Featuring the Afro Celts, Teddy Thompson, Eliza Carthy, Green Gartside, Jackie Oates, Marry Waterson, Stealing Sheep, Honeyfeet and lots more, there’s more than enough invention, inspiration and at times outright eccentricity to ensure there’s something that’ll push your instant replay button.
There are big projects, there are gargantuan labours of love, and then there is this. The Self Preservation Society is an ambitious vinyl collection of songs from the late 1960s and early 1970s performed by the likes Eliza Carthy, Teddy Thompson, Marry Waterson and many others.
Sheema Mukherjee gives FRUK an exclusive insight into her debut solo LP, a vivacious vinyl treat that takes her classical Indian sitar skills into a bold new fusion of sound.
A vinyl only release promising to put the special back into buying music sounds a great idea and Sheema Mukherjee and ECC100 have absolutely nailed it with the sumptuous, charming Sheema.
Read our interview with Simon Emmerson of the Imagined Village in which he discusses their latest release ‘Bending the Dark’, he talks about some of the dificulties faced in making the album alongside some of the more exhilarating.
