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Voices From The Empty Moor by Devin Hoff on Kill Rock Stars (the album artwork is a black papercut illustration on a white background depicting a bird flying over a moor beneath a crescent moon; the album title and artist name are being carried on the wind like a voice)
Back cover of Voices From The Empty Moor by Devin Hoff on Kill Rock Stars (the tracklist and artwork match the design on the front and information includes the featured guest artists)
Sea foam coloured vinyl edition of Voices From The Empty Moor by Devin Hoff on Kill Rock Stars (the album artwork is a black papercut illustration on a white background depicting a bird flying over a moor beneath a crescent moon; the album title and artist name are being carried on the wind like a voice)

Devin Hoff - Voices From The Empty Moor (Songs Of Anne Briggs)

KILL ROCK STARS

Bassist, composer and arranger Devin Hoff has been intensively studying the music of Anne Briggs for over a decade. Briggs was a leading light of the 1960"s English folk scene, a gifted songwriter and improviser, as well as an amateur musicologist who revived traditional English, Scottish, and Irish Traveller songs with an unpretentious approach that perhaps presaged the rebellion of punk as much as it honoured tradition. 
 
Voices From the Empty Moor seeks to honour the mystery and beauty of Anne Briggs' music while maintaining its own unique perspective, foregrounding powerful emotion and, hopefully, magical transformation.
 
The arrangements here include collaborations with musician friends that share a fascination with mining specific folk forms for universal and timeless truths; singers Julia Holter, Shannon Lay, Sharon Van Etten and Emmett Kelly; oud player Alejandro Farha; saxophonist Howard Wiley and drummer Jim White. 


TRACKLIST: 

  1. She Moved Through The Fair 
  2. Go Your Way (Feat. Sharon Van Etten) 
  3. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (Feat. Julia Holter) 
  4. Maa Bonny Lad 
  5. Living By The Water (Feat. Shannon Lay) 
  6. The Snow It Melts The Soonest 
  7. My Bonny Boy 
  8. Black Waterside (Feat. Emmett Kelly) 
  9. Willie O’ Winsbury 
  10. The Lowlands 

 

  • US import 
  • Sea foam coloured vinyl LP available exclusively from independent stores 
  • CD housed in gatefold card jacket with reinforced 7mm spine 

 

 

 

 

see also: 
Anne Briggs - Anne Briggs   LP | CD 
Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come   LP 
Jim White & Marisa Anderson - The Quickening   LP | CD 
Xylouris White - The Sisypheans   LP | CD 
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs   2LP 
Dirty Three - Cinder   2LP 

 

browse collections: 
Kill Rock Stars collection 
Traditional/folk music collection 
Unclassical & Modern Composition collection 

 

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