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Folk Songs II
''Folk Songs II'' is an album by the Big Eyes Family Players & Friends, released in 2012 on Static Caravan Recordings. It is the follow-up to the 2009 album '' Folk Songs'' by James Yorkston and the Big Eyes Family Players. Background Following the success of the first ''Folk Songs'' album and tour, and at a loss for what to do next, Yorkston suggested to the Big Eyes Family Players leader James Green that he make a sequel. Green then invited some of his favourite singers to choose songs and he would provide the music. A limited edition version of the album features a bonus CD entitled ''The Meersbrook Manor Sessions'', which contains three additional tracks. Critical reception The album received positive reviews from the music press. Writing in The Guardian, Robin Denselow commented on the "even more adventurous, often sprawling arrangements", compared to the first album, and called it "A strange, compelling set." Folk Radio UK said, "The Big Eyes Family Players have proven yet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Eyes Family Players
The Big Eyes Family Players / Big Eyes Family are a group from Sheffield, UK, formed in 1999 by multi-instrumentalist James Green. They initially recorded experimental music under the name Big Eyes, but in 2006 they changed their name and began to venture more into folk and traditional music. They are best known for two albums of traditional material: ''Folk Songs'', which they released in collaboration with the Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston on Domino Records in 2009; and the follow-up, '' Folk Songs II'', featuring a variety of guest vocalists and released on Static Caravan Recordings in 2012. Formation and early recordings as Big Eyes Multi-instrumentalist James Green formed Big Eyes in Sheffield in 1999 as a solo experiment, making experimental instrumental music. Under this name, and with a rotating line up of other musicians, notably guitarist David Jaycock, he released the albums ''Big Eyes Songs'' (2000), ''Clumsy Music'' (2001), ''Love Is Gone Mad'' (2002) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Static Caravan Recordings
Static Caravan Recordings is an independent record label based in the North West of England, whose artist releases include singles and albums by Darren Hayman, the Hornblower Brothers, Hannah Peel, Erland & the Carnival, Shady Bard, the Yellow Moon Band, Tunng, Peter Astor, Magnetophone, Fieldhead, Serafina Steer, Matters, The Memory Band, FortDax and Boat To Row. The label focuses mainly on alt-folk and indie music. The label has a record shop, Static Records, located in Wigan town centre. See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, b ... External linksOfficial site British independent record labels Alternative rock record labels {{UK-record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Songs (James Yorkston Album)
''Folk Songs'' is a 2009 album by the Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston in collaboration with the Big Eyes Family Players. As the title suggests, all of the tracks are traditional British and Irish folk songs (along with one from Galicia, Spain). Many of them are versions of songs recorded by singers in the 1960s British folk revival, such as Nic Jones, Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins. Critical reception The album received generally positive reviews from the music press. Writing in ''The Guardian'', Robin Denselow called it, "One of the more intriguing folk albums of the summer", commenting, "It's an album of strong songs, and may well prompt a new audience to check out the earlier recordings." The website The Quietus said the album was, "a fine tribute to the folk tradition of a musician taking long established songs, putting his own mark on the tested formulas and then passing them on for consumption by whoever encounters them along the road." Track listing #"Hills of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Yorkston
James Yorkston (born James Patrick Yorkston Wright; 21 December 1971) is a Scottish folk musician, singer-songwriter and author from the village of Kingsbarns, Fife. He has been releasing music since 2001. As well as recording as a solo artist, he has released music with his backing band the Athletes, as part of the Fence Collective, and as a member of the trio Yorkston/Thorne/Khan. He has also written fiction and non-fiction books. Influences and early years A native of Fife, James Yorkston was an integral early member of the Fence Collective, a collaborative group of musicians including King Creosote, The Aliens, KT Tunstall, The Beta Band and The Pictish Trail. Yorkston is primarily a singer-songwriter, although he also tackles a variety of traditional songs, learned from singers such as Anne Briggs, Dick Gaughan, Nic Jones, Martin Carthy, Lal Waterson, John Strachan and Adrian Crowley. His quoted main influences are Anne Briggs, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Michael Hurley, Can an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Denselow
Robin Denselow is a British writer, journalist, and broadcaster. Education Denselow was educated at Leighton Park School, a boys' Quaker boarding independent school (now co-educational) in Reading, Berkshire, followed by New College, Oxford, where he studied English. Life and career After a student-trip to India with COMEX, the Commonwealth Expedition in 1965, Denselow first joined the BBC African Service as a producer and reporter working on current affairs programmes. In 1980, when BBC Two's flagship news programme ''Newsnight'' started, he became a reporter for them. Denselow has reported from all over the world but with a particular interest in Africa, South America and the Middle East. His report on Gulf War syndrome in 1993 won the International TV Programming Award at the New York Television Festival. As well as reporting on current affairs, Denselow has written extensively on world music and folk music for ''The Guardian'' newspaper and other publications. By 1989, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Radio UK
