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Verderop komen de superlatieven die ik van harte deel. Een prachtig album, ze zouden zo bij je in de huiskamer kunnen staan. Ze vullen elkaar naadloos aan en hebben inzicht in de muziek. Zeer fraai. 

What an exquisite album! Beautiful voices that harmonise to perfection, superlative instrumental work, and songs both new and old yet all somehow familiar and timeless. Ink of the Rosy Morning: A Sampling of Folk Songs from Britain and North America is a lockdown album that captures the spontaneity that few of us felt during that dark time. 

“We’ve known a lot of these songs for a very long time and when you’ve known songs for that long, you don’t think about it, you just play them.” And inhabit them.

The sound is beautiful, close-miked, live. You can visualise Sanders and Savage face to face around a single mic, each watching the other intently, breathing in unison, and you can hear every strummed and plucked detail of guitars and dobro, including that always-nostalgic squeak of fingers on brand-new strings. The intimacy is breath-taking.

The pacing is perfect, the intense rhythms of the opening songs, “Winter’s Night” and “Polly O Polly”, drawing you in immediately and giving way to the meditative “When First I Came to Caledonia”, a narrative song of longing and homesickness familiar from Waterson:Carthy and from which comes the album’s title.

The two new songs on the album fit perfectly: their own “A-Life, A-Lie”, and “River Don’t Run”, Richard Guard and Anna Crockett’s evocative telling of the destruction of lives in Agar Town in the 1860s as St Pancras Railway Station was expanded. It could be a song about HS2, cutting a swathe through much the same area of North London. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Which sort of sums up the folk process.

Ink of the Rosy Morning is deeply satisfying and fulfilling. I can’t wait to hear more.

Tracks:
01. A Winter's Night (03:26)
02.  Polly O Polly (02:55)
03. When First I Came to Caledonia (04:09)
04. Lovely Joan (04:18)
05. False True Love (03:39)
06. A-Life A-Lie (04:00)
07. Sweet Nightingale (04:11)
08. Earl Richard (04:11)
09. Lark in the Morning (02:26)
10. River Don't Run (04:52)

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgb5N7qDLfM