MT CD-ROMs

The Complete Musical Traditions

 
Volume 9         [Reviews]

MTCD2006   £10.00   For all computers and operating systems

Containing the entire output of the Magazine, from both its 'paper'
and 'virtual' publications, 1983-2007

 
 

Morris Dancing in the English
south Midlands 1660-1900

[Review]         Aspects of Social and Cultural History

For all computers and operating systems   MTCD250   £12.00

The great majority of Keith Chandler's writings on the Cotswold Morris, including two complete books - Ribbons, Bells and Squeaking Fiddles and the Chronological Gazeteer - an unpublished article on the Forest of Dean Morris, 6 other long articles and 8 shorter ones. All specially updated for this edition, and with dozens of unpublished photos.

 

Italian CDs

Gruppo Sonadùr di Ponte Caffaro

 
La m'va benone         [Review]   [Tracklist]

LID/CD08   £10.00   12 tracks, 27 minutes

A great selection of the non-ritual dance tunes played alongside the Ponte Caffaro carnevale.

 
 

Tenores 'San Gavino' de Oniferi

[Tracklist]   [Review]         E prite tottu custu

Dunya fy8118   10 tracks   53 minutes   £12.00

'I absolutely adore the Oniferi style, their cohesion, their true passion for singing.  I love Francesco, that crazy shepherd who has in his mind millions of verses and who is able to change them or improvise 'out of the blue'.  I love their pure and uncontaminated style.  I don't know if this is the best cantu a tenores album of all time, but I'm really happy, enthusiastic and proud to have released it.  For me, it's their very best.  It's a gem, and very very few can come close to it.' - Beppe Greppi, Felmay Records.

 

Franco Melis

 
Launeddas         [Review]   [Tracklist]

ISCA 0002   £12.00   8 tracks, 42 minutes

Brilliant 2003 digital recordings of the Sardinian triple-pipes.  Melis plays in the style of the old masters, and is just superb.

 
 

Ritmia

This CD is brilliant - one of those records I'd heard of but never heard in the mid '90s, despite playing soprano sax at the time.  Few soprano players are able to do both wailing and staccato effectively.  I'm not a great fan of guitar, but I thought the playing was outstanding, with no debts to pop styles albeit some debts to north African oud - Steve Harrison     [Tracklist]   [Review]       forse il mare

Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 004   £5.00   4 tracks   37 minutes

The truly wonderful Italian/Sardinian quartet of Riccardo Tesi, Alberto Balia, Enrico Frongia and Daniele Craighead, first published in 1986.  Maybe the most effective attempt at making European traditional music accessible to the modern listener without pop, rock or drum & bass.

 

Suoni d'Irpinia, Vol 3

 
Balli e canti tradizionali in Irpinia         [Review]   [Tracklist]

Taranta Ethnica TA020   £12.00   19 tracks, 79 minutes

Brilliant polyvocal and accompanied songs from Campagnia; 2000 recordings

 
 

Compagnia Sonadùr di Ponte Caffaro

[Tracklist]   [Review]         Pas en Amùr

A C Barabàn ACBCD05   £12.00   30 tracks   77 minutes

The complete Ponte Caffaro carnevale repertoire, superb 1993 live recordings

 
 

Ballos Sardos Vol 1

[Tracklist]   [Review]         Various performers

Taranta Ethnica TA015   £12.00   25 tracks   78 minutes

A brilliant anthology of Sardinian dance music - accordions, launeddas, guitars, cantu á tenores, etc. 1987/96 recordings

 

Sard Polyphonies

 
Various cantu á tenores and coro       [Review]   [Tracklist]

Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 003   £5.00   20 tracks   78 minutes

A compilation of the superb 1979-91 benchmark field recordings of the cantu á tenores genre, and Sardinian sacred coro polyphony.
Booklet in English.

 
 

Rice Girls

[Tracklist]   [Review]       Women's Songs from the Ricefields and Farms

Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 001   £5.00   21 tracks   63 minutes

Fabulous female polyvocality in the Po valley - 1950s and '60s.
Booklet in English.

 

Other CDs

Bayou Seco

 
More Memories in Cababi         [Review]   [Tracklist]

ZERX 062   £12.00   20 tracks, 72 minutes

The tunes of Elliott Johnson, the great Tohono O'odham fiddler.  CD re-issue of the superb Memories in Cababi cassette, with 11 newly recorded additional tracks.

 
 

Gordon Hall

[Tracklist]     Good Things Enough

Country Branch CBCD095   £12.00   11 tracks   68 minutes

Dedicated to the immortal memory of Gordon Hall. His only CD - back in stock again

 

Bob Lewis

 
The Painful Plough     [Review]    [Tracklist]

RUST105   £12.00   17 tracks   60 minutes

Brand new recordings of the fine Sussex singer

 
 

The English Country Dance Band

[Tracklist]     Barn Dance

Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 002   £5.00   14 tracks   57 minutes

26 tunes for 14 dances with full dance instructions

 

Phoenix

 
after the fire   [Review]   [Tracklist]

Firebird Records FBR 001.   16 tracks, 76 mins   £10.00

An English music band featuring Kevin Bown: piano and double bass; Martin Brinsford: harmonicas; Mike Pinder: fiddle, banjo mandolin; Rod Stradling: melodeons; and Fran Wade: fiddle.

An hour and a quarter's worth of gloriously played hornpipes, jigs, polkas and more, from England and across the world.

 
 

Will Duke

[Tracklist]     Out of the Box

Country Branch CBCD235   £12.00   19 tracks   64 minutes

20 tunes and 6 songs from this great English singer and superlative anglo concertina player