Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 11:10 AM

Skipjack - Thanks but No Thanks.. Or are you talking about brushed swaid thigh boots that sould be " Brushed " once a week . Yours in confusion . Guy

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 04:48 PM

Brush me, daddyo!

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 10:22 AM

SINK ME. "They seek him here they seek him there those Frenchys seek him everywhare. Is he in heaven or is he in Gox-hell , That Dained elusive PIMPERNELL !! " Rather good WHAT !!??
             I want some thigh boots . !!!   Yours in pain ( Not really) , Guy

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: GUEST,ossonflags
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 03:50 AM

Never knew you was an "Ant Music" fan,Oakers.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Oaklet
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 12:06 PM

Guy, don't tell Skipjack about the albums. He is a dandy highwayman and racketeer in thigh boots and over-sized cuffs. So there.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 04:44 PM

Well we had a gig on Saterday and I sold 17 cd's 2 of the First 3 of the second and 1 of the third and then 11 of the Litchfield early dance music one that just came out ( finaly ) .
               Oaklet I hope you are selling them "like Snake Oil on a hot day"
               Coolest part of the concert was meeting Pete Seeger's Older Brother John who was the best audence anyone could ask for. Mike Pete John and I think Peggy Seeger just got together in Bridgwater CT for a family event. The music most have been something! All the best . Guy

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: GUEST,ossonflags
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 03:40 AM

I am into minimilist, me.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Oaklet
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 06:42 AM

Oss, please don't get so carried away and stop gobbling-up bandwidth with your endless analysis of the musical nuances in this album.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: GUEST,ossonflags
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 07:39 AM

It,s nice.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: artbrooks
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 10:15 PM

'Course, if Oakley gets a PayPal account, then I'll be honor (that's honour for you UKers) bound to pay for it. And it will be worth every kopek and zlotney!

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Oaklet
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 03:21 PM

You are very welcome, Mr Wolff.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 03:40 PM

Good luck with the upcoming gigs and Thnks for the information on getting the CD . All the best . Guy

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 11:37 AM

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: GUEST,POLTROON
Date: 22 Oct 03 - 11:52 AM

CAN WE NOW DO SOMETHING TO PROMOTE GOXHILL, SW OF HORNSEA?

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: GUEST,POLTROON
Date: 22 Oct 03 - 11:50 AM

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Oaklet
Date: 22 Oct 03 - 10:27 AM

Guy, the website www.carasmusic.com will eventually have a Paypal thingy to buy the CD on-line but I unfortunately upset the web designer who took humberage, downed-mouse for a week then went on holiday. Until the site is running, the best way to get hold of a copy is to email me at [e-mail] I'll email an order form with a cordial invitation to provide a cheque for £12 each (inc p+p for delivery within the UK).

If there is interest from further afield, we'll convert £12 into the appropriate currency, assess the postage cost and advise the actual amount as I e-mail the form. Cumbersome I know but the we site will, I am assured, be fully operational in November-ish.

We have gigs coming up at which we'll be selling copies of both albums (or at least accepting orders - we don't do "pushy" at all well) and I'll publicise Cara's forthcoming gigs via new threads. You'll need to know where to turn up anyway in order to perform with us.

I have taken your advice and put my name down for a racy little Vespa 125 in pillar-box red because it is a great plan indeed, Mr Wolff.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 05:32 PM

OK Mr Oaklet you now have to get a little capitolistic and tell people how to Buy this wonderful CD !! I know I know starving artists and all that but realy If this cd breaks even just think of it next year you can do it all over again !! We will all have more good music and you can buy a second hand vespa from the profits. Its a plan . Not a great plan but a plan . All the best Guy

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 07:24 PM

heloo, i dident heard it yet as well,
i but i heard its really nive c, so im' goingf to buy it next time i ee oaklet,
9 i might go to thsat barton place tomorowow and buy it then,
sonembody told me its really nice, but i forgot who it was, it might be basic, or smallpilers, or noreen, i dont knoew, i forgot.john

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 05:37 PM

Bassic thank you <><><> thank you . I have a segment to do at the end of the Month with an American TV personality . 12 million americans will see the show and now I have a new CAUSE (or 2) to stand up for !!! FREE Goxhill FREE Goxhill FREE Goxhill   FREE Goxhill      FREE Goxhill ... FREE Goxhill from the terany of the opressor !!
      And on "Elocution Hamsters for the Phonetically challenged". The very sizable check you desirve is in the mail. God bless you for the good work you and Xavier are doing .   Ah a tear><><> All the best , a very inspired Guy Wolff

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Bassic
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 11:52 AM

Guy, I passed your question on to the appropriate authority, this was the response I received.

The European Sub Regional Development Commission.

Dear Guy,

To the best of my knowledge these three chaps, John, Mick and Dave, are just 3 fellas who play music on a wednesday night in a pub in Goxhill. It is the nearest thing that Goxhill has had to culture in all of its 27 year history, (or however long it was since they built the railway).

Goxhill is in the middle of nowhere, just off the main road to the back of beyond. I, and some of my friends, occasionally do missionary work over there in the hope of spreading enlightenment and giving hope to a forgotten collection of shanty town shacks clinging to a meagre existence within terrible scenes of deprivation.

