Strong women, struggle and social disruptions have always been at the centre of Matt Page's texts. While the debut "Lost And Gone Forever" (2011) was based on the Oscar-winning documentary "Harlan Country, USA" about a miners' strike in Kentucky in 1976 (Page also told the story of his grandparents here), the singer/guitarist on his successor "Heretics" (2014) was mainly concerned with the suffragettes movement at the beginning of the 20th century, which finally led to the implementation of women's suffrage in the USA and Great Britain. Matt Page is always particularly interested in the respective motifs, the contradictions and the social processes that are set in motion. And so "Beneath The Dark Wide Sky" fits seamlessly into this complex of themes.
The third album of the trio from Lexington, Kentucky, was inspired by the work of documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, who became immortal especially with her photographs during the Great Depression. The pictures from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s show the misery and poverty of American migrant workers and their families. Lange believed in the power of photography and in being able to focus her work on issues of social justice and environmental destruction...
