a folk music project based in the west of england,
welcome to a rag bag of music, photography, random
thoughts and self absorbed bullshit at a hundred
miles an hour.
visit the website at parlourbards.com
The streams of nantsian refer to a river in cornwall that divides into two and reunites, when couples were to be parted they would meet here as a symbol that they would be reunited. The song is about a sailor who goes to sea leaving his sweetheart at nantsian, he has an affair while away but has a change of heart and returns home. The video is from the 1933 film "wake of the bounty" music by the parlourbards
Have collaborated on a track with manchester based singer songwriter sea, http://www.facebook.com/themusicmakerSEA, on a track called play your cards right. the video is from the film sita sings the blues, www.sitasingstheblues.com.
Poly styrene, lead singer and creative force sadly passed away in april this year, I just can't think of any bands around today with this kind of mojo.
The dawn redwood (metasequoia)was only known from fossils and was thought to be extinct, then in 1944,a grove was discovered in a remote valley in china. This one is in Trewidden garden, cornwall and is one of the biggest in the uk. It looks as though it has just walked out of the jurassic and has quite a presence.
A virtuoso scottish piper who fused traditional folk music with dance and electronica, if he had not sadly died of cancer I think he would have become as influential as Miles Davis or John Coltrane. Here's a track of his called swallowtail I've set to some clips from the film man of aran.
I'm not a great beatles fan but somebody gave me a collection of unreleased stuff, early demos, alternative takes and stuff that was just too weird to release. I'm now hooked on it, here's a take of tomorrow never knows thats almost like hip hop, its set to some clips from yellow submarine, turn up the volume.
the us and uk governments are asking youtube to take down videos of their citizens engaging in lawful protest, and its happy to comply. Google, youtubes owner has a track record of collaborating with the chinese to censor the internet, now it is doing it in the west. www.prisonplanet.com/government-orders-you-tube-to-censor-protest-videos.html
