The Peel

The Peel is an instrumental trio featuring Lucy Schwallie (fiddle), Adam Fuller (banjo), and David Colagiovanni (guitar). Formed in Athens, Ohio, in 2021, The Peel explores elements of folk, chamber, drone, avant-garde, and old-time music.

Available on vinyl and digital via Sun Cru and on streaming services.

Warm, gracious, historical, and avant-garde, The Peel are a beacon of art and joy, a trio in concert as much with each other as with their devoted listeners. You’ve got Lucy Schwallie on fiddle, Adam Fuller on banjo, and David Colagiovanni on guitar. There’s also Brian Koscho recording and producing. These are attentive practitioners working in a cross-genre space of old-time, classical, drone, and American primitive, among others. Unfurling like a timeless frond in the sparkling night of this musical cosmos is The Peel’s extraordinary new album, In the Ferns.

In the Ferns, the group’s third release, is a phenomenal work of art that embodies a potent blend of trad folk textures, avant-garde experimentation, and classical techniques. It’s a music that springs from a deep well of inner life, reaching up to unveil hidden shades of the world around us, stirring fresh feelings of water, woods, community, and home. In the Ferns is a shifting surface dappled with shadow and sunlight, a place where you can rest your mind awhile, maybe dance a few steps, and enjoy life with those you love.

There are many points of entry to this record. Whether you’re into classical minimalism, film music, traditional music, or even choreography, In the Ferns is a rich and rewarding album filled with surprise elegance and earthy invocations. — Sun Cru

“Banjo, fiddle, and guitar blend in cadenced, euphonic layers that occasionally dip into moments of arrhythmia — never aimless, just attuned to whatever the song asks for next. The album’s strength lies in this kind of dynamic restraint: its ability to move seamlessly from soft sighs to spirited murmurs, from rhythmic play to melodic aches, always in tune with something larger than itself.” ​— Emily Votaw, WOUB Public Media

Older Recordings

Music for Teacups – 7″ vinyl record

Limited edition of 100. Signed, Hand screen printed cover – silver on black – 45rpm 7″ vinyl record (small hole) in heavy plastic sleeve with the sounds of Music for Teacups by Haviland and Colagiovanni. Over two years of work collected into this 7 minute recording. Mastered by David McConnell at Thread Audio in Raleigh, NC. Each record comes with a code to watch the full version of Music for Teacups online.

Music for Teacups Artist Book and 7″ vinyl record

Limited edition of 50. 25 ft laser cut, hand assembled accordion book with 7″ vinyl record in custom museum board etched sleeve. Comes in hand sewn black felt lined box with label. Signed and numbered. Produced during our residency at Small Craft Advisory Press in Tallahassee, FL 2012.

Landscape for Five Prepared Chord Organs

The Shredder Sessions

A project presented at LUMP with generous support from SiteWorkNC and Hopscotch Music Festival. During the annual Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC musicians from the Hopscotch Festival line-up participated in improvisational recording sessions with my kinetic sound sculpture. Audio recording was done on site by Thread Audio

Lee Noble, David Colagiovanni

Ben Asbury, Brian Kinkade, David Colagiovanni:

Mac Mcaughan, Charles Chace, David Mcconnell, David Colagiovanni: