Shovel Dance Collective – The Water is the Shovel of the Shore (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:22 minutes | 626 MB | Genre: Experimental Folk, Drone, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Double Dare – Memorials of Distinction
The latest release from nine-piece folk group Shovel Dance Collective, orbiting around the concept of water. Combining on-site documentation of traditional songs, folk tunes and field recordings in long-form sound-collages. The results lie somewhere between folk music, music concrete and acoustic ecology.
Tracklist:
01. Shovel Dance Collective – I: The Bold Fisherman (02:37)
02. Shovel Dance Collective – I: Thames waters off Greenland Dock, The Weary Whaling Grounds, (04:13)
03. Shovel Dance Collective – I: Junkyard work next to Dartford Creek, rigging and reeds at Erith Marina, The Bold Benjamin, waterfowl on the Darent (03:00)
04. Shovel Dance Collective – I: The Herrings Head (01:09)
05. Shovel Dance Collective – I: Water pump in Ladywell, Waves on the Shore, a Creek on the Llŷn Peninsula (03:14)
06. Shovel Dance Collective – II: In Charlestown there Dwelled a Lass (06:10)
07. Shovel Dance Collective – II: Camera flash on the Deptford foreshore, The Rolling Waves, crashing spring waves by the Cutty Sark (04:30)
08. Shovel Dance Collective – II: Lovely on the Water, lapping waters by Tower Hill (02:21)
09. Shovel Dance Collective – II: Pump organ bellows being pushed by hand, the River Chess trickles, The Watermans Dance (02:37)
10. Shovel Dance Collective – III: Tourists feed gulls outside City Hall, The Bold Fisherman (02:30)
11. Shovel Dance Collective – III: Ferry east from London Bridge, A Fishermans’ Song for Attracting Seals / The Full Rigged Ship (03:46)
12. Shovel Dance Collective – III: Clergy of Southwark Cathedral and St Magnus the Martyr bless the Thames, the organ at St Mark’s Clerkenwell, a fence at North Greenwich sings in the wind, distant cranes at Silvertown (03:23)
13. Shovel Dance Collective – III: The Wild Goose Shanty, slapping Thames water under a bridge, The Drowned Sailor, crashing waves at Deptford foreshore (04:02)
14. Shovel Dance Collective – III: Waterfall and rain on the River Chess, Captain Kidd’s Farewell to the Seas (01:29)
15. Shovel Dance Collective – IV: Waters of the River Ravensbourne beside Elverson Road DLR station, Lowlands (04:01)
16. Shovel Dance Collective – IV: The Cruel Grave, pump organs at Nick’s House (03:14)
17. Shovel Dance Collective – IV: The Grey Cock, Dan wading through Elverson Road DLR station tunnel (05:17)
18. Shovel Dance Collective – IV: Ova Canje Water (01:40)
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