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 01. "Folklore" 02. "London Plane" 03. "Along The Ridgeway" 04. "Salisbury Giant" 05. "The Transit Of Venus Across The Sun" 06. "Wassail" 07. "Winkie" 08. "Brooklands" 09. "Telling The Bees"
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| | Description: | Folklore by Big Big Train, released 7 December 2017.
This version of Folklore comes as a 1xCD. - 2016 album from the acclaimed progressive rock band. Big Big Train return with Folklore, their ¬ first full-length studio album since the award winning English Electric. Folklore contains nine new songs with a total running time of 68 minutes. Despite the album title, Folklore is by no means a collection of traditional-sounding folk music pieces. On Folklore, Big Big Train are reimagining and breathing new life into traditional themes, and also creating a few new ones along the way. The crafts of songwriting and storytelling beat strongly at the heart of the Big Big Train and inform every track on the album. Folklore features the same line up (eight piece band and brass quintet) that performed three sell out shows at Kings Place in London last summer, with the addition of a string quartet. The experience of bringing this complex music to the concert stage has honed the band's sound, making Folklore a focused and exciting listening experience. All the hallmarks of the Big Big Train sound can be found here: powerful and emotional vocal delivery, and dramatic extended song arrangements which showcase the musical ability within the band.Digipak with a stapled-in 24-page booklet.
[Recording Details]
Vocals and double bass recorded at Aubitt Studios.
Drums recorded at Real World Studios and at Sweetwater Studios.
Brass recorded at Real World Studios by.
Strings recorded at Ashwood Studios and at Regal Lane Studios.
Thank you to Simon Chadwick for the sample of King Alfred?s Blowing Stone
English Electric Recordings 2016
www.bigbigtrain.com
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HYUNG RAE K. - 11/Dec/2021  Big Big Train is possibly the most interesting progrock-group since Genesis. All of their albums are outstanding musical achievements, with Folklore as perhaps their best ever.
|  | Alexander S. - 21/Jun/2020  The recording, as before, was attended by a large string-wind ensemble (all natural, no substitutes!). Here, too, there is a lot of splin, and grace, and arrangement subtleties, and delicate melodies, although the album is nevertheless tailored more “in combat”, as if according to some hit patterns. It is understandable - folklore is by definition a simpler, more root thing, close to everyone and everyone. Despite the fact that there is no folk in its purest form - Big Big Train did not engage in processing or stylization. But, inspired by the melodies of their native land, the group, in a slightly more obvious form than before, weaves their echoes into its musical fabric. The most obvious example is the title thing, actually “Folklore”, which was decided as a peasant march with vocalist’s decisive tunes, choir “answers” and perky instrumental rituals (in the video for this song both old and young are walking along the country road behind the Longdon flute player - an allusion to the Hameln Pied Piper is obvious, even if this legend is German). The second composition from the same series is the spirit of Jethro Tull “Wassail” (released on EP in 2015), based on a warlike quasi-folk melody, and, again, calls with the “choir” and hammond. The rest is a neo-prog reflection characteristic of the Big Big Train, beautiful lyrics richly flavored with English place names (“London Plane”, “Along The Ridgeway”, “Salisbury Giant”), the noble wind choir in “The Transit Of Venus Across The Sun” and long cinematic "epics" - the influence of folklore in them is no more than usual. The album ends with the ballad “Telling The Bees”, in which a fragment from “Flight of the Bumblebee” suddenly flashes - a trifle, but nice! In general, it’s a strong album, although English Electric, especially the first part of it, perhaps, will not overturn on a bend.
| | | Evripidis T. - 29/Oct/2017 Big Big train continue their prog rock journey with a great album that creates images of the English rural area!
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