I can only say how proud we all are that our cultural "seeds" have born such fruit and say how much sales of this CD means to the economy of the area. No longer will the people of Goxhill have to "kow tow" to the great god of the "toilet roll" factory in Barton of pay tribute of the overlords of Barrow. Goxhill is now on the international map thanks to these chaps. Special thanks to you Guy for helping to spread word of this charity CD across the world.

Our next project is to raise money for "Elocution Hamsters for the Phonetically challenged". An outreach project running in East Hull.

Please give generously.

Hope this answers your interesting question Guy.

Xavier,
Customer response executive,
European Commission,
Brussels,
Belgium

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 11:01 AM

I was particularly looking forward to hearing the "Tiled Cardington Hangar" effect.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 11:01 AM

David, I still haven't heard it.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Alio
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 08:58 AM

Looking forward to seeing Cara in person at Saddleworth festival next July.

Ali

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 08:43 AM

Ah Skipjack ! Traditionalisum at its finast in a modern world !! Good luck with your " Independent ( wink wink say no more say no more) Prodject " .
             Bassic being an old stick in the mud who dose not get out much I dont even know who or what Goxhill Folklore is . Please enlighten me so I can expound on something I know nothing about . All the very best regards here. Guy

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 05:08 AM

.... ahem, Guy, I fear my tribute Cara CD "The Notes For The Stoned" has somehow got lost in the mail, but I have taken the liberty of lifting your carefully crafted appraisal for use as sleeve notes on the second pressing. However, fearing that writs will be flying like confetti from these litigious men, I have changed all the names used to my own, and if revisionist history is kind, I should be able to clean up on royalties as well.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Oaklet
Date: 19 Oct 03 - 10:18 AM

Art, As you know, I am an accomplished (but not very qualified) CD-drawer mechanic. Do you want me to bring my tools round again? Thanks for the kind words.

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: artbrooks
Date: 19 Oct 03 - 09:26 AM

Once again, a truly wonderful presentation. It hasn't been out of by PC's CD player since I got it...I think the drawer is stuck...

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Oaklet
Date: 19 Oct 03 - 08:47 AM

Thanks Guy, for that wonderful account and for taking the trouble to share your uncanny and very personal experience of the fruit of Cara's musical year. See separate thread entitled "Guy Wolff joins Cara".

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Bassic
Date: 18 Oct 03 - 10:55 AM

Ey up Mick! Nice to see you here! Where do I send the cheque for Guy???
Seriously though, its a terrific review and very well deserved. I am very pleased that Guy explained the musical influences at work on the CD. I thought it was all from that great and ancient tradition of Goxhill Folklore myself!! *grin*. Wishing you and the chaps every success.

Gordon

Subject: RE: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: GUEST,mr
Date: 18 Oct 03 - 10:18 AM

This is a lovely and much appreciated commentary

Subject: Review: Cara, Notes in the Stone
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 17 Oct 03 - 11:21 AM

.   Hello all.
                   I did look though the database to see if anyone had started this thread yet. I hope I am not doubling up here.
                   Well I got my copy of "The Notes in the Stones" . When Cara put out there first CD "Asleep Behind the Settee" I was first touched by the friendship one hears in their playing together. This is even more evident in this CD and along the way these guys are maturing as a group.
        It is astounding to find wonderful intuitive new tunes coming out of the air around David Oakley . "The Notes In The Stones" is a perfect name for this CD because you cant get tunes this good all by yourself . The tunes really do have to come from someplace.
        I would use the word intuitive a lot to describe this cd.
            1)Pat and Sarah : Mike Ryan has opened the CD with a wonderful song of love home and life in transition held together by the music.
                  2) Noreen's Waltz : A very joyous lively waltz that I expect dicribes our very own muddcatter Noreen .
          3)Sliabh na Mhann /Munster Cloak /Dusty Windowsills: These three tunes are just amazing and grow in pace all the way to the end. . They talk about the third being from Chicago. Captain ONeel of the Chicago police department gave a lot of great fiddlers from Ireland jobs so he could compile their music so who knows it origins.
                  4) Little Tune : This is a very sensitive tune and Oakley at his best.
                  5) Im On Me Break /Two Red Brick Houses : These tunes sound northern to me and have a great presence.
                    6) Hazel : This is my favorite work on this cd. It shows the very close relationship between these guys and Davis's genius as a tune writer. The guitar work on this the perfect
                     7) The Bittern /Jackson's Jig: These tunes are somewhere between Northern English and Celtic in a perfect spot that belongs to Cara. Just great music.
                     8) Looking Down From Aughagad: This is a tune with Fiddle and a low D whistle ( I think ) . They work great together.
                     9)The Bereaved Fiddler: The balance between the thoughts and words of the song and the addition of the fiddle are just brilliant !
                     10)Till Dawn; I like what Ryan wrote on this one in the liner notes. "Only Oakley understood this tune until John made sense of it for the rest of us ." This quote really explains these musicians. They are after hearing each other to the core first and this is there real strength and why this cd is such a success!
                     11)A Fair day At Athleague: Gentle and far away .
                     12) Cross The Bridge Over The Suck To Castlecoote / The Slippery Hand: These are both great tunes . The waltz is again Northern in feel and I am glad Oakley slowed the reel down (a little ) and cut and dotted it into a hornpipe !
                       13) The Mayfly: And so the CD ends in a introspective place that fits Cara to a tee. Oakley's tune craft opens to Ryan's song with John holding it all together.
                     This is not a CD to miss. Congratulations to Cara all three . If I lived in Great Briton I would be trying to join the band !!