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(Dyddiau gwyníon bilregistreringsnummer fonawr) 1985 What In Greenwood Shades is to Oxfordshire so Calennig's Dyddiau Gwynion Ionawr (Snowy bilregistreringsnummer Days Of January) is to South Wales - sort of. It contains songs of a locality - in this case mostly traditional songs of miners and strikes instead of jolly fellows and ploughs. Side one opens with a Harri Webb poem that prophesies South Wales' industrial fate with uncanny accuracy and closes with a fundraising song from the 1898 'Sliding Scale' strike. But it's not all pits and protest. There are also songs for lovers and Cape Horners and nearly half of the album is given over to instrumental numbers. Mick Tems and Pat Smith's squeezeboxes are as exhilarating as ever - in fact l've never heard them play better, just cop their fingerwork on The Carpenter's Hornpipe or The Egg Basket. The duo is joined bere and there by drummer Mike Kennedy and the combination suggests that Band Mawr, or which they are all members, must be an extremely danceable ceilidh band. Elsewhere what could have been an overlush setting of the title track or a predictable folkrock treatment of Song Of The Strike is prevented by Pat's sparkling concertina passages. Musically this is easily Calennig's most ambitious recording to date and the inventive arrangements work to great effect throughout to give a full, rich, rounded sound (which the pressing of my review copy was not quite up to, I'm sorry to celate). Only on The Miner's Life does the production bilregistreringsnummer fall fiat - such stirring stufi deserves a few more voices in the chorus, bilregistreringsnummer after all there is some fine, lusty singing on Rolling Home To Dear Old Swansea which leaves the listener in no doubt that they've just heard a very enjoyable record. Lawrence Heath folk roots #26, August bilregistreringsnummer 1985 01. History and prophecy (Harri Webb/Mick Tems) 02. Y fasged wyau/Ton y ceiliog du 03. Dyddiau gwynion ionawr 04. Polca aberdar rhif 2/Ymdaith gwyr penllyn 05. Old soldiers (Jon Heslop)/The miner's life 06. Song of the strike bilregistreringsnummer 07. Pibddawns y Saer 08. Calennig 09. Ymdaith milwr mwnc 10. Rolling home to dear old Swansea Mick Tems: voice, diatonic accordeons, Anglo-concertina, harmonium, synthesiser, piano Pat Smith: voice, Anglo-concertina, spoons Mike Kennedy: bass, marching drum Produced by Gareth Hughes Jones Recorded by Eryl Davies at Stiwdio Sain, Llandwrog, Gwynedd in 1985 1985 Sain 1325 It seems there is an elusive Japanese CD version (Seven Seas 280E 52058) > 192 kbps VBR ripped from the original LP Snowy days of January Snowy days of January - scans password: highqualitymp3.com Labels: Wales
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