The Imagined Village
- 艺人
- The Imagined Village
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Real World Records
- 发行时间
- 2008年06月10日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
If you think you know about English folk music, think again!
The Imagined Village, the brainchild of producer and musician Simon Emmerson, has recast age old traditions in the shape of the twentyfirst century.
A daring mix of ancient and modern, The Imagined Village fuses fiddles and squeezebox with dub beats and sitars. To do so it has gathered an extraorinary array of talent: Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Sheila Chandra, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller, Tunng, Transglobal Underground and Benjamin Zephaniah among others.
Emmerson has a history of ground-breaking fusions, as founder of jazz-soul group Working Week and The Afro Celt Sound System, and as a Grammy-nominated producer of world acts like Manu Dibango and Baba Maal. After travelling the world I thought it was time explore my own roots, he says Simon, to look at the earth under my feet.
The resulting album is arguably the most ambitious re-invention of the English folk tradition since Fairport Conventions Liege and Lief back in 1969. Favourites like John Barleycorn and Cold Hailey Rainy Night are given radical new soundscapes, the magical ballad Tam Lyn is retold as a tale of urban clubland amid a parade of great voices and wonderful playing. Paul Weller duets with Martin Carthy and Tunng bring their quirky inventive young folk sound while Sheila Chandra sings a heart-breaking ballad with beauty and elegance.
Martin Carthy: "The only harm you can do to traditional music is not to play it or sing it."
Simon Emmerson: "Englishness is the final frontier of world music."
Billy Bragg: "In any village theres a meeting between the custodians of the past and the architects of the future, and The Imagined Village reflects just that."
最新简评（共3条）
- @ophelia✿(drowned.)：无损转320K。
- @NO name：Cold Haily Rainy Night很好听。。有下载，但是要翻墙。虾米又不要192的- -。。 ophelia✿ (drowned.) 2012-02-19 23:30 其实是要的……192K及以上即可；不过发布前还是用软件看看频谱吧~~真实音质不一定有192K。