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MP3 The Children - Equals
10 MP3 Songs in this album (41:32) !
Related styles: Folk: Modern Folk, Folk: Alternative Folk, Type: Political
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At the heart of The Children is the songwriting team of John Gibbens (guitar and voice) and Armorel Weston (bass and voice).
"When we first started picking out the songs for this album, back in 2005, we didn''t realise how quickly they''d become topical, what with rising political unrest, deepening economic crisis and environmental degradation. Perhaps we were influenced by the tough place we''d been living in for seven years, but the music antidotes the turmoil rather than adding to it. There’s ''Ructions’ but there''s ''Hope Yet''.
The recording spanned the period when we moved with our Tipi Studio from the grinding vortex of the Elephant & Castle to a new pitch among the wooded hills of London''s deep south (to dig our potatoes in the shadow of the Crystal Palace).
The core performance is our live duo – bass, guitar and voices. Then one or two other players contribute to each track: the sensitive snare and cymbals of Paul Barrett, for example, and the salty concertina of Kath Tait; or the Arabic drumming of Dunstan Clarke with the Spanish-tinged trumpet of Terry Edwards, bringing the atmosphere of the songs to life.
The basic tracks were done down there in the carbon shadow of the New Kent Road. Finishing touches, mixing and mastering took place with the sun, or more likely the moonlight, filtering down through the Norwood oaks onto our long-serving Akai 12-track."
The musicians:
Armorel Weston, voice, bass, percussion
John Gibbens, voice, guitar, keyboards
with
Paul Barrett, snare drum and cymbals
Dunstan Clarke, darbuka
Terry Edwards, trumpet, cornet
Hayereyah, harmonica on ‘Hope Yet’
Charlie Kronick, mandolin
Niall McDevitt, bodhran
Rob Mason, harmonica on ‘Western Civilisation’
Kath Tait, concertina, harmonica on ‘The Base’
Recorded at Tipi Studios
Cover image by Burhan Tufail
A Touched Production
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