I'm sorry, I know I've picked this song for various hashtags on a fairly regular basis - but if the #TuneTuesday theme is songs that give you #goosebumps, then I can't possibly overlook it. It's a piece that gives me goosebumps upon goosebumps.
The Unthanks - Mount the Air (live, with the eleven-piece band they were touring with at the time) https://youtu.be/9atpx-u1juI
Here’s a cracking Jean Blanchard tune I can’t believe I don’t remember before hearing it on Mel’s #MelodeonMonday yesterday so I have to share for #TuneswapTuesday - Boite a Frissons
Talking of new songs, I also came across a collaboration between Saltatio Mortis and Faun. The song is called "Schwarzer Strand", and is absolutely superb.
...and there is bagpipes. 😃
Sorry, no links. I've only found it on that video site owned by Google.
Most of my newest songs have been written on the banjo and my next release will have this extraordinary instrument at its core. While I haven’t thrown my fingerpicks away, playing skin on string has opened my ears and mind to what the banjo can bring to my music. Playing an open backed banjo has connected me like never before as my own body becomes part of the sound.
I can't help but still love In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel but I totally understand if a normal person listened to that album on your recommendation and their first impulse is to either beat you up and get a restraining order. #indierock#90s#folk
Ruth Theodore Signs To Righteous Babe Records, Shares "Hold On Me"
British alt-folk artist Ruth Theodore today announces her signing to Righteous Babe Records and shares the bittersweet new single “Hold On Me”. Alongside this single, Theodore also announces her upcoming album I Am I Am, which will be released on May 3rd. Preorder now available here. #folk#ruththeodore#righteousbabe#anidifranco#pop
I heard this and thought “Gallopede” but apparently this called “Knife’s Edge” except that if you search for that you find another tune instead… so I don’t know what I’m sharing this #TuneswapTuesday except that it is early #Blowzabella.
ZOMBIE, Dolores O'Riordan
I DON'T KNOW ALL THE WORDS, Matthew Legare/trad
GRANIA, Brian Leo
SISTER SINEAD, Kris Kristofferson
LUCY ON THE LINE, Tim Griffin
JOAN, Heather Dale/Ben Deschamps
DR. JOAN, me/Dale/Deschamps
MYSTIC LIPSTICK, Jimmy MacCarthy
ARCHETYPE CAFÉ, Talis Kimberley
Sad news for Scottish folk music, to hear Ian Green has died.
So much of Scottish folk from the past four decades (and before) is on Greentrax, from Shooglenifty to Dick Gaughan to archives from the School of Scottish Studies - Ian's label surely is the 'undisputed leader in its field'.
Another fine folk tune to share today. This one by Sean McKenna of the Mary Wallopers, called The Idler. Reminds me of the old Bum on the Rods poem you hear in a lot of wobbly circles.
"Don't blame the idler who sits on the corner,
Sits on a corner, a cup in their hand.
But blame the idler who owns the apartments,
Built by his cronies on nicked public lands."
Al Bilali Soudan are griots from the Tombouctou (Timbuktu) region of Mali. This is a family orchestra of fathers and sons, uncles and cousins, led by Abellow Yattara, a master of the tehardent – the Tamasheq word for the three-stringed n’goni.
Yattara has been a prominent figure for over 40 years. He played on Ali Farka Touré‘s first cassette recordings and with Orchestre de Tombouctou in the 70s.
Led by Abellaw Yattara, the group on this recording includes his uncle Aboubacrine Yattara and their sons Mohamed Ag Abellaw and Tchiale Ag Aboubacrine and Hamadoun Guindo sitting in on the Tombouctou album tracks.
This is traditional music played on traditional instruments, tehardent / ngoni / guitar and percussion / calabash. In performance, the sound of the stringed instruments is compressed to create an electric, dynamic sound. Their repertoire is based on traditional themes within which they improvise and adapt.
The Yattaras can be heard on many recordings from Mali. Family members are featured on some of the earliest recorded examples of music from Timbuktu. Today, Al Bilali Soudan can be heard frequently at celebrations and festivals in Timbuktu.
Anyone on here listen to folk music? Sometime pre-2020, my spouse and I heard a song played live (at Falconridge Folk Festival, if that's helpful), the chorus of which went:
"Every day, every day, I choose you."
Except that the final iteration was, "Every day, every day, you choose me."
This song came up again tonight. Would love to find the song again, if anyone knows it. #folkmusic#music#folk