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Eliza Carthy
Anglicana (Topic 539)
17.99
Listen:
Worcester City
Just as the Tide Was Flowing
Pretty Ploughboy
An elegant return to form for Ms Carthy, after her spotty-at-best major label journey. Back to the roots, which is not to say backwards, she goes to the old sources and comes out with as fresh a recreation of the folk tradition as she has done to date. HIGHLY recommended. - CF
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| "her most majestic and mature solo album yet" - fROOTS (read the full review) |
The record label says:
Eliza Carthy presents a great new traditional album re-affirming her as one of the most important artists of her generation. As the title suggests, Anglicana is an expression of Englishness (as Eliza feels it), "with people who were around at the time, no border checkpoints, nobody pushed out, just what it is".
It is built on the solid foundations of the traditional music of the country of her birth. There is no question that she has absorbed much of the great qualities of that tradition, but she is not interested in producing pastiche or sterile re-construction. She is one of the few people who can take this wonderful music and perform it in a totally convincing contemporary style - both true to its sources and firmly relevant to today's values. This is what traditional music in the twenty-first century is all about!
You can't beat a backing band like this one!
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