Everything The Memory Band do, however varied, is done to a high level. Their music is always interesting, often strange, and usually beautiful, and A Common Treasury is the perfect place to hear it.
Stephen Cracknell’s ‘The Memory Band’ returns with new album ‘Colours’. Watch the accompanying video for Albion’s Daughter, inspired by the poetry of William Blake.
While it’s tempting to situate albums like A Fair Field under the broad ‘hauntology’ banner, this is no dry exercise in pastoral retro-futurism. Rather it is a varied, heartfelt set of tunes that also happens to be a valid and enlightening social document.
On their fifth album The Memory Band return once more to the ghost-lit back-roads of British traditional music where digital machinery and acoustic musicians congregate to make old music from the future.
On their latest release ‘On The Chalk’ The Memory Band present their discoveries with more appeal, sincerity and originality than many a self-appointed guardian of tradition.
The Memory Band now in their tenth year release their fourth studio album On The Chalk (Our Navigation of the Line of the Downs) next month & will celebrating with a live show at the Vortex in Dalston on 7th May.
Stephen Cracknell of the English folk collective The Memory Band recently put together a great mix featuring a wide spectrum of artists from Sandy Denny to Softcell! You can listen to it below. We’ve also included a great video of Stephen performing the track ‘Demon Days’ with Liam Bailey.
The Balearic Folk Orchestra came about as a result of a conversation about what makes a great house track. Now, together with a group of like-minded friends including Serafina Steer and Olivia Chaney, they re-interpret classic acid house tunes and balearic beats in an acoustic style.
