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Here’s a bit of news – Very pleased to say that in early January I’ll be heading into the studio once more, this time with my good friends from the Big Eyes Family Players, where we shall be recording an album of traditional songs as James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players. This should be braw as a craw. The songs we’ve been working on already sound grand – very excited to be back in the studio again so soon after Haar. There’ll be a few other folk involved also, Nancy Elizabeth Cunliffe being one. Hurrah!
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WerbungJames Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players : Folk Songs.
Here’s some blurb I wrote for the press release:
“The idea behind this album of folk songs first surfaced around 2000 / 2001: To record an album of traditional songs for Fence Records of St. Andrews, to sell as a companion piece to my own work which they were then punting out to unsuspecting golfers. So I set to it, learning songs from cassettes and CDs by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie and Nic Jones, Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr; recording them to various states of success and undress. I also tackled a few Lal Waterson tracks – Scarecrow & Fine Horseman. Lal’s songwriting of course I’ve revisited since. Alas, it ended up unreleased – Domino Records, in a rare lapse of good judgement, decided to offer me a record contract and the folk album got put on the back burner. Being miserly, the songs I’d recorded already, or had marked for that original traditional album, were mostly put on subsequent albums or EPs. So, this album here consists of 11 “new” tunes. New as in chosen and recorded especially for this record. But they’re not new songs, by any means.
I picked up The Big Eyes Family Players somewhere along the way. Any touring musician will tell you – CDs from punters and fellow musicians seem to end up in your pockets at the end of every gig. At the end of every tour there’s a least half a dozen CDs, CDrs, etc. One such CD I discovered was by Big Eyes; and lo-and-behold, I loved what I heard. I contacted the main guy, James Green, and we’ve been in touch ever since. When I decided to resurrect this traditional album idea, he was an obvious choice of partner in crime. I didn’t want to work with my usual band The Athletes, but there was no slur there, they’ll be back on board for the next James Yorkston album proper – I just fancied trying something different.”
“Most of these songs were learned from recordings from the 1960s folk revival, a fair few from Anne Briggs – but that’s quite fitting, as it was her wonderful singing that originally rekindled my thoughts on traditional music, after a well-spent youth making as much noise as I could.“
The tracklisting is as follows:
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Hills Of Greenmoor
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Just As The Tide Was Flowing
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Martinmas Time
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Mary Connaught & James O’Donnell
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Thorneymoor Woods
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I Went To Visit The Roses
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Pandeirada de Entrimo
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Little Musgrave
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Rufford Park Poachers
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Sovay
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Low Down In The BroomThe album comes out on August 10th – but it can be pre-ordered now, in a limited edition 3 disc set, all for £20 from HERE. What’s included?
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Limited to 1000 copies
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CD album
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CD album of live session with alternate takes and different tracks
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Full length DVD of live session
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PosterThat’s pretty good, I think. Not good enough? Well how about….
If you order your Special Edition before 6th July, you can have your name included on the Special Edition artwork! That’s pretty exciting. Now, at the Homegame Festival a fortnight ago, a guy came up to me and told me he was going to order it and have his daughter’s name put on the artwork. That’s true paternal love for you. I wouldn’t for a moment suggest that those of you who don’t do that are bad parents, of course. Nice idea though. Alternatively, you could have your partners name on. Or your dog. Or cat, even.
So. I don’t think they’ll let rude or offensive names be put on the artwork. Maybe though? Wha‘ kens?
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/16-04-09/folk-songs
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dockJames Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players : Folk Songs.
Here’s some blurb I wrote for the press release:
“The idea behind this album of folk songs first surfaced around 2000 / 2001: To record an album of traditional songs for Fence Records of St. Andrews, to sell as a companion piece to my own work which they were then punting out to unsuspecting golfers. So I set to it, learning songs from cassettes and CDs by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie and Nic Jones, Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr; recording them to various states of success and undress. I also tackled a few Lal Waterson tracks – Scarecrow & Fine Horseman. Lal’s songwriting of course I’ve revisited since. Alas, it ended up unreleased – Domino Records, in a rare lapse of good judgement, decided to offer me a record contract and the folk album got put on the back burner. Being miserly, the songs I’d recorded already, or had marked for that original traditional album, were mostly put on subsequent albums or EPs. So, this album here consists of 11 “new” tunes. New as in chosen and recorded especially for this record. But they’re not new songs, by any means.
