Vooks -
'When the Fish They Fly ...'

CD from Holland

$A27.50 (plus packing & postage)
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century collectors of folk music travelled extensively into the English and Scottish countryside. Some of these collectors went to the United States, to collect English songs from settlers in the Appalachian and Ozark mountain ranges. The collectors wrote down the lyrics and the tunes of the songs they encountered. These folksongs describe everyday life, as well as things out of the ordinary...: love and hate, life and death, murder and punishment, marriage and divorce, emigration, war, going to sea, the supernatural..., just name it and you will find a folksong that tells the story. The tunes are sometimes unconventional, with musical influences from a long time ago.

For their first album Vooks decided upon fourteen traditional folksongs. With her beautiful voice Caroline sings most of these musical stories and a lot of people find it hard to believe that Caroline is Dutch and hails from the 'Lowlands of Holland'!
Mountain dulcimer, acoustic bass guitar, violin, recorder, guitar and cello all play sometimes very subtle and softly, but in some songs they sound energetically in the special arrangements.

Caroline Dijkman: vocals, mountain dulcimerSteven Schoevaart: vocals, acoustic bass guitarRinie Houben-Loenders: backing vocals, percussion
Maurice Hundscheidt: guitarPetra Nelissen: recordersIrene Koster: violin
Hans de Wilde: cello in 'Nelly' and 'Brazos'Fionn and Luke: children's vocals on 'Swing a lady' Jean Innemee: vocals on the bonus track

1. The Bloody Gardener (5:00)
2. The Keen Stars (3:15)
3. Sally Buck (2:25)
4. The Two Brothers (4:50)
5. Lovely Joan (2:00)
6. All of a Row (3:20)
7. Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies (3:32)
8. The Mermaid (3:50)
 9. Polly Oliver (3:06)
10. Two Sisters (3:50)
11. Nelly the Milkmaid (3:15)
12. Little Gypsy Girl (2:40)
13. Swing a Lady (3:00)
14. The Grey Cock or the Lover's Ghost (3:40)
Bonus track:
15. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos (4:00)

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