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Chumbawamba - ABCDEFG (2010)
Cover pic.
Chumbawamba are a British band. Over a 27-year career, the band plays music ranging from anarcho-punk, pop-influenced dance music, acappella/choral music and world music to acoustic folk music.
'ABCDEFG', their seventeenth studio album, reflects this - a musically eclectic mix-up of ideas to reflect its subject matter. That subject matter includes a gentle hymn to teenage under-the-pillow discovery of music heard on late-night transistor radio, a celebration of the marching songs written by soldiers in the First World War, the story of how people had to battle against State Communist ideology to play their music, a poke at the folk world’s obsession with collection and authenticity, & the story of the concentration camp survivor who disrupted the first playing of Wagner in Israel by swinging a football rattle.
Special mention should go to album closer, ‘Dance, Idiot, Dance’ – a response by Chumbawamba and the No Masters Collective to the right wing British National Party’s decision to infiltrate English folk music and ‘reclaim it’ in the name of racist bigotry. There couldn't be a more fitting way to end what is, overall, an excellent album.
Track listing:
1. "Introduction" - 1:01
2. "Voices, That's All" - 3:30
3. "Pickle" - 2:43
4. "Wagner at the Opera" - 2:13
5. "Underground" - 3:30
6. "Torturing James Hetfield" - 2:17
7. "The Devil's Interval" - 4:00
8. "Hammer, Stirrup & Anvil" - 3:04
9. "Puccini Said" - 2:02
10. "That Same So-So Tune" - 2:35
11. "Singing Out the Days" - 2:18
12. "You Don't Exist" - 2:36
13. "The Song Collector" - 3:26
14. "Missed" - 1:40
15. "Ratatatay" - 3:40
16. "New York Song" - 1:13
17. "Dance, Idiot, Dance" - 2:43
Total Play Time: 44:31
Personnel:
Neil Ferguson
Lou Watts
Boff Whalley
Jude Abbott
Phil Moody
Plus:
Ray 'Chopper' Cooper - cello on 3, 5 & 7, harmonica on 12
Jon Boden - fiddle on 2, 7 & 12
Belinda O'Hooley - piano on 3, 6 & 7, backing vocals on 3
Heidi Tidow - backing vocals on 3
Harry Hamer - cajon on 2, 7 & 15
'Dance, Idiot, Dance' performed by "the massed No Masters Co-operativists" with Lester Simpson on lead vocals
Brass by Charlie Cake Marching Band, arranged by Jude Abbott
Strings by Whingate Ensemble, arranged by Neil Ferguson
CD Release date: 01/03/2010
Label: No Masters
Format: Lossless FLAC
EAC/FLAC inc. CUE sheet, M3U & log
Size: 249MB |
