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Low Culture
by: Jim Moray
List Price: £13.99CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £4.01 (29%)Prices subject to change.
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0844493092131
Label: Niag Records
Manufacturer: Niag Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Niag Records
Release Date: July 14, 2008
Studio: Niag Records
Sales Rank: 1241
Disc 1:- Leaving Australia
- The Rufford Park Poachers
- Three Black Feathers
- All You Pretty Girls
- Lucy Wan
- Across The Western Ocean
- I'll Go List For A Sailor
- Fanny Blair
- Henry's Downfall
- Valentine
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Like the new record by Eliza Carthy, 'Dreams of Breathing Underwater', this is for me perfect modern folk music, bringing to it vibrancy and innovation without sacrificing its earthy, local nature. Unusual instruments work very well; and who would have thought (certainly I would never that believed it) that rap could find its way onto a record like this and somehow work. The problem with music like this is its classification, because it transcends labels like 'folk', whilst 'Modern folk', or 'new folk' seem contrived. Well, that is another problem; but anyone with an open mind should enjoy this.
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For those who loved Jim's first album 'Sweet England' but had a slightly harder time with the second, eponymous, release, have no fear. The man is back on form in a big way.
This is a tremendous album that has innovation ('Leaving Australia') and sensitive interpretation of traditional material in equal measure. Jim clearly has such a good feel for the folk material that he can bend it into almost any shape successfully. Well almost. I personally would skip the track where Jim attempts to introduce rap into an incest and murder ballad ('Lucy Wan'). But this is the only slight misstep on what is otherwise a tremendous collection.
For anyone with even a passing interest in folk music, and hearing it in an updated context rather than ... Read More:
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