New music featured on this week’s Folk Show includes a track from Damien McGeehan‘s (Fidil) new album Kin as well as Oysterband‘s new single The Time is Now, taken from their forthcoming new album Read the Sky (read more here).
Scattered in amongst the tunes are street sounds and a couple of charms. The charm recordings were made in 1937 and read in English, then Finnish. One is for toothache, read by Anna Leino Ely and recorded in Minnesota (she was born in Torinio, in Finnish Lapland). The other is a charm is for hiccups, read by Cecilia Kuitunen, again recorded in Minessota, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia; she was born to Finnish parents.
There’s a couple of nice remixes in there as well, including one by The Memory Band.
I like to mix things up sometimes. Enjoy.
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Folk Show: Episode 108 Playlist
- 9Bach – Anian: Written And Voiced By Rhys Ifans (extract)
- 9Bach – Anian (from Anian)
- Damien McGeehan – Dúlamán Na Binne Búidhe (from Kin)
- Oysterband – The Time Is Now
- Chris Wood – Summerfield Avenue (from Trespasser)
- Alasdair Roberts – Waxwing (from The Amber Gatherers)
- O’Hooley & Tidow – Peculiar Brood (from The Hum)
- Anna Leino – Charm For Toothache
- Lleuwen – Y Garddwr (from Gwn Glan Beibl Budr)
- Bendith – Lliwiau (from Bendith)
- Rhona Dalling – Walk Me Round (from Walk Me Round)
- The Owl Service – Ladies, Don’t Go a-Thieving (from The View From A Hill)
- Cecilia Kuitunen – Charm For Hiccups
- Sam Lee – The Ballad of George Collins (The Memory Band mix)
- The Imagined Village – Cold, Hailey, Rainy Night (It’s Turned Out Nice remix by Stabilizer)
- Mairi Morrison and Alasdair Roberts – Mile Marbhphaisg Air A’ Ghaol (from Urstan)
- Alaw – Stones (from Dead Man’s Dance)
- The Watersons – Coal Not Dole (Live) (from The Carthy Chronicles)
The photo is from Hungary in 1977 (Jókai Mór street at Vitorlás tér, to the left, is the mushroom and bazaar row, opposite the harbour).
Photo Credit: Fortepan / Tamás Urbán