Blackletter Garland Hack-Poets Guild

• 1 Ten Tongues 03:16
• 2 Daring Highwayman 02:57
• 3 The Devil's Cruelty 05:30
• 4 Laying The Ghost 03:31
• 5 Birds Of Harmony 06:07
• 6 Hemp & Flax 02:36
• 7 Something To Love Me 03:12
• 8 Meat For Worms 04:17
• 9 The Troubles Of This World 03:41
• 10 Rare Receipts 05:42
• 11 Be Kind To Each Other 03:10
• 12 Cruel Mother 06:25
• Total Runtime 50:24

Info zu Blackletter Garland

The debut album from the brand-new collaboration between three of UK folk’s most unique and prestigious voices; Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann. ‘Blackletter Garland’ by Hack-Poets Guild boasts twelve fascinating interpretations and original compositions that tell intricate tales of birth, love, conflict and death, with all the imagination of the folklore from which they’re based.

Inspired by historic broadside ballads, the trio rejuvenate and reinvent these stories, bringing them vividly to life for a new generation. Following an invite to the Bodleian Library by Sound UK Arts, the disposable song sheets (that would’ve once sold for pence, and were the forerunners of modern news media) gave a rare insight into the past whilst striking a chord with themes still relevant today. Celebrated film composer and multi-instrumentalist Gerry Diver helped in their exploration as a producer, and in adding fresh ideas to these past texts.

Across the album anecdotal, descriptive yarns are spun to a backdrop of atmospheric strings, rustic instrumentation and elegant vocal harmonies used precisely to communicate the victims as easily as they do the villains. The result is a compelling and thoroughly enjoyable balance between the traditional and contemporary.

Hack-Poets Guild are:
Lisa Knapp, vocals
Marry Waterson, vocals, fiddle, autoharp
Nathaniel Mann, vocals, bowed banjo, electronics
Additional musicians:
Barney Morse Brown, cello with pedals
Lawrence Hunt, percussion
Pete Flood, percussion
Gerry Diver, additional instruments

Produced & mixed by Gerry Diver

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