Folk Radio UK, is an online Independent Music Journal covering a broad range of Folk music, Global music, Independent music, American Primitive Guitar, Drone Music and other alternative offerings. Established in 2004 by Alex Gallacher. the website features Album Reviews, News, Live Reviews and Interviews. They are based in Somerset, but supported by a team of reviewers and journalists that include Robin Denselow. Articles are supplemented by mixes and shows. These include the Folk Show; a more "leftfield and alternative" Lost in Transmission series, and the experimental KLOF series. A specialist folk music channel was launched on Deezer Deezer is a French online music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels, as well as podcasts on various devices online or offline. Created in Paris, Deezer currently has 90 million licensed tracks in i ... in 2012 which was curated by Folk Radio UK's Editor. References External links Official w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Crowley
Adrian Crowley is a singer, composer, songwriter, lyricist from Galway, based in Dublin and was born in Sliema, Malta. Crowley has released eight albums to date, with his debut ''A Strange Kind'' arriving in 1999. He followed this with ''When You Are Here You Are Family'' (2002), ''A Northern Country'' (2004), '' Long Distance Swimmer'' (2007), ''Season of the Sparks'' (2009) and "I See Three Birds Flying" (2012) In a 2005 ''Rolling Stone'' interview, Ryan Adams cited Crowley when asked "Who's the best songwriter that no one's heard of". ''The Irish Times'' placed this artist at number eight in a list of "The 50 Best Irish Acts Right Now" published in April 2009. Crowley has won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year on one occasion for ''Season of the Sparks'' and been nominated on two another occasion for ''Long Distance Swimmer'' and "I See Tree Birds Flying". Early life Crowley is from a multicultural background, (his father is Irish and mother is Maltese) He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hampton
Mary Hampton is a folk singer, songwriter, accordionist and guitarist from Brighton, England. Hampton has released two self-produced CD-Rs, ''Book One'' (2006) and ''Book Two'' (2007), containing a mix of original and traditional songs. In 2008 she released ''My Mother's Children'', her first commercially available album, on Navigator Records. The album has been described as "a sparse collection of her own songs, which recline with shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness" and as "songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity...potent and enchanting". In addition, Hampton contributed vocals to ''Rough Music'', a 2005 album by Eliza Carthy, and sang on ''Blow It Up, Burn It Down, Kick It 'Til It Bleeds'', a 2006 album by Stereolab side project Imitation Electric Piano. Hampton appeared at the 2008 Green Man Festival. One review described her set was described as "genuinely memorable".Jeanette Leech & Richard S Jones, ''Shindig!'', Nov-Dec 2008, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharron Kraus
Sharron Kraus is an English singer, songwriter and musician with strong ties to the US. Kraus was born in New York but grew up in Leicester, England. She has lived in Philadelphia and collaborated with American musicians, including Meg Baird, Helena Espvall, Christian Kiefer, Tara Burke (Fursaxa), and Gillian Chadwick (Ex Reverie) . Kraus has been compared to 1970s English folk singers such as Shirley Collins and Anne Briggs and heralded as one of the strongest voices in English contemporary folk. She has recorded a collection of traditional folk songs, ''Leaves From Off the Tree'', with Meg Baird and Helena Espvall of Philadelphia psych folk band Espers (band), Espers, but the majority of her work is self-authored, influenced by English and Appalachian folk song, but with its own distinctive voice. Musically Kraus' work is described as 'spine-tingling' 'spooky' and 'the sound of England and its enchanted gardens'.Jan Arne-Sohns“The Fox's Wedding Review” ''Foxy Digitalis'' Kr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alasdair Roberts (musician)
Alasdair Roberts (born 8 August 1977) is a Scottish folk musician. He released a number of albums under the name Appendix Out and, following the 2001 album ''The Night Is Advancing'', under his own name. Roberts is also known for his frequent collaborations with other musicians and writers, as well as for being a member of the folk supergroup The Furrow Collective. Early life Roberts was born in Swabia, Germany, the son of former folk guitarist (and partner of Dougie MacLean) Alan Roberts (1946–2001) and his German wife Annegret. He has two sisters. He was raised in Kilmahog, a hamlet close to the small town of Callander, near Stirling in central Scotland, where he started playing the guitar and writing music. He has long been based in Glasgow. Appendix Out In 1994 Alasdair Roberts formed Appendix Out with school friends Dave Elcock and Kenny McBride and started playing small venues. Roberts was also a classmate of Ladytron's Helen Marnie. While attending a Will Oldham conce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
