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Liz Green, Rob Young (reading from Electric Eden and Q&A), Jamie Harrison
LIZ GREEN
Shadow Play is a collection of Liz Green's early recordings, assembled here as a forerunner to the release of her debut album, which has been recorded at London's Toerag Studios with producer Liam Watson.
The tracks on Shadow Play were recorded in various locations over the period 2007-2009, some in studios, some at home, and one outside in the yard of a terraced house in Manchester.
They include the tracks from Liz's debut releases, two 7" singles on UK independent label Humble Soul. The first of these, Bad Medicine/French Singer was released to great press acclaim in the UK and sold out in its first week.
Also included are "I Do Wrong", Liz's cover of a song penned by her friend Stephen Burch who performs under the moniker "The Great Park", alongside covers of some early blues and country songs which have influenced Liz's own writing, including Blind Willie McTell's "Dying Crapshooter's Blues".
ROB YOUNG (READING FROM ELECTRIC EDEN)
http://www.electriceden.net/
Rob Young is an British music author, journalist and current editor-at-large of The Wire, a British based experimental music magazine.
Young has contributed to various publications including The Guardian, Gramophone, The Independent On Sunday, Uncut, Frieze and Jazz Times.
In Electric Eden, a groundbreaking survey of more than a century of music making in the British Isles, Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators. In a sweeping panorama of Albion's soundscape that takes in the pioneer spirit of Cecil Sharp; the pastoral classicism of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock; the industrial folk revival of Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd; the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Shirley Collins, John Martyn and Pentangle; the bucolic psychedelia of The Incredible String Band, The Beatles and Pink Floyd; the acid folk of Comus, Forest, Mr Fox and Trees; The Wicker Man and occult folklore; the early Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals; and the visionary pop of Kate Bush, Julian Cope and Talk Talk, Electric Eden maps out a native British musical voice that reflects the complex relationships between town and country, progress and nostalgia, radicalism and conservatism.
A wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative time-travel, pastoral innocence and electrified creativity, Electric Eden will be treasured by anyone interested in the tangled story of Britain's folk music and Arcadian dreams.
Praise for Electric Eden:
'Like its subject, this wonderful and informative book is full of surprises; a deep poetic sense runs alongside adroit analysis, absorbing narrative detail and lucid, singular overview. Young has charted a territory that is sodden with mystery and tunnelled under with ceaselessly interconnecting themes and ideas it is as much a state of consciousness that his book describes, connecting sun-lit myths of 'merrie England' to a bewitchingly autumnal study of English music's profound relationship with time and the land.'
Michael Bracewell
'Electric Eden maps the secret aquifer beneath the flourishing landscape of British musical creativity over the last century: the country's heathen heritage of folklore and fancy, ritual and magic, tall tales and stubborn superstitions. Roving from time immemorial to modern antiquarians like Julian Cope, via the pioneering folk song collectors of the early 20th Century, the psychedelic minstrels of the late 1960s, and 70s mavericks like John Martyn and Kate Bush, Rob Young has crafted a vivid and penetrating study of this old, weird Albion. Electric Eden is a stunning achievement.' Simon Reynolds
JAMIE HARRISON
http://www.myspace.com/jamieharrisonsingssongs
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