As the world spins and the years pass things change and so do we. This is not necessarily a sad process so much as an inevitable one that it's probably not advisable to resist. So it might be an idea to embrace change rather than surrender to despair.
Shovel Dance Collective are one of those Folk Collectives that seem to be occupying a more central place in musical culture and consciousness now now. Groups of people carrying ancient and unwieldy instruments gather in pubs and small venues and engage in communal ritual. Magical.
This is an initially instrumental album that breaks into voice a couple of tracks in and a spark ignites and before oo long a full fire is raging . More than that. A forest fire. It seems to owe as much to Bagpuss as diggers, levellers and the middle ages..Latest album The Shovel Dance has a purity and synergy which strikes a deep chord.
This is magical stuff which personally I'd rather listen to than the records we are being directed to by End of Year lists being posted elsewhere, An incredible year that started for me at a wondrous and spectral l Lankum gig which was strange beyond perception is drawing to a close. Records like these are to be clutched to your heart
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