The Imagined Village with free EP
The Imagined Village
Free EP with this CD! This EP brings you a preview track from the full length album (released on October 1st 2007) and three exclusive mixes only available on this special edition.
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."
Simon Emmerson: "Englishness is the final frontier of world music."
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"
Add To Basketmore info£9.82The Imagined Village - CDplay '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 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 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 Kit Whites I & II The Gloworms 4m 45s play Sloe on the Uptake Tiger Moth 3m 31s
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