Jim Moray
I never thought I would ever again hear a version of ' Early One Morning' that had the power to move and exite my musical senses. Nor did I expect to hear a better version of the Raggle-taggle gypsies than Planxty's from their first album of 30-odd years ago. So someone who can take these utterly familiar cliches/canonical texts of folk music and give them fresh life is quite out of the ordinary. Once again, it was our blessing and Norfolk's curse that the place was half empty. How can people be so deaf and blind to their cultural heritage?
posted by Paul Levy @ 8:02 pm
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Hear hear; and it's not as if the bloke hasn't had media coverage! But probably not the Soaraway Sun.
Count your blessings. Limoges' recent claim to musical fame has been (and I use that term advisedley)'Fishbone'!
Kind of sticks in your throat, don't it? Still, price of diesel must be a compensation.
I was interested to see that the Guardian reviewer went to the Jim Moray concert at the ICA the night after we saw him and gave him just two stars (out of five) because 1)he didn't much like the techno/folk fusion and 2)the volume was too high and there was a lot of distortion. I think I'd agree with him on the latter point to a certain extent: Jim Moray needs a new mixing desk supremo. As it happens I am available . . .
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