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5038622137014

Big Machine

Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band

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Format: CD

Cat No: TSCD592

Release Date:  03 February 2017

Label:  Topic

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  714822005920

Genres:  Folk  English Folk  

Release Date:  03 February 2017

Label:  Weatherbox

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5038622137014

Genres:  Folk  English Folk  

  • Description

    BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Nominee 2018: Best Group, Best Album.

    Pioneering English traditional folk powerhouse, Eliza Carthy, first assembled the Wayward Band in 2013 in order to explore and celebrate her long and varied career in folk music; 'the last truly underground music scene'. To do this Eliza put together a team of hugely talented people from across the UK, and set out on the road to promote her 'Best Of' compilation, 'Wayward Daughter,' which coincided with a biography of the same name. Since then, the band has become a festival favourite, and Eliza has been awarded the MBE for services to folk music. Eliza and the Wayward Band loved playing together so much it seemed natural and inevitable, as well as characteristically ambitious, that this 12-piece would set about recording an album. Early in 2016 they did just that. 'Big Machine' is the result and the renowned Real World and Rockfield Studios are where it all happened. 'Big Machine', produced by Jim Sutherland, will be released by Topic Records in February 2017.

    The material represents a healthy slice of everything good that is happening in traditional music now, across a sparkling spectrum of sound. The album features three contemporary songs; Eliza's own 'You Know Me' about the migrant crisis and notions of hospitality (featuring MC Dizraeli), a powerful cover of Ewan Maccoll's Radio Ballad 'The Fitter's Song' (at the behest of Peggy Seeger - and the song which inspired the album title) and an affectionate reworking of 'Hug You Like a Mountain' (Rory MacLeod), re-imagined here as a duet with Teddy Thompson.

    There are also several examples of the Broadside ballad collections housed in Chetham's Library in Manchester given a new twist with music by Eliza and the band. This follows an acclaimed programme Eliza presented for Radio 4 about the Manchester Ballads last year, covering everything from songs about and caused by domestic abuse ('Devil in the Woman,' 'Fade and Fall (Love Not)'), to love of the seafaring life ('The Sea'). Added to that a couple of searing instrumentals, a song about dying from custard poisoning and a heartbreaking traditional ballad 'I Wish that the Wars were all Over' (performed live with the band onstage in Real World Studios' Studio One and featuring Irish superstar Damien Dempsey), and you begin to get the picture. A very Big picture, a Big Machine firing on all cylinders. 'Big Machine' is one of Eliza Carthy's most adventurous and accomplished works to date -- and given that Eliza is the most passionate and groundbreaking English traditional singer of her generation, 'Big Machine' is an album you really won't want to miss.

    Description

    BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Nominee 2018: Best Album, Best Group.
    Pressed on two 180g vinyl discs with a heavyweight gatefold sleeve and full colour inner bags.

    Pioneering English traditional folk powerhouse, Eliza Carthy, first assembled the Wayward Band in 2013 in order to explore and celebrate her long and varied career in folk music; 'the last truly underground music scene'. To do this Eliza put together a team of hugely talented people from across the UK, and set out on the road to promote her 'Best Of' compilation, 'Wayward Daughter,' which coincided with a biography of the same name. Since then, the band has become a festival favourite, and Eliza has been awarded the MBE for services to folk music. Eliza and the Wayward Band loved playing together so much it seemed natural and inevitable, as well as characteristically ambitious, that this 12-piece would set about recording an album. Early in 2016 they did just that. 'Big Machine' is the result and the renowned Real World and Rockfield Studios are where it all happened. 'Big Machine', produced by Jim Sutherland, will be released by Topic Records in February 2017.

    The material represents a healthy slice of everything good that is happening in traditional music now, across a sparkling spectrum of sound. The album features three contemporary songs; Eliza's own 'You Know Me' about the migrant crisis and notions of hospitality (featuring MC Dizraeli), a powerful cover of Ewan Maccoll's Radio Ballad 'The Fitter's Song' (at the behest of Peggy Seeger - and the song which inspired the album title) and an affectionate reworking of 'Hug You Like a Mountain' (Rory MacLeod), re-imagined here as a duet with Teddy Thompson.

    There are also several examples of the Broadside ballad collections housed in Chetham's Library in Manchester given a new twist with music by Eliza and the band. This follows an acclaimed programme Eliza presented for Radio 4 about the Manchester Ballads last year, covering everything from songs about and caused by domestic abuse ('Devil in the Woman,' 'Fade and Fall (Love Not)'), to love of the seafaring life ('The Sea'). Added to that a couple of searing instrumentals, a song about dying from custard poisoning and a heartbreaking traditional ballad 'I Wish that the Wars were all Over' (performed live with the band onstage in Real World Studios' Studio One and featuring Irish superstar Damien Dempsey), and you begin to get the picture. A very Big picture, a Big Machine firing on all cylinders. 'Big Machine' is one of Eliza Carthy's most adventurous and accomplished works to date -- and given that Eliza is the most passionate and groundbreaking English traditional singer of her generation, 'Big Machine' is an album you really won't want to miss.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Fade & Fall (Love Not)
      • 2. Devil in the Woman
      • 3. The Fitter's Song
      • 4. Jack Warrell's (Excerpt)/Love Lane
      • 5. Hug You Like a Mountain
      • 6. You Know Me
      • 7. Great Greyback
      • 8. Mrs Dyer the Baby Farmer
      • 9. I Wish That the Wars Were All Over
      • 10. The Sea
      • 11. Epitaph

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Fade & Fall (Love Not)
      • 2. Devil In The Woman
      • 3. Fitter's Song
      • 4. Jack Warrell's (excerpt) - Love Lane

      Side 2

      • 1. Hug You Like A Mountain (featuring Teddy Thompson)
      • 2. You Know Me (featuring Dizraeli)
      • 3. Great Grey Back

      Disc 2

      Side 1

      • 1. Mrs Dyer The Baby Farmer
      • 2. I Wish That The Wars Were All Over (featuring Damien Dempsey)

      Side 2

      • 1. The Sea
      • 2. Epitaph