View basket “Life and Times” has been added to your basket. In The Furrows Of Common Place Jim Ghedi SKU: BR010LP Barcode: 5060168042873 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Basin Rock Released Date: 22nd January 2021 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “Instead of landscape sketches I wanted to go into more personal areas of my reality,” says Jim Ghedi of his third album In The Furrows Of Common Place. “To hold up certain aspects of society that were laying bare in front of me.” Whilst Ghedi’s previous idiosyncratic take on folk has often been instrumental, exploring the natural world and his relationship to it through his music as seen on 2018’s A Hymn For Ancient Land. His new album In The Furrow Of Common Place is a deeper plunge inside himself to offer up more of his voice to accompany his profoundly unique and moving compositions. “There were things I was seeing around me and being affected by in my daily life,” he says. “Socially and politically I saw defiance but also hopelessness. I wanted to be honest with the frustration and turmoil I was experiencing.” The decision to include more of Ghedi’s vocals was a conscious one and driven by a need to say something. However, this isn’t a brash raging political polemic. As is now customary with Ghedi’s work, it is rich in nuance, history, poetry and allegory. Musically, the album is equally locked into this ongoing sense of evolution. Ghedi’s intricate yet deft guitar playing still twists and flows its way through the core, weaving in and out of gliding double bass, sweeping violin, gentle percussion and vocals that shift from tender solos to overlapping harmonies. As with much of Ghedi’s work, there’s a rich connection between the past and the current. Musically, he continues to sit in a singular position of sounding distinctly contemporary yet also with a touch of traditional flair. This expands itself into the lyrical terrain here too. “I’ve been exploring contemporary issues and in that process discovering sources that correlate with similar issues in the past,” he says. “Which proves that these issues throughout history – environmental destruction, working class poverty etc – are ongoing.” For all the socio-political and historical backdrop to the record it is not one that feels overwhelmed by it. Much like Ghedi’s work when it was largely instrumental – and some of it still is here – it flows and unfurls thoughtfully, with space still being utilised masterfully, creating room to pause and reflect. It’s another inimitable record from an artist that truly sounds like nobody else right now. “Melodically sublime… although Ghedi’s music is infused with tradition, it’s very much experiencing the present” **** MOJO 4/5 The i : “A raga -like texture of tingling drones and jaunty picking” “The melancholy majesty and sense of contemplative awe that permeates much of A Hymn for Ancient Land – which deserves to replicate the recent success of Ghedi’s Basin Rock label mates Nadia Reid and Julie Byrne – really only sound like itself.” 8/10 thelineofbestfit “a brilliant finger-picker and songwriter” 4/5 Q “There’s respect here, but no folkloric nostalgia…..a delightful hybrid strain” 7/10 – Uncut Artist Jim Ghedi Genre Folk Label Basin Rock Buying Options 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Common Thread The Lamentations of Round Oak Waters Mytholm Stolen Ground Ah Cud Hew Beneath The Willow Beneath The Willow Part II Son David Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk Paul's picks View Product Quick View Sam Lee Songdreaming Folk | Cooking Vinyl | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th March 2024 £23.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Sam Lee Songdreaming £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP915 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th March 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Alasdair Roberts Grief in The Kitchen and Mirth in The Hall Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 31st March 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alasdair Roberts Grief in The Kitchen and Mirth in The Hall £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC862 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Andy M Stewart & Manus Lunny Dublin Lady Folk | Green Linnet | 1LP Released 13th June 2014 £4.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Andy M Stewart & Manus Lunny Dublin Lady £4.00 Genre: Folk Label: Green Linnet SKU: NN69763 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th June 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Trees The Garden Of Jane Delawney Folk | Earth Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 19th March 2021 £20.00 Select options Trees The Garden Of Jane Delawney £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Recordings Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th March 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Gordon Lightfoot Solo Folk | Rhino | 180g, 1LP Released 20th March 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gordon Lightfoot Solo £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rhino SKU: 0190296850332 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 20th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch Living In The Shadows Folk | Earth Records | 4LP, Box Set Released 27th January 2017 £51.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch Living In The Shadows £51.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Records SKU: EARTHLP014 Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 27th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Martyn Oram The Men Who Dream Folk | Muffy | 1LP Released 12th August 2014 £2.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Martyn Oram The Men Who Dream £2.00 Genre: Folk Label: Muffy SKU: NN71007 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Rend Collective The Art of Celebration Folk | Integrity Music | 1LP Released 31st March 2017 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rend Collective The Art of Celebration £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: Integrity Music SKU: 52660 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Trees Trees (50th Anniversary Edition Gold Vinyl) Folk | Earth Recordings | 4LP, Box Set, Includes Download Code Released 30th September 2022 £80.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Trees Trees (50th Anniversary Edition Gold Vinyl) £80.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Recordings SKU: EARTHLP043G Formats: 4LP, Box Set, Includes Download Code Released Date: 30th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joan Baez Joan Baez Folk | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 13th November 2007 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joan Baez Joan Baez £34.00 Genre: Folk Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: VSD2077 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 13th November 2007 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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