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The Albion Christmas Band: Snow on Snow
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Snow on Snow Talking Elephant TECD135 (CD, UK, November 10, 2008) |
One more from the Albion Christmas Cottage Industry… The quality is as good as ever though.
Recorded at Rooksmere Studios, Overstone, Northamtonshire;
Recorded and produced by Mark Hutchinson;
Design by Malcolm Holmes
Musicians
Kellie While, vocals, acoustic guitar, shaker;
Simon Care, spoken words, melodeon, concertina, percussion;
Ashley Hutchings, vocals, spoken words, electric bass guitar;
Simon Nicol, vocals, spoken words, acoustic guitars, banjo
With guests:
Guy Fletcher, violin, mandolin, drums, percussion;
David Tobin, cornamuse, recorder;
Mark Hutchinson, keyboards, percussion
Tracks
- The Seven Joys of Mary (3.48)
- The Month of January (4.10)
- Much Wenlock (0.32)
- Border Morrid Medley (4.08)
- Comfort and Joy (4.51)
- The Thames Frozen Over (2.12)
- Humours upon the Ice (4.36)
- The Adderbury Wassail (2.39)
- Sleet (0.47)
- The Frozen Man (4.09)
- The Cherry Tree Carol (3.57)
- Winter (1.42)
- In the Bleak Midwinter (4.21)
- The Shepherd's Carol (0.57)
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1.42)
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing (3.19)
- I Love This Time of Year the Best (4.06)
- Well, So That Is That (1.21)
- The January Man (4.11)
All tracks trad. arr. The Albion Christmas Band, except
Track 3 a description of Wales Border Morris;
Track 5 Clive Gregson;
Track 6 excerpt from Orlando by Virginia Woolf;
Track 7 anon., Ashley Hutchings, Simon Care, Simon Nicol;
Track 9 poem by Norman MacCaig;
Track 10 James Taylor;
Track 12 poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins;
Track 13 C. Rosetti / Gustav Holst arr. The Albion Christmas Band;
Track 14 poem by Norman Nicholson;
Track 15 anon. arr. Simon Care;
Track 16 Charles Wesley arr. The Albion Christmas Band;
Track 17 Ashley Hutchings, Kelly While, Simon Nicol;
Track 18 excerpt from a poem by W.H. Auden;
Track 19 Dave Goulder