Fred Dantas Choros From Bahia CD

Sixteen tracks covering the best of music from Cornwall, and a perfect way to introduce some of our artists to a wider audience, and we are sure that after hearing this collection that you will want to investigate some of the other cd's from many of these particular artists, also available from cornishmusic The opening track is 'East Looe Boys' from Callington boy Alan Moorhouse - taken from the album 'Travellers Tales'. Alan says of the track - ' I was having a lunchtime pint with my Uncle Gerald! He said that when he was a teenager the lads in the villages used to have punch ups at the weekends, not because they hated each other, but because it gave them a bit of excitement! the same lads gladly died for each other when they marched off to war.. I looked up the battle honours for the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry, and the song wrote itself'Second track is a coupling of two traditional tunes, 'Morrisons Jig / Over the Hills' by Kerensa Newman, performed on Hammered Dulicmer. Kerensa - 'A set of tunes that I don't seem to be able to stop playing - Wherever I am and Whatever the Situation you can guarantee that this will be on my set list'.

Third track 'Torn' comes from a very talented young singer / songwriter from Penzance, Hollie Rogers, a vocal / acoustic guitar piece featuring wonderful and emotive harmony work.

'Whirlyjig' from Martin Wheeler is taken from the cd 'Amber' - an instrumental acoustic guitar piece which builds to a stunning climax.

'Butcher Bird' from Rob Long is a song about the Cornish Blacksmith Rebellion, co -written with his daughter Sally. It's a lovely ancient sounding modal tune which fits the subject matter perfectly.

Rob - 'Butcher Bird is of course the country name for the red-backed shrike, once very common throughout southern Britain. It's particular forte is impaling harmless songbirds on thorns to make larders. I felt this was an interesting metaphor for what happened to An Gof and his comrades! the uses and abuses of power and the inevitable violence which underpins such systems'.

'Pensevik Rysrudh' is an acoustic guitar / vocal piece sung in Kernewek by Bert Biscoe, well known in the County and beyond as a poet and musician, and also as a County Councillor. Expect a full retrospective cd from Bert soon, which will include tracks from the legendary Cornish band the Brainiac Five as well as much of Bert's subsequent musical works.