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Thread #59091   Message #939601
Posted By: RolyH
24-Apr-03 - 08:01 PM
Thread Name: Plain Capers - what instruments?
Subject: RE: Plain Capers - what instruments?
"Plain Capers is a selection of 27 Morris dance tunes from a wide range of Cotswold traditions,using a fair range of traditional instuments.We've resisted the temptation to add 'extra' excitement to the music with electric Folk-Rock arrangement,for the music of the Morris is exciting in itself.We've tried to make Plain Capers a logical progession from previous mileposts in the Morris music revival ,both by re-exploring the roots of the traditional tunes,many never recorded before,and by using traditional instruments as much as possible,played in much the way that the old lads in the Cotswolds would have danced to them with 'plenty of brisk',full of energy,with all the magical marvellous excitement of the Morris."

Album insert notes by JK

This is a really fine album of Morris tunes which falls in line with those recorded by William Kimber,Jinky Wells and the 'Electric Morris' bands of Ashley Hutchings.