Eliza Carthy - Anglicana
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Artist: Eliza CarthyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2002-10-28
Music Label: Topic Records
Soundtracks:
- Worcester City
- Just As The Tide Was Flowing
- Limbo
- Little Gypsy Girl
- No Man's Jig + Hanoverian Dance + Three Jolly Sheepskins
- Pretty Ploughboy
- Bold Privateer
- Dr Mcmbe
- In London So Fair
- Willow Tree
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Music Review: A new genre
Rating: 4 Stars
Eliza Carthy boldly lays claim to a new genre with the inspired title of this beautiful album. It fits her music perfectly and needs no further explanation. Whereas she has in the past ironically sounded more dated when occasionally attempting more modern and experimental musical forms, her exploration of traditional material invariably sounds fresh and forward looking, and here she is again helped by a varied and fine collection of mostly acoustic musicians.
Her affecting version of the old favourite Just As The Tide Was Flowing, revived by Shirley Collins with the Albion Band and by the American group 10,000 Maniacs amongst others, takes on an altogether more sombre and elegant timbre in its new reinvention, whilst many of the songs have been drawn from collections and archives, some brought to her by her father Martin Carthy, or Dr MCMBE, as an instrumental piece dedicated to him and on which he plays guitar is titled. Worcester City and Pretty Plowboy are two other highlights which seem to define what Eliza Carthy is all about. Although one of the themes of the album is Englishness there are, as she says, no border controls and one of the songs, In London So Fair, comes from the Irish singer Mary Ann Carolan, while some of the album was recorded in Edinburgh.
In London So Fair was recorded on a Steinway, Eliza having switched from fiddle for the occasion, in a living room overlooking the sea, and you can almost hear the ocean in the atmosphere, so vivid is the recording (the sea being another of the main album themes). The lighthearted and jazz-tinted Willow Tree closes the album with a hint of new directions to come. A well balanced and mature album, and reassuring for the future of British folk music
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This is Eliza Carthy's first solo recording in several years and it focuses on her love of traditional and acoustic music. A great believer in the power of live music, Eliza wanted to create an album with the sound and feel of live music without the studio tricks of many modern recordings. She succeeds triumphantly, creating an album of uncompromising power and beauty that firmly establishes her as one of the most important folk artists of her generation.Folk CDs
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