Verity

[johncorrigan]

It really was Verity on Wo3 and immediately begged the Q "Why hasn't she done this before?" Simply excellent.

A standout track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kic7oIfqvkw

a track she didn't play but maybe should:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djca7zTbwRE

She even finished off with a track from Junun - as prevously mentioned here.

I really enjoyed the Mariza track 'Missangas'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-yGuG4CoYU

I wasn't sure about the 'Touristes' at first but it's growing on me quite a bit, Global.

[johncorrigan]

Verity must be sleeping in the hall of Rad3 because she's back for another stint on LJ. But don't know if it was just me but it felt like a strange show last night - quite unVS-like really. Still, she did play Jac Berrocal's 'Rock and Roll Station' - never heard of it but most enjoyable - and more from the fabulous Kandia.

[Globaltruth]

Well, VS made more than a decent attempt at turning LJ into her very own Wo3 on Thursday night, with the odd wobble towards more standard LJ fare. Not sure I want to pick specific tracks out - overall standard was so high, but must admit that yoiking has been a favourite feature of the whole Northern Lights season, and that was a great yoik track.
Here is Ande Somby in full flow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU9cu6GwoXM

If only Mrs GT was on this forum she'd know straight away what I wanted for Xmas...
and, a salmon song (starts after 2 mins once the plane has cleared off)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVoMXjM8kg

The Rheingans Sisters, who, as far as I could make out, had been on holiday in The North at some point so qualified for Northern lights inclusion, one for you JC, it's an ISB cover, good banjo too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VomBZdeDkXw

Bit confused how Lura & Naná Vasconcelos had any Northern Lights connections, could it be related to an out of control smoke machine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kACLdAFgVVI

[johncorrigan]

Here is Ande Somby in full flow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU9cu6GwoXM

If only Mrs GT was on this forum she'd know straight away what I wanted for Xmas...

Is it a matching hat and coat, Global? Nice look! I think it'll catch the zeitgeist effectively.

and, a salmon song (starts after 2 mins once the plane has cleared off)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVoMXjM8kg

Interestingly, well I thought it was, I have been listening to a bit Unthanks this week, and in particular their song 'Mount the Air'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnDO4gJk84

Listening to Ande I was reminded of it with that need to be different animals to search in different places being a theme in the song. Very interesting bit of yoiking and much to my loiking!

[Lat-Literal]

Is it a matching hat and coat, Global? Nice look! I think it'll catch the zeitgeist effectively.



Interestingly, well I thought it was, I have been listening to a bit Unthanks this week, and in particular their song 'Mount the Air'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnDO4gJk84

Listening to Ande I was reminded of it with that need to be different animals to search in different places being a theme in the song. Very interesting bit of yoiking and much to my loiking!

You listening to the Unthanks, John. I am so pleased as indeed I am that they haven't become too mainstream. They are a link back to Clement Attlee are they not? I have to be honest. I realised today that if I had had offspring, my serious advice to them would have been to completely drop out of the system and, I guess, sell lucky heather from a caravanette in a village just outside Hexham or Bellingham. Warmly. The weird thing is I was never looking for this stance. Perhaps it was always in me and I just didn't realise it. Yer actual rebellion. Edit - I suppose what I have just said isn't quite true. My main ambition for them would have been to become excellent but not overly commercial folk singers.

......and........I hadn't heard that track before and it is predictably wonderful, brilliant and magnificent. I love them even more than Paul Morley loves them!

Second edit - I am now on the fourth run-through. They are the best of anything and everything since 2000. That's how I feel.

The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming (Live at Hebden Bridge Trades Club, 8 November 2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7VDlC_vrkg

[johncorrigan]

You listening to the Unthanks, John.

......and........I hadn't heard that track before and it is predictably wonderful, brilliant and magnificent. I love them even more than Paul Morley loves them!

Second edit - I am now on the fourth run-through. They are the best of anything and everything since 2000. That's how I feel.

My colleague went to see them last year and brought me a signed copy, Lat. 'Mount the Air' takes me almost from home to one of my work bases, something I appreciate. It is far and away the best track on the record, in my opinion. I think they are very good but as I have said before elsewhere I like a slice but don't want to eat the whole cake. They're just a bit too one-paced for me. However here's another one I like a lot. Starless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTEqXH9dB2g

[Globaltruth]

. I think they are very good but as I have said before elsewhere I like a slice but don't want to eat the whole cake. They're just a bit too one-paced for me.

