Every two weeks the
Folk
And
International
Roots Album Club votes for an album that they will listen to and discuss in the coming weeks.
Anyone can vote in this poll, but if you vote, please follow through and be ready to discuss whichever album wins the poll.
Here we are again, back after the break, with some fresh albums to consider :-
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Originally Posted by fazstp
June Tabor - Ashore (2011)
Newer release from a prolific English folky.
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Originally Posted by fazstp
On the international side this is a rather peaceful diversion from Armenia featuring the duduk (a traditional reed woodwind). Not particularly ground breaking but a kind of melancholy beauty.
Songs From a World Apart - Lévon Minassian and Armand Amar.
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Originally Posted by Jack Pat
Oh, I'll go ahead and nominate Dark Country Magic by Big Blood. It's an incredibly catchy, well-written psychedelic folk album with experimental tendencies.
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Solar Shears by Shooglenifty (2001)
Shooglenifty do more than just add an electronic gloss to Celtic-sounding music, they create a convincing marriage of techno and traditional elements to produce “hypno-folkadelic” or “acid-croft” music. Play it loud to hear all the delicious details, and to understand why this band chose, for their name, a Scottish word that means “shake or agitate”.
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Originally Posted by fazstp
Bourbon & Rosewater by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Jerry Douglas
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^ According to fazstp, MB`s very own V.M.Bhatt expert, this album is better than his more publicised collaboration with Ry Cooder, "A Meeting By The River" .
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Fly,Fly, My Sadness by Huun-Huur-Tu (1996)
This starkly beautiful album is not for the faint-hearted. Uplifting and uncompromising, you have to hear it to believe it.
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Although it`s a bit late arriving, there`s still plenty of time to cast a vote in this poll before it closes!
