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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5099950386727 Label: Real World Manufacturer: Real World Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Real World Release Date: October 15, 2007 Studio: Real World Sales Rank: 300
Rating: - Where's my arran sweater?
I think this is probably a great album and certainly a sterling effort to bring together a range of influences both old and new to fuse a new UK folk perspective. The first talking bit sounds like Stanley Unwin on that Small faces album though and it can get just a little bit self indulgent - Hopefully like me though it will inspire you to re look at the rich heritage of traditional music this country has to offer
Rating: - disappointed
Definitely a Curate's egg of a recording - good in parts. The first track (spoken) is excellent as are some of the more traditionally done tracks e.g John Barleycorn, and Hard Times of Old England with current day hard times is brilliant. I was looking forward to hearing a different version of Tam Lyn (one of my favourite songs) but RAP!!!! come on! an abomination.
Rating: - Where the heart is
Dear Georgina,
What a wonderful idea of Nomasters and yourself to issue 'our' Imagined Village cd. I say 'our' right away, because the homeliness, the recognition and the heart-warming tunes are sufficient to make the most hardened of man/woman melt away on (soft) impact.
As you most surely know (and as much as Barry, Jim and Lester do) there is that poem of Rupert Brooke's that says that, wherever a British soldier might find his final resting-place, there is that secure spot 'that is ... Read More
Rating: - Almost moved to tears, wonderful
I can't quite work out why i was almost moved to tears by this album, then I listened to 'Hard times in Old England' and thought "John Peel would have loved this..." and it pushed me over the edge...
This album has profoundly affected the way i think about not just English Folk music but Englishness in general: I like folk, but in small doses (and definitely without my finger in my ear!) and I also like house, rock, drum and bass, reggae, and this album made me think these days bands like Fairport ... Read More
Rating: - Eddie Reader, but even worse !
....warbling, affected, ill-considered, jarringly incompatible ingredients.... total rubbish.
Except for Bob (?) Coppers' little spoken word section; for which the only star.
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