Sums it up for me too but I shall visit the recent stuff just to make sure... as I've shared with JC before, I sometimes wonder about internal tensions with others than the main 4/5, but maybe it's just the always changing personnel of English folk musicians in action?

Past members:
Belinda O'Hooley - now performing with Heidi Tidow,
Jackie Oates - Jim Moray's sister),
Stef Conner - who made the first new recording of Sumerian music for 4500 years using a wonderful reconstructed lyre
Here she is with a John Clare lullaby

https://youtu.be/wJ9LyykMEd4?list=PL1eeY78yM7vNx5Zwk0SkByg6dC4DzubQS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBZb99yzoWY

- not that many changes I suppose and they all seem to relish their musical freedom once they have left.

[johncorrigan]

https://youtu.be/wJ9LyykMEd4?list=PL1eeY78yM7vNx5Zwk0SkByg6dC4DzubQS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBZb99yzoWY

- not that many changes I suppose and they all seem to relish their musical freedom once they have left.

Nice bit of Clare there, G. The tune sounded quite Irish I thought or is that just the effect of the harp, do you think?

I suppose that watching the Unthanks on stage in Lat's link, I get the feeling that there's only one Boss, and it's not Bruce, so that might have members moving on. Stef Conner seems to have things she needs to do - really liked the sound of the Lyre on the Gimgamesh track.

[johncorrigan]

Heard this very enjoyable programme en route to Reekie today. Verity introducing a programme about various instrument makers, from Cello an d Violin to Uillean Pipes via the guitar and kora. Nothing much more to say except what a good presenter she is...though I think it's been said before.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ztsjj#play

[Lat-Literal]

Sums it up for me too but I shall visit the recent stuff just to make sure... as I've shared with JC before, I sometimes wonder about internal tensions with others than the main 4/5, but maybe it's just the always changing personnel of English folk musicians in action?

Past members:
Belinda O'Hooley - now performing with Heidi Tidow,
Jackie Oates - Jim Moray's sister),
Stef Conner - who made the first new recording of Sumerian music for 4500 years using a wonderful reconstructed lyre
Here she is with a John Clare lullaby

https://youtu.be/wJ9LyykMEd4?list=PL1eeY78yM7vNx5Zwk0SkByg6dC4DzubQS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBZb99yzoWY

- not that many changes I suppose and they all seem to relish their musical freedom once they have left.

Nice bit of Clare there, G. The tune sounded quite Irish I thought or is that just the effect of the harp, do you think?

I suppose that watching the Unthanks on stage in Lat's link, I get the feeling that there's only one Boss, and it's not Bruce, so that might have members moving on. Stef Conner seems to have things she needs to do - really liked the sound of the Lyre on the Gimgamesh track.

Thanks for these links GT which are very enjoyable. They were posted just after I had completed my grand tour of mainstream symphonies and then for various reasons needed to take a break. I realise now that when Stef Conner turned up at Leith Hill Place on Michael Portillo's programme, you had got there first! I think she is a very striking performer who is breaking new ground. Jackie Oates and Belinda O'Hooley are, of course, significant in their own right. I hadn't noticed any tensions. In a field renowned for sibling rivalry, it has always seemed to me that the Unthank sisters get on very well and then as Paul Morley commented in his interview with them the husband of one is also very much involved. I'd say that the first two albums are (just) the best but they have maintained a consistently high standard and a changing personnel has kept what they are doing fresh - and evolving.

[Globaltruth]

I hadn't noticed any tensions. In a field renowned for sibling rivalry, it has always seemed to me that the Unthank sisters get on very well and then as Paul Morley commented in his interview with them the husband of one is also very much involved. I'd say that the first two albums are (just) the best but they have maintained a consistently high standard and a changing personnel has kept what they are doing fresh - and evolving.

My absolute pleasure Lat, and, as a keener observer of them and their work I shall be entirely guided by you re the internal stuff.

[johncorrigan]

Really enjoying the International Day of Women LJ special tonight. Great to hear O Superman again - hadn't heard it in ages. And terrific Kathryn Tickell too. Always good to have VS in there.

[DracoM]

[DracoM]

How does she do it? For me, she is the top R3 presenter, same quality as AMcG. With Verity, less is more.

[johncorrigan]

Enjoyed Verity's return last night celebrating May and in particular Doc Rowe's field recordings from the Padstow May Day festivities - most delightful.