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This
is an album called "989", by a group called XIM (in case you thought it
was an album called "XIM" by a group called 989). Like the product in the
TV ad, the CD is "tasty, tasty, very very tasty… ". The members are
Nick Carpenter, Kate Ross, Paddy Shaw and Frank Vickers; it's a recent recording,
done in Spring this year in Norwich, and features melodeons, darbuka, flutes,
bass, djembe, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, bodhran and tambourine. The standard
is consistently good, lovely in bits, and the tunes are all penned by the
group working in different combinations (with Shaw just having the edge
in prolific terms), and have great titles like '2CV', 'The Whiffler' and
'The Clint Eastwood Waltz'. This is precisely my cup of tea - a gem well
worth a listen.
Hector Christie |
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