Snow On Snow
The Albion Christmas Band
Talking Elephant TECD135 (CD, UK, November 10, 2008)
Recorded at Rooksmere Studios, Overstone, Northamtonshire; Recorded and produced by Mark Hutchinson; Design by Malcolm Holmes
musicians
Kellie While, vocals, acoustic guitar, shaker; Simon Care, spoken words, melodeon, concertina, percussion; Ashley Hutchings, vocals, spoken words, electric bass guitar; Simon Nicol, vocals, spoken words, acoustic guitars, banjo
With guests: Guy Fletcher, violin, mandolin, drums, percussion; David Tobin, cornamuse, recorder; Mark Hutchinson, keyboards, percussion |
tracks
- The Seven Joys of Mary (3.48)
- The Month of January (4.10)
- Much Wenlock (0.32)
- Border Morris Medley (4.08)
- Comfort and Joy (4.51)
- The Thames Frozen Over (2.12)
- Humours upon the Ice (4.36)
- The Adderbury Wassail (2.39)
- Sleet (0.47)
- The Frozen Man (4.09)
- The Cherry Tree Carol (3.57)
- Winter (1.42)
- In the Bleak Midwinter (4.21)
- The Shepherd's Carol (0.57)
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1.42)
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing (3.19)
- I Love This Time of Year the Best (4.06)
- Well, So That Is That (1.21)
- The January Man (4.11)
All tracks trad. arr. The Albion Christmas Band, except Track 3 a description of Wales Border Morris; Track 5 Clive Gregson; Track 6 excerpt from Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Track 7 anon., Ashley Hutchings, Simon Care, Simon Nicol; Track 9 poem by Norman MacCaig; Track 10 James Taylor; Track 12 poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins; Track 13 C. Rosetti / Gustav Holst arr. The Albion Christmas Band; Track 14 poem by Norman Nicholson; Track 15 anon. arr. Simon Care; Track 16 Charles Wesley arr. The Albion Christmas Band; Track 17 Ashley Hutchings, Kelly While, Simon Nicol; Track 18 excerpt from a poem by W.H. Auden; Track 19 Dave Goulder |
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