From Here: English Folk Field Recordings CD - LTD SIGNED edition
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
We have a handful of these signed by many of the artists who performed at the Café Oto launch in March 2017. Each one is unique!
CD with foldout map. Oversized card wallet complete with 120gsm uncoated map/poster, with sleeve notes by each artist.
Includes unlimited streaming of From Here: English Folk Field Recordings
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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From Here: English Folk Field Recordings Vinyl LP - LTD SIGNED edition
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
We have a handful of these signed by many of the artists who performed at the Café Oto launch in March 2017. Each one is unique! Pressed on heavyweight vinyl, sleevenotes on colour inner.
Includes unlimited streaming of From Here: English Folk Field Recordings
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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180g 12" vinyl with printed inner sleeve
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited to 500 and on heavyweight vinyl.
Includes unlimited streaming of From Here: English Folk Field Recordings
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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"I've been going back on old repertoire, just having a look. I've recently started doing it again. I learnt it in the 70s. One of the first times I did it was at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. I mean I'd learned it, worked it out, cos there's not that many verses and I'd seen it in the book, I squeezed out another couple of verses, and then put a last verse in, which is what she sang but it doesn't tell the actual story, but it says what the story should have been, you know. I don't care, I'll tell anybody - it's not a secret, I change songs. Marina Russell. It was a name that kept coming up - astonishing. She had a fabulous repertoire, the only English person who ever had that song, and she only sang three verses, the bugger, she only gave collectors fragments. She had all sorts of songs…, I wish someone had recorded her I really do.
Around that time I did this West Country arts centres tour, and one of the gigs was at Weymouth Arts Centre, so I thought, I'll do a few of her songs. I put this little cluster of songs together, the Bedmaking, Sovay, A Jug of This, Ye Mariners All. I announced it: "This is a woman who lived in Upwey which is a suburb of Weymouth now, and her name was Marina Russell. And there was this squeal, right up in that corner: "That's my grandma!" And an old person said it. And I said, really? It's your Grandma, that's really interesting! "No it's not, we thought she was mad!" (laughs). Well that squashed that one straight away, you think you've made a big discovery…Then I found out, when I sang it at Philidelphia, I was doing a workshop with Frankie Armstrong, and she was singing it as well, she said. I didn't know anyone else sang that. [After recording] There's nothing like the first take. It was exactly what I wanted."
Stick In The Wheel’s work is rooted in traditional music and song, informed by the modern electronic music that grew out of
their hybrid East London heritage.
“SITW grab hold of folk music with both hands, dragging it through the 21st century city with no fear they might somehow break it.” THE QUIETUS
“The most important band in the current British folk scene” ELE-KING MAGAZINE, JAPAN...more
Traditional folk music and field recordings meld into fascinating long-form sound collages on the new LP from Shovel Dance Collective. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 6, 2022