I picked up The Big Eyes Family Players somewhere along the way. Any touring musician will tell you – CDs from punters and fellow musicians seem to end up in your pockets at the end of every gig. At the end of every tour there’s a least half a dozen CDs, CDrs, etc. One such CD I discovered was by Big Eyes; and lo-and-behold, I loved what I heard. I contacted the main guy, James Green, and we’ve been in touch ever since. When I decided to resurrect this traditional album idea, he was an obvious choice of partner in crime. I didn’t want to work with my usual band The Athletes, but there was no slur there, they’ll be back on board for the next James Yorkston album proper – I just fancied trying something different.”
“Most of these songs were learned from recordings from the 1960s folk revival, a fair few from Anne Briggs – but that’s quite fitting, as it was her wonderful singing that originally rekindled my thoughts on traditional music, after a well-spent youth making as much noise as I could.“
The tracklisting is as follows:
*
Hills Of Greenmoor
*
Just As The Tide Was Flowing
*
Martinmas Time
*
Mary Connaught & James O’Donnell
*
Thorneymoor Woods
*
I Went To Visit The Roses
*
Pandeirada de Entrimo
*
Little Musgrave
*
Rufford Park Poachers
*
Sovay
*
Low Down In The BroomThe album comes out on August 10th – but it can be pre-ordered now, in a limited edition 3 disc set, all for £20 from HERE. What’s included?
*
Limited to 1000 copies
*
CD album
*
CD album of live session with alternate takes and different tracks
*
Full length DVD of live session
*
PosterThat’s pretty good, I think. Not good enough? Well how about….
If you order your Special Edition before 6th July, you can have your name included on the Special Edition artwork! That’s pretty exciting. Now, at the Homegame Festival a fortnight ago, a guy came up to me and told me he was going to order it and have his daughter’s name put on the artwork. That’s true paternal love for you. I wouldn’t for a moment suggest that those of you who don’t do that are bad parents, of course. Nice idea though. Alternatively, you could have your partners name on. Or your dog. Or cat, even.
So. I don’t think they’ll let rude or offensive names be put on the artwork. Maybe though? Wha‘ kens?
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/16-04-09/folk-songs
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Hört sich gut an….bestellt!
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Limited edition 7″ single with individually artworked sleeve, and the chance for fans to see their own words etched into the run out groove plus a chance to win a pair of tickets to Field Day.
On 3 August James Yorkston is to release a new single, the limited edition 7” ‘Martinmas Time’. The single is taken from James’ forthcoming 5th studio album ‘Folk Songs’, which sees James teaming up with The Big Eyes Family Players for a new album of traditional songs, set for release a week after the single on 10 August.
Limited to 300 copies, James’ version of ‘Martinmas Time’, learned from the singing of Anne Briggs, is backed by ‘Nottanum Town’, which is also taken from the ‘Folk Songs’ recording sessions. Each 7” comes in it’s own unique sleeve – 300 blank sleeves have been sent out by James Yorkston & James Green (aka Big Eyes) to friends and family to be designed, desecrated, doddoled & decollated on. Already with their crayons to the ready are King Creosote, The Pictish Trail, Lone Pigeon & Steve Mason. Who knows which one you’ll get?!
Not only that! James also wants his fans to be involved in the creative process by offering them a chance to write a haiku and see it etched into real life vinyl. Yes, write a haiku based around the theme of James Yorkston/ ‘Folk Songs’ / Big Eyes and two winners’ entries will be etched into the run out groove of the 7″.
Entrants should send their haikus to competition@dominorecordco.com with JY POEM COMP in the subject line. Entries must be received by the 30th June.
