Format Details:
Release Date: 15 July 2013
Label: Tim Eriksen Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5052442004356
Genres: Folk
Description
Songs of an imaginary New England village in fresh acoustic arrangements from one of the world's premier ballad singers.
"Josh Billings Voyage" celebrates the songs of the fictional New England village of Pumpkintown in fresh acoustic arrangements, transforming global fragments into a tale told with a keen emotional edge. Much of the music comes from the 18th and 19th centuries: love songs, murder ballads, songs of travel on the high seas, rollicking Afro-Celtic sing-alongs, music of local francophone and Scottish communities and shape-note harmony including that of 18th century Native American composer Metacomet Samson. To tell the story of Pumpkintown, Tim Eriksen draws subtly on decades of intensive study of the South Indian veena and its repertoire, on years of wrangling with the difficult but rewarding bajo sexto, and on a lifetime of singing deeply rooted, highly emotional traditional ballads.
In Pumpkintown, young men set out on journeys over the sea, people live and love and die and dance, and the graveyard and hills mark time.
"It struck me early on that 'Yankee' culture has always been deeply multicultural, in ways that may not be as obvious as the kinds of hyphenated multiculturalism that is most often talked about," Eriksen reflects. "It's the kind of multiculturalism that's invisible if you don't recognize the distinctions or sources of influence."
Tracklisting
St Agnes Fountain
Will & James Ragar
Subway to Sally
The Albion Christmas Band
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Gjermund Larsen Trio
Berit Opheim
Seamus Begley
