Release Date: 22 February 2010
Label: No Masters
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5020393903226
Genres: Folk  English Folk  
Release Date: 22 February 2010
Label: No Masters
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5020393903226
Genres: Folk  English Folk  
Description
Stunning debut album from ex-Unthanks pianist, Belinda O'Hooley and Yorkshire songwriter Heidi Tidow. Haunting piano, soaring strings and warm harmonies combine beautifully.
O'Hooley is best known for her work as songwriter and pianist with Rachel Unthank & the Winterset (now The Unthanks). Since leaving the band, the stark, haunting piano arrangements she brought to the Mercury Prize-nominated album 'The Bairns' (EMI) have evolved and migrated to her new duo with Yorkshire songwriter Heidi Tidow. These dapper-suited gentlewomen have an unconventional, wryly observant, melancholic and sometimes uncomfortable take on life; creating their very own brand of contemporary folk song together with a stage manner likened to Jo Brand meets Laurel & Hardy.
'Silent June' was recorded between August and November 2009 at Belinda and Heidi's home in Golcar, Huddersfield, mixed and mastered by Neil Ferguson (Chumbawamba). With their voices and the infamous Yamaha U3 upright piano featured in 'The Bairns' (Rachel Unthank & The Winterset) as the core sound, this album unveils the joining forces of two highly original and compelling songwriters.
Tracks; 1 Flight Of The Petrel / 2 All Stand In Line / 3 Shelter Me / 4 Banjololo / 5 Spancil Hill / 6 Too Old To Dream / 7 Hiddden From The Sun / 8 Que Sera / 9 Beautiful Danger / 10 One More Xmas / 11 Cold & Stiff
Tracklisting
O'Hooley & Tidow
Coope, Boyes & Simpson
Coope, Boyes & Simpson
Narthen
O'Hooley & Tidow
Chumbawamba
Coope, Boyes & Simpson
Ray Hearne
O'Hooley & Tidow
O'Hooley & Tidow
O'Hooley & Tidow
O'Hooley & Tidow
O'Hooley & Tidow
O'Hooley & Tidow