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Showing posts with label John Warren. Show all posts
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Sunday, 26 February 2017

What's New at Fledgling Records

What's New at Fledgling Records
A previously unrecorded
suite of compositions by JOHN WARREN
Recorded live by the JOHN SURMAN led BRASS PROJECT
Dear Keith
Welcome to the latest newsletter from our colleagues at Fledg'ling Records. We are very proud to release a wonderful album of new music by John Warren. In the early 1980s John Surman and John Warren realized a long-held ambition and formed the Brass Project. The ensemble was conceived as a brass led group focusing on new compositions from Surman and Warren. The large group ‘had to survive without grant or subsidy' yet released a mesmerizing and critically acclaimed album for the ECM label and toured extensively on the European jazz circuit. Surman and Warren had first collaborated on the masterly 1971 Tales of the Algonquin suite, and saw the Brass Project as a further exploration of ideas they had begun to explore more than ten years earlier.
 
The 11-piece Brass Project captured live on this previously unreleased recording from June 1993 features - John Surman saxophones, alto and bass clarinets, Stephen Waterman, Guy Barker, Steve Sidwell trumpets, Pete Beachill, Malcolm Griffiths trombones, Richard Edwards, Kenny Hamilton bass trombones, Chris Laurence bass, John Marshall drums, percussion and John Warren conductor,

This hitherto ‘lost’ The Traveller’s Tale recording captures a sumptuous suite of compositions inspired by stories of the early life of John Warren’s grandfather. The piece is not programmatic but loosely traces episodes in his adventurous life, allowing for some glorious ensemble and solo playing.
Read the 4 star review in The Guardian here: The Traveller's Tale

 Warren’s composition...stands comparison with the music of Gil Evans or Maria Schneider.”
The Traveller's Tale follows Fledg'ling's highly acclaimed JOHN SURMAN re-issues:

 

An incredible fifty years ago, back in 1967, Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn released their magical Watch The Stars album. If you don't have a copy now might be just the time to investigate this wondrous collection.



FLED 3055  DORRIS HENDERSON & JOHN RENBOURN ~ Watch The Stars

Last September we helped to organise a day long tribute to John Renbourn at Cecil Sharp House. John's wife Judy produced a pair of greetings cards based on her drawings of John from 1970. We have a limited quantity of cards for sale by mail order at £5 per set:

 

JOHN RENBOURN greetings cards


Here at Fledg'ling we are busy working on several new projects for release during 2017 - our 23rd year of idiosyncratic releases.
More news in the coming months. In the meantime here's a sneak preview of a forthcoming album:


Daphne's Flight - Christine Collister, Melanie Harrold, Julie Matthews, Helen Watson
and Chris While - have re-united to record their second album twenty years after their debut. Knows Time, Knows Change will be released early in May when Daphne will begin an extensive UK tour.

All best wishes from Fledg'ling for the year ahead.

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

The latest news from Fledg'ling Records.


"Essential Autumn listening!"
Our newly-released Anne Briggs - Four Songs EP has received very positive responses throughout the press. Last month Folk Radio UK published a lengthy new interview with Anne that focused on her early years as a travelling musician and the time around Four Songs. Earlier this week BBC Radio4 broadcast a wonderful half-hour interview with Anne - The Voices of Annie Briggs. A further feature is due to be published in the next issue of fROOTS.

Four Songs, as the title suggests, collects together four previously unreleased recordings - three BBC recordings from the radio series ‘Folk-Song Cellar’, plus one song privately recorded by one of Anne’s oldest friends - on a beautifully presented vinyl 7" EP.

These rare, simple, unadorned and intimate performances, aching with poignancy, make their first appearance on record, fifty years after recording and capture Anne Briggs singing at just the right time in her brief singing career.

Anne herself has been very excited about the project: “…the results couldn't have been better. Nice the way it came about too, with lost recordings and old friends caring for them for decades.”
Track list: 1 The Recruited Collier, 2 My Bonny Boy (A Bower In My Breast), 3 Polly Vaughan, 4 The Verdant Braes Of Skreen.

You can follow this link to preview: The Verdant Braes Of Skreen



MARTIN SIMPSON and DOM FLEMONS proudly present a selection of Ever Popular Favourites will be released on Friday October 7th on CD / LP / DL.

Track list:
1 My Money Never Runs Out, 2 John Hardy, 3 If I Lose, 4 Little Sadie, 5 Pay Day, 6 Short Times Come Again No More, 7 Too Long (I’ve Been Gone), 8 Bulldoze Blues, 9 Stealin’, 10 Champagne Charlie, 11 Coalman Blues, 12 Buckeye Jim.
MARTIN SIMPSON ~ vocals, guitar, banjo
DOM FLEMONS ~ vocals, bones, banjo, quills, harmonica, electric kettle

You can follow this link to preview John Hardy


You might care to purchase an exclusive set of four
Ever Popular Favourites pinned insignia.

During September we have a special offer on these three fabulous albums from the Fledg'ling catalogue at only £6.00 each:

     

FLED 3008  ANNE BRIGGS ~ Sing A Song For You
FLED 3064  ANDY ROBERTS & The Great Stampede
FLED 3088  ANDY ROBERTS ~ Urban Cowboy

Early in 2017 we will release The Traveller's Tale a previously unreleased suite of tunes composed by from JOHN WARREN and recorded live in June 1993 by the  JOHN SURMAN / JOHN WARREN BRASS PROJECT.

Best wishes and many thanks for continuing to support Fledg'ling.

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