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Folk, singer-songwriter.

A moving tribute to Albion’s troubled soul. Disquiet pervades the folk singer’s self-written fourth album, with romantic love and awe of nature holding out against ecological collapse

Over the past dozen years, no one has tended the sacred flame of folk song more assiduously than London’s Sam Lee. Singer, promoter, wilderness expert (he trained with Ray Mears), Lee’s principal mission has been “finding new soundworlds for old songs”, many of them learned at the hearths of the travelling community. His third album, 2020’s Old Wow, expanded the musical palette, setting Lee’s rich voice to innovative arrangements by Bernard Butler, the former Suede guitarist turned mature polymath.

songdreaming is more ambitious still. The songs are Lee’s own, their singer cast as a shamanic figure wandering through landscapes hymned in folk song and poetry but now facing ecological collapse. Opener Bushes and Briars begins as a leisurely search for birdsong that is gradually subsumed by a menacing churn of violin, piano, guitar and discordant noise. Numbers that start as languorous, melodic balladry mutate into chasms of space noise or, in the case of Meeting Is a Pleasant Place, thunderous defiance given voice by a trans choir, Trans Voices. Romantic love and awe of nature prove inseparable: “Be soft like green moss, be free,” urges Lee. The record’s dreamlike atmosphere is seductive and disquieting; a moving tribute to Albion’s troubled soul.

Tracks:
01. Bushes and Briars
02. Meeting Is a Pleasant Place
03. McCrimmon
04. Leaves of Life
05. Green Mossy Banks
06. Aye Walking Oh
07. Dreams of the Returning
08. Black Dog and Sheep Crook
09. Sweet Girl McRee

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWtnqIMCMfo



Sean Taylor - 2024 - The End Of The Rainbow

Americana, folk, alt-country, blues, singer-songwriter.

'Some people keep diaries, I make albums'. John Martyn.

 ‘The End of the rainbow’ is an album of hope and despair. We are surrounded by war and deprivation. Fear and famine. Terror is the daily reality for so many of us. Never have we been so divided, desperate, and alone. At the same time, there will always be hope. Resistance through solidarity, our collective experience, and the power of our shared humanity. The triumph of tenderness over cruelty.

Lange review:
https://klofmag.com/2024/09/sean-taylor-the-end-of-the-rainbow/

Tracks:
01 - Berlin
02 - Eternal Damnation
03 - Invitation
04 - 2024
05 - DWP
06 - Maryjane
07 - Searching for Skip James
08 - The End
09 - Way Down in Enniscorthy
10 - Only Beauty Can Save The World
11 - Gaia

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