A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 10:46 PM

Sounds like a plan.

Landfall/Land Fall cover images from Reinhard Zierke's excellent site.

Ross

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: Mysha
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 11:37 AM

Hi,

Ross, if they are, then I don't see them there.
Suibhne, I don't know. To me, the cover looks like a village clinging to the coast at the edge of a sea of very little money.

I think I know only one of the songs on the album: The January man. If it is the song I sing, it does give a link to future generations, but there's nothing about it that would excuse including it on a Waste Dump album. I really don't get it.

Bye,
                                                                  Mysha

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 12:01 PM

Thanks for your fascinating insights, Mysha - but there's really nothing to get, it's just a vague sort of umbrella concept for folkies of all persuasions to come and participate in - to FILL by way of celebrating the LAND - which is the folk-land I suppose. Besides, it's all online, so there'll be no packaging, hard-copy or wasteage of any kind, and there'll be as many versions of any given song as anyone wants to do. If someone has a dozen variants the Cruel Mother, they'll all be welcome here. If we get a hundred different renderings of January Man it just won't be enough. So come and help Fill this thing.

Mostly though, to make it even more obvious, is that the Landfall album is seminal to the folk zeitgeist; these days maybe Landfill would have been more appropriate. These things are of grave concern to me, the sort of mess we're leaving for future generations to clear up - such concerns are part of the folk zeitgeist now. They are to me anyway. A play on words you see?

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: Stringsinger
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 01:15 PM

"Pave paradise and put up a parking lot" (Joni Mitchell)) doesn't exactly relate to landfill but it's the same idea.

Removing land to compact waste products is a big picture involving the nuclear energy problems as well.

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: RTim
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 01:30 PM

Is the SoundCloud site for this going to be re-established?

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 02:14 PM

Yes. Once I've got the promised tracks in I'll be putting the whole lot as mp3s onto Sound Cloud. You only get 2 hours, but you can always open another page!

For the New Blog, please send any pictures / biographical info you think appropriate.

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 02:13 PM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: GUEST,Banjiman
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 04:27 PM

Somehow missed this.

We'll give you a song (Could be another version of Cruel Mother!)if you want one from us. Would that be acceptable (Wendy is a floor singer at times!)?

Paul

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 04:33 PM

I thought the title related to a large hole in the ground that needed to be filled...and someone had suggested filling it with folkies...

;0)

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 04:58 PM

That's about the essense of it, Lizzie - and this is open to anyone no matter what - floorsinger, semi-pro, pro, anyone who is moved to sing any of these songs or else variants thereof.

Though it wouldf be nice that whatever you contribute hasn't appeared elsewere... remix? alt take? singing in the bath?

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: Rog Peek
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 06:21 PM

Reminded me of this one:

BOTTOM OF THE LAND, PHIL
(Robert Hoyt)

Where are those things you've worked for all your life
Where are the objects of your joy
Where are those things that you've come to expect
Where are the winner's toys

Chorus
Where will you find your place among things
Where will you find your strength
Where will you find the national will
It's all there in the bottom of the land, Phil

Garbage and peas and expired cheese
Good things no one'll ever taste
Paper galore and old two-by-fours
Whole forests laid to waste

Chorus

Well you won't get my cash and I'll steel your trash
Why should I spend it in your corporate store
You can compact it all to hell, but you can't hide the smell
And I'll still be hangin' 'round your back door.

Chorus
Free the trash!

Rog

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 04:34 AM

Please read the OP before cluttering this up with irrelavancies. This thread is not about waste disposal or songs about waste disposal.

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 06:46 AM

I may be up for this, but I know only the Bellowhead verson. Unless you'd be happy with just a version of the songs on the list...

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 09:02 AM

Again:

This project is open to anyone who has A VERSION OF or A VARIANT OF any of the songs that appear on Martin Carthy's Landfall album. By variant it could be simply another version, or else a different piece entirely that uses a particular song as a starting point (we have one such instrumental promised) or else a remix; creative sampling welcomed too (we have one such which uses samples of Dust to Dust).

The remit is wide enough for pretty much anyone to interpret this as they wish really; field-recordings, home recordings, studio recordings, YouTube videos, pictures, scans, photographs...

No limits on the number of tracks either!

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Apr 11 - 04:21 AM

"Sorry, the blog at thelandfillproject.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs."


???!!!

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 08 Apr 11 - 04:35 AM

???!!!

Nothing on-line right now. Go back a few posts for the full story - 30 Mar 11 - 09:16 AM. Hmmm - not much of a story anyway - basically I pulled the whole thing because of i) lack of interest and ii) lack of time to chase up contributers, much less lack of inclination to do so. However, soon as I did so I recieved a splendid January Man from esteemed mudcatter and much pressure from certain quarters to re-open it. So - it goes back on line as & when there's enough contributions to make it worthwhile.

All welcome! Come one, come all!

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: DavidKidman
Date: 08 Apr 11 - 05:09 AM

Good news...
I'll be emailing or PM-ing you, Sean, once I've got this week out of the way!!!

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: Rog Peek
Date: 08 Apr 11 - 05:10 AM

S.A. I missed the point, I apologise.

Rog

Subject: RE: A Call to All Folk Singers: Landfill Project
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 08 Apr 11 - 12:04 PM

I shall email you soonish. I prefer his Broomfield Hill melody to Bellowhead's anyway.