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Tim van Eyken & Robert Harbron
One Sunday Afternoon
$17.99
Two rising stars of the acoustic music scene come together in an album that combines consummate musicianship with an instinctive feel for traditional material. The deftly-played instrumental sets draw on English, French and Swedish roots, while the songs are enriched by Tim's voice - warm, assured and full of character.
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Listen:
Sussex Waltz
Frenchmen in the Moon
Ye Mariners
Tim van Eyken, melodeon, vocals Winner of the 1998 BBC Young Folk Award, Tim also performs as a solo artist as well as working with Waterson:Carthy, Dr Faustus and the Tim van Eyken Quartet travelling as far afield as the Gulf, the USA, New Zealand and Hong Kong. His debut album, New Boots, was released in 1998.
Robert Harbron, concertina, guitar, harmony vocals Robert first came to prominence as a concertina player in the finals of the BBC Radio Two Young Traditional Award. Since then he has performed widely in Great Britain, and toured in Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Canada and the United States. He has received critical acclaim for his work with Dr Faustus, 6 FOOT 3, Chris Wood, and Chip Taylor.
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'No wild fusions here, just well played renditions of traditional ballads and tunes by a young English duo. Tim Van Eyken sings and plays melodeon while Harbron plays concertina and guitar and sings harmony vocals. The duo has a great rapport; melodeon and concertina interweave nicely on several of the instrumental selections and the vocal blend on "Bold Riley" is perfect.'
-Sing Out! (USA)
'The album will delight not only concertina and melodeon players but also the rest of us... LUSCIOUS' -The Living Tradition 'What a delicious album, with two of our finest taking us on a tour of some simply gorgeous Swedish, French, Quebecois and English tunes, with four songs thrown in for good measure. The influences are not hard to recognise but that in no way detracts from the musicianship of Tim's accordion playing and Rob's concertina, or their, often understated, arrangements, which combine to particularly good effect on the Swedish numbers. The song, 'Det Stod en Jungfru' is a cracker, followed by a polska that I can't get out of my head. Rob has created some fine tunes here - 'Poynton', 'Wedding Tune', all with wonderful rhythms... This is definitely a CD to be played over and over.' -Taplas |
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