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Tag Archives: English folk music
Flying Tomatoes’ Rags to Racenicas, Atomic City Rhythm Rascals’ Atomic City Rhythm Rascals, Birol Topaloglu’s Aravani, Mukka’s Skip Lizard, Pinewoods Band’s South by Southeast, and Stömp’s Machine Without Horses
One cannot live by English and Celtic music alone, so there needs to be music outside those traditions that’s interesting too. For me, that music is that of the Central European region. And what I like best is the dance … Continue reading
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Steeleye Span: A Career Retrospective 1970-2000
Hark The Village Wait (RCA, 1970) Please To See the King (B&C, 1971) Ten Man Mop, or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again (Pegasus, 1971) Below the Salt (Chrysalis, 1972) Parcel of Rogues (Chrysalis, 1973) Now We Are Six (Chrysalis, 1974) … Continue reading
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Brian Peters’ Different Tongues
Singers of traditional English songs are born to it, not made, so therefore some do it better than others. Listening to Brian Peters on Different Tongues, I somehow got the distinct feeling that Brian has got a lot more to … Continue reading
Various artists’ Song of the Green Linnet
It must be something to have a catalog of musical gems at your fingertips, and the wit to pick some of the best material from the hoard, because that’s exactly what we find on this collection. The cynic probably thinks … Continue reading
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Kathryn Tickell’s The Kathryn Tickell Band, and Borderlands
Kathryn Tickell has made a name for herself as well as working tirelessly to promote her instruments, the Northumbrian smallpipes. Coming from a family of musicians, she has extended her work into academia through her position at Newcastle University as … Continue reading
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Kathryn Tickell’s The Gathering
Kathryn Tickell, Northumbrian piper and fiddler. Surely you don’t need to known anything else in order to tell Stephanie at Musikfolk that you want this CD, but I suppose you’ll make me tell the tale of this CD anyway. Tickell’s … Continue reading
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Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical’s Ensemble Mystical
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. I was looking forward to reviewing this CD with an anticipation I usually reserve for live gigs. The reason – a carnyx is actually played on it! And I’ve wanted to hear this elusive … Continue reading
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Breton music omnibus: A grab bag of CDs from Keltia Musique
Bagad Kemper’s Hep Diskrog (Keltia Musique, 2002) Skolvan’s Chenchet’n eus an amzer (Keltia Musique, 2000) Skolvan’s Kerzh Ba’n’ Dans (Keltia Musique,1991) Skolvan’s Swing & Tears (Keltia Musique, 1994) Storvan’s An Deiziou Kaer (Keltia Musique, 1996) Storvan’s Digor ‘N Abadenn (Join … Continue reading
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Cross o’th Hands’ Handmade and Maidens Prayer
Cross o’th Hands (COTH) is a four piece group from the Derbyshire area in central England. They have been playing together since 1994. The lineup is the same as when they started: Sarah Matthews, fiddle and mandola; Doug Eunson, melodeons; … Continue reading
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Harry Cox’s What Will Become Of England?
This CD is a collector’s item in two senses. First, it stems from the work of one of the most dedicated collectors of traditional music who ever lived. The sessions were recorded in London and in Norfolk, England during the … Continue reading