Robin Williamson - The Iron Stone
ARTIST.....: Robin Williamson
TITLE......: The Iron Stone
LABEL......: ECM
URL........: http://www.pigswhiskermusic.co.uk/
RIP DATE...: Jul-20-2007
STORE DATE.: Apr-24-2007
GENRE......: Folk
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 75,1 MB
Track Listing:
01 - the climber 03:30
02 - sir patrick spens 07:26
03 - wyatt's song of reproach 03:22
04 - there is a music 03:41
05 - even such is time 02:19
06 - the iron stone 05:56
07 - the badger 04:38
08 - political lies 04:17
09 - the yellow snake 03:07
10 - loftus jones 04:16
11 - bacchus 04:22
12 - the praises of the mountain hare 03:01
13 - to god in god's absence 05:42
14 - verses at ellesmere 04:27
15 - henceforth 03:37
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63:41 min
Release Notes:
Album Description
Artist background/Music: In bringing Robin Williamson together
with improvising musicians ECM has enabled him to take his visions
of spontaneously free flowing sung poetry to a new level of
development.
On this disc - recorded in the Welsh countryside in autumn 2005 -
he is joined by Barre Phillips, the great American bass veteran
who has played with everyone from Ornette Coleman to Jimmy Giuffre
to Archie Shepp and who once worked with the New York Philharmonic
under Leonard Bernstein. Phillips has been a contributor to ECM
since 1971, appearing on discs with Dave Holland, Paul Bley and
Terje Rypdal as well as on his own albums, including the landmark
Mountainscapes. Mat Maneri, unchallenged as the most outstanding
viola player in improvised music, blends ideas from baroque music
to Indian music to bop and free playing into a seamless unique
personal style. Admired by the scene's connoisseurs, Maneri placed
highly in the recently published DownBeat Critics Poll. Ale
Moller, leading architect of the Swedish folk revival has a
natural affinity for Robin's background in traditional music and
colours the work brilliantly with his flamboyant playing on
various folk instruments. Moller's ECM albums with Lena Willemark
and Frifot have been both critical and popular successes. At the
centre is Williamson himself, superb singer, poet, improviser,
multi-instrumentalist.
Material includes: 'The Iron Stone' and 'The Yellow Snake', well
known from the Incredible String Band years; 'Political Lies',
'Verses at Ellesmere' and 'To God In God's Absence', important
pieces from Williamson's solo career, rearranged for this
recording; the traditional Scots ballad 'Sir Patrick Spens' in a
radical reworking. Plus an "early music" treatment of the old tune
'Loftus Jones' and free settings of poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Thomas Wyatt, Walter Raleigh and John Clare as well as Williamson
himself. 28-page booklet includes all lyrics, liner notes by
Williamson, and session photos.
Personnel: Robin Williamson - vocals, Celtic harp, Mohan vina,
Chinese flute, whistles, tabwrdd drum, Mat Maneri - viola,
Hardanger fiddle, Barre Phillips - double-bass, Ale Moller -
mandola, accordion, clarino, shawm, natural flutes, drone flutes,
whistles, jaw harps.
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