Ashore

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AshoreOpis:Product Description June Tabor’s recording career has consistently reached ever higher standards of performance and interpretation. Each of her albums has sought to match the highest technical standards with emotionally powerful performances and scintillating musical arrangements. Her forthcoming album – a collection of songs concerning humankind’s relationship with the sea – is already being hailed by critics and long-time fans as another career highpoint.

Ashore features a powerful set of contemporary songs alongside classic traditional ballads like "The Bleacher Lassie Of Kelvinhaugh" and "The Great Selkie Of Sule Skerry". The contemporary material includes a spine-tingling version of Elvis Costello’s "Shipbuilding"; a new recording of Ian Telfer’s "Finisterre" (first recorded by June with the Oyster Band on Freedom & Rain) and two remarkable songs from the pen of Cyril Tawney – "The Grey Funnel Line" and "The Oggie Man". The album was recorded with June’s regular musicians - Andy Cutting, diatonic accordion; Mark Emerson, viola and violin, Tim Harries, double bass and Huw Warren, piano. June’s range and depth are unparalleled, and with Ashore she fully justifies her reputation as England’s foremost song interpreter.

Review June Tabor has always resolutely pursued her own heart without recourse to the conformities of genre, expectations of audiences and especially not the pressures of orthodox commercial appeal.

Her hard-headed attitude may not have won her great riches and she sometimes makes challenging demands on even her most devoted followers, but it gives her a unique aura. Richard Thompson and Elvis Costello are among those who’ve written songs specifically for her, and marginalising her in the ‘folk’ category seems woefully limiting.

Given her first album came out in 1976 she probably qualifies for veteran status, but there’s nothing tired or worn about this quietly dramatic, charismatic album. Constructed thematically around songs of the sea, Tabor tackles reflective themes of disaster, alienation and conflict with the dexterity of a skilled surgeon. She has a delicate way of cutting away the surface of songs to reveal hidden layers of sub-plot, so that material as familiar as Cyril Tawney’s The Oggie Man and Elvis Costello’s Shipbuilding sound like they’re being performed for the very first time.

She’s helped enormously by the empathy of her regular musicians – Huw Warren (piano), Mark Emerson (viola, violin), Tim Harries (double bass) and Andy Cutting (diatonic accordion) – who add plenty without ever intruding. Warren’s tense accompaniment adds enormously to the simmering power of the 11-minute emigration epic Across the Wide Ocean. Yet when Tabor sings unaccompanied on the great Scottish street ballad The Bleacher Lassie of Kelvinhaugh, the impact is remarkable. Few, too, would dare the spoken-word interlude with which she delivers the tragic denouement of The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry.

There are two French language songs from the Channel Islands, offering widely divergent moods, while Tabor also revisits a couple of tracks previously recorded in radically different forms – evocative opening track Finisterre from her Oysterband collaboration Freedom & Rain (1990), and the melancholy Grey Funnel Line, a celebrated track she previously sang with Maddy Prior on the 1976 Silly Sisters album.

It’s not an album for those with short attention spans but, in a world of lightweights, Tabor’s a colossus and this is one of her finest hours. --Colin IrwinFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window Review "...

Tabor's grainy contralto is as impactful an instrument as exists.." -- The Independent"...a reminder that she is one of the folk scene's great historians, capable of enthusiastically combining research and fine storytelling and - more importantly - that she's a singer who dares to mix experiment with emotion......

The variety was remarkable and every song was treaAutor:June TaborNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2011Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.