Each winner will also get a pair of tickets to London’s Field Day where James will be performing. Details below:
AEROPLANE / APES AND ANDROIDS / AUDION / EROL ALKAN / ERRORS / FAKE BLOOD / FENNESZ / FINAL FANTASY / FIRST AID KIT / FOUR TET / JAMES YORKSTON / JUANA MOLINA / LITTLE BOOTS (Live) / MALCOLM MIDDLETON / MICACHU AND THE SHAPES / MOGWAI / MYSTERY JETS / RUSKO / SANTIGOLD (UK Exclusive) / S.C.U.M / SKREAM / THE BIG PINK / THE HORRORS / THE TEMPER TRAP / THE THING / THE XX / TOUMANI DIABATE / WOODPIGEON / WET PAINT
SATURDAY 1st AUGUST 2009
VICTORIA PARK / LONDON / E9
TICKET PRICE: £29.50 + BF
TIME: 11.30 – 10.30PM
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Erscheint am 10. August als LP/CD/3er-Digipack
Ein würdiger Nachfolger zum grandiosen „When The Haar Rolls In“, wenn er auch in zweiten Hälfte in Sachen Qualität vereinzelt abnimmt. Die freiheitlichen Folk-Musiker von The Big Eyes Players, deren Alben sich durch einen subtilen Wechsel zwischen den Attributen traditionell und spärisch auszeichnen, spielen im Gegensatz zur bisherigen Begleitband (Teile des Fence Collectives) versierter und kontrollierter, begrenzen sich auch in ihrem mitgebrachten Instrumentarium. Das hat zur Folge, dass man im ersten Moment keinen großen Unterschied ziehen kann zum bisherigen Yorkston-Output, Verweise in Richtung „Moving Up Country“, mit seinem ausgelassenen, spontanen Eingebungen, aber nur noch schwer zu ziehen sind (mit Ausnahme der Flöten bei „Martinmas Time“). Nach und nach erschließen sich die Feinheiten hinter den größtenteils repititiven, karg aber nicht kühl arrangierten Klanggebilden und geben die experimentellen Spitzen der großartigen backing band frei.
Zu mehr Analyse hat es bisher noch nicht gereicht. Vor allem mit dem zweiten Teil, der wie schon gesagt ein paar wenige Schwachpunkte aufzeigt, will ich mich noch intensiver beschäftigen, weil ich denke, dass hier noch mehr „rauszuholen“ ist. „Folk Songs“ erinnert mich in erster Linie an Yorkstons zweites Album „Just Beyond The River“, wenn auch die hintergründige Begleitung hier wesentlich mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient.--
detours elsewheretugboat captainEin würdiger Nachfolger zum grandiosen „When The Haar Rolls In“, wenn er auch in zweiten Hälfte in Sachen Qualität vereinzelt abnimmt.
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„Folk Songs“ erinnert mich in erster Linie an Yorkstons zweites Album „Just Beyond The River“, wenn auch die hintergründige Begleitung hier wesentlich mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient.Das klingt doch schon einmal sehr vielversprechend. „Just Beyond The River“ ist meine liebste Yorkston LP, weswegen ich guter Hoffnung bin, dass das neue Album ähnlich großartig wird. Eine schlechte Platte könnte der Mann ohnehin nicht machen.
Jedenfalls danke für diese erste Einschätzung, tuggy! Ich freue mich schon sehr auf das Album (und natürlich die Single).--
Die LP wird morgen veröffentlicht!!
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FOLK SONGS ist wieder sehr schön geworden, die Big Eyes Family Players runden Yorkstons Spiel und Gesang schön ab, alles klingt etwas professioneller und weniger akzentuiert als bei den Athletes. Die Melodien fließen vor sich hin und prägen sich nicht so schnell ins Hirn wie noch beim HAAR der Fall. Auch wenn das alles z.T. jahrhundertealte Lieder sind, Yorkston drückt ihnen sein Stempel auf und schon in den ersten Sekunden von „Hills Of Greenmoor“ ist die Platte als Yorkston Werk erkennbar. Die Background Vocals von Nancy Elizabeth klingt schon sehr out of time, manchmal klingt mir das auch schon etwas zu irisch. Ganz großartig wird es, wenn Yorkston das Tempo anzieht, wie in Mary Connaught & James O’Dunnel oder dem Schlusstrack „Low Down In The Broom“. Natürlich nicht ganz so stark wie der Vorgänger, aber auf jeden Fall sehr gelungen.
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