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Burlesque by: Bellowhead List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.28 You Save: £4.71 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 4015698801927 Label: Westpark Manufacturer: Westpark Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Westpark Release Date: September 25, 2006 Studio: Westpark Sales Rank: 1144 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Communication breakdown ?I was really looking forward to hearing the first Bellowhead album in its entirety. A great live band who had built up a cult following and brought on board critics such as Mr Folk, Mike Harding and the music critics from the 'serious' newspapers. Bellowhead could be seen as an English Pogues. Quirky and left field. Offering their own unique interpretations of traditional songs through their all singing all dancing 11 piece instrumental line up. Mixing everything from folk,to rag time,vaudeville,trad jazz and roots, the Bellowhead sound is certainly unique. Unfortunately for me,their strength is in their live performances. Burlesque is quite a way off mark in that it lacks any outstanding tracks and loses so much in its over ... Read More: Rating:  - Brilliant, melodic, genre-defying LPIt's very rare indeed that a band emerges as different and talented as Bellowhead. The 11 piece big-band collective play contemporary, innovative versions of traditional folk songs, which, despite the band's size, have excellent, uncluttered arrangements. Bellowhead is the brainchild of singer / fiddler Jon Boden and melodeon playing John Spiers, both well-known faces on the English folk circuit. One or other of the Jo(h)ns arranged most of the songs on Burlesque or wrote an original melody or reel with the exception of Across The Line and London Town which were arranged by Pete Flood and Paul Sartin respectively, Both highlights, London Town has an almost ska-like feel courtesy of Bellowhead's superb four-piece brass section who ... Read More: Rating: - Big and brassyCrazy, over the top, loads of oompah, fun, masterful, magical. You'll end up listening to this over and over again and loving it more and more each time. In the future this will be seen as a defining moment in folk music history. All power to Jon Boden and his compatriots. Rating: - The way music should beI was minded to write something thoughtful, incisive and intelligent drawing on modern and traditional trends in folk ... I can't be bothered! This is such a great album of great tunes, great arrangements, enthusiastically played with huge sprirt and love. Makes you feel so positive, upbeat and glad to be alive. Rating: - How does one become a Bellowheadhead?Wow! Wow! Wow! What a lovely, scrummy, dreamy, hoppy, happy CD! I bought it on faith, as I'm more or less guaranteed to like any band that is lazily classified as 'unclassifiable'. Now, this isn't actually unclassifiable, and there are precedents - think Squirrel Nut Zippers meet Brass Monkey - but they're doing it their way, and beautifully. First-rate musicianship and gorgeous arrangements, with more brass, strings and multipart harmonies than you can shake a baton at. Also, is it too geeky to praise their musical scholarship? They've really researched their sources, and I admire that. Their version of The Outlandish Night beats almost every other I know of. F.J. Child is applauding in his grave: this is how traditions keep going, through ... Read More: |
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