The Imagined Village
The Imagined Village
Nearly 200 albums later, Real World Records is looking back over its rich back catalogue as it launches a new initiative - Real World Gold.
The Imagined Village will be re released as part of the Real World Gold collection on the 21st May 2012.
If you think you know about English folk music, think again!
The Imagined Village, the brainchild of producer and musician Simon Emmerson, has recast age old traditions in the shape of the twentyfirst century.
A daring mix of ancient and modern, The Imagined Village fuses fiddles and squeezebox with dub beats and sitars. To do so it has gathered an extraorinary array of talent: Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Sheila Chandra, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller, Tunng, Transglobal Underground and Benjamin Zephaniah among others.
Emmerson has a history of ground-breaking fusions, as founder of jazz-soul group Working Week and The Afro Celt Sound System, and as a Grammy-nominated producer of world acts like Manu Dibango and Baba Maal. After travelling the world I thought it was time explore my own roots, he says Simon, to look at the earth under my feet.
The resulting album is arguably the most ambitious re-invention of the English folk tradition since Fairport Conventions Liege and Lief back in 1969. Favourites like John Barleycorn and Cold Hailey Rainy Night are given radical new soundscapes, the magical ballad Tam Lyn is retold as a tale of urban clubland amid a parade of great voices and wonderful playing. Paul Weller duets with Martin Carthy and Tunng bring their quirky inventive young folk sound while Sheila Chandra sings a heart-breaking ballad with beauty and elegance.
Martin Carthy: "The only harm you can do to traditional music is not to play it or sing it."
Billy Bragg: "In any village theres a meeting between the custodians of the past and the architects of the future, and The Imagined Village reflects just that"
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The Imagined Village (Real World Gold)
CDNearly 200 albums later, Real World Records is looking back over its rich back catalogue as it launches a new initiative - Real World Gold.
The Imagined Village will be re released as part of the Real World Gold collection on the 21st May 2012.play 'Ouses, 'Ouses, 'Ouses John Copper and Sheila Chandra with Simon Emmerson 6m 17s play John Barleycorn Paul Weller, Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy 5m 42s play Tam Lyn Retold Benjamin Zephaniah and Eliza Carthy with Trans-Global Underground and Simon Emmerson 9m 20s play Pilsdon Pen The Village Band 5m 17s play Hard Times of Old England Retold Billy Bragg and The Young Coppers with Eliza Carthy and Simon Emmerson 5m 37s play Sloe on the Uptake Tiger Moth 3m 31s play Death And The Maiden Retold Tunng 3m 48s play Cold Haily Rainy Night Chris Wood, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy and The Young Coppers with Trans-Global Underground 6m 10s play The Welcome Sailor Sheila Chandra and Chris Wood 5m 45s play Acres Of Ground Eliza Carthy 4m 46s play Kit Whites I & II The Gloworms 4m 45s Nearly 200 albums later, Real World Records is looking back over its rich back catalogue as it launches a new initiative - Real World Gold.
The Imagined Village will be re released as part of the Real World Gold collection on the 21st May 2012. -
The Imagined Village
Digital- The Imagined Village - All 11 Tracks - Apple Lossless
- play 'Ouses, 'Ouses, 'Ouses
- play John Barleycorn
- play Tam Lyn Retold
- play Death And The Maiden Retold
- play Cold Haily Rainy Night
- play The Welcome Sailor
- play Acres Of Ground
- play Pilsdon Pen
- play Hard Times of Old England Retold
- play Kit Whites I & II
- play Sloe on the Uptake
- The Imagined Village - All 11 Tracks - 320k MP3
- play 'Ouses, 'Ouses, 'Ouses
- play John Barleycorn
- play Tam Lyn Retold
- play Death And The Maiden Retold
- play Cold Haily Rainy Night
- play The Welcome Sailor
- play Acres Of Ground
- play Pilsdon Pen
- play Hard Times of Old England Retold
- play Kit Whites I & II
- play Sloe on the Uptake
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