The Changing Room - Picking Up The Pieces (2016)
BAND/ARTIST: The Changing Room
- Title: Picking Up The Pieces
- Year Of Release: 2016
- Label: TCR Music
- Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 00:37:05
- Total Size: 227 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Caradon Hill
02. Zephaniah Job
03. The Grayhound
04. Bal Maiden's Waltz
05. Gwrello Glaw
06. The Cinder Track
07. Koh I Noor
08. Delyow Sevi
09. We Will Remember Them
10. Tie 'Em Up
11. It's All Downhill From Here
Picking Up The Pieces is the second album from Cornwall-based folk collective The Changing Room: the multi-award winning collaborative project between Sam Kelly (vocals, guitar) and Tanya Brittain (vocals, accordion), whose 2015 debut Behind The Lace was described by Folk Radio UK as a great set of songs, with a sprinkle of magic (read the review here). Retaining the services of Jamie Francis (banjo), Evan Carson (percussion) and Morrigan Palmer Brown (harp), the new album also features contributions from Kevin McGuire (upright bass), John McCusker (fiddle) and Belinda O Hooley (piano) and it makes a fine follow-up and companion piece to Behind The Lace.
The Cornish connection which featured so strongly and to such good effect in the band s debut is again a major artistic theme which underpins Picking Up The Pieces, and nowhere more so than in the opening Caradon Hill; a lyrical word-picture imagining the hardships of life as a miner in what was the biggest copper mine in the UK in its heyday in the 19th century. Tanya s emotive harmonies reinforce Sam s passionate vocals while John s fiddle weaves in and out of the melody as the midtempo arrangement builds slowly and purposefully to its striking a capella coda.
A loosely biographical account of one of Cornwall s most (in)famous 18th century entrepreneurs provides the inspiration for Zephaniah Job. His financial acumen enabled him to become the greatest single benefactor in the history of the Cornish village of Polperro, managing not only the business side of the smuggling trade but also helping many of the residents by managing their financial affairs, acting as advisor, accountant and banker. The tale of this paragon of enlightened capitalism makes for a joyously celebratory uptempo song. Tanya and Sam take lead vocals in alternate verses, coming together for the refrains, while Jamie and Sam s impressively tight unison riffing provide a solid platform for John and Tanya to add some well-placed splashes of musical colour in one of the album s highlights.
01. Caradon Hill
02. Zephaniah Job
03. The Grayhound
04. Bal Maiden's Waltz
05. Gwrello Glaw
06. The Cinder Track
07. Koh I Noor
08. Delyow Sevi
09. We Will Remember Them
10. Tie 'Em Up
11. It's All Downhill From Here
Picking Up The Pieces is the second album from Cornwall-based folk collective The Changing Room: the multi-award winning collaborative project between Sam Kelly (vocals, guitar) and Tanya Brittain (vocals, accordion), whose 2015 debut Behind The Lace was described by Folk Radio UK as a great set of songs, with a sprinkle of magic (read the review here). Retaining the services of Jamie Francis (banjo), Evan Carson (percussion) and Morrigan Palmer Brown (harp), the new album also features contributions from Kevin McGuire (upright bass), John McCusker (fiddle) and Belinda O Hooley (piano) and it makes a fine follow-up and companion piece to Behind The Lace.
The Cornish connection which featured so strongly and to such good effect in the band s debut is again a major artistic theme which underpins Picking Up The Pieces, and nowhere more so than in the opening Caradon Hill; a lyrical word-picture imagining the hardships of life as a miner in what was the biggest copper mine in the UK in its heyday in the 19th century. Tanya s emotive harmonies reinforce Sam s passionate vocals while John s fiddle weaves in and out of the melody as the midtempo arrangement builds slowly and purposefully to its striking a capella coda.
A loosely biographical account of one of Cornwall s most (in)famous 18th century entrepreneurs provides the inspiration for Zephaniah Job. His financial acumen enabled him to become the greatest single benefactor in the history of the Cornish village of Polperro, managing not only the business side of the smuggling trade but also helping many of the residents by managing their financial affairs, acting as advisor, accountant and banker. The tale of this paragon of enlightened capitalism makes for a joyously celebratory uptempo song. Tanya and Sam take lead vocals in alternate verses, coming together for the refrains, while Jamie and Sam s impressively tight unison riffing provide a solid platform for John and Tanya to add some well-placed splashes of musical colour in one of the album s highlights.
Year 2016 | Folk | FLAC / APE
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