The Water is the Shovel of the Shore Shovel Dance Collective SKU: MODARE001LP Barcode: 5055869550918 24.00 £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Memorials of Distinction / Double Dare Released Date: 5th April 2024 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Revolutionary takes on traditional folk, spliced with music concrète and field recordings along the Thames. This highly acclaimed album (Pitchfork, Quietus, Wire, etc.) is like no other. “All of it has the capacity to make your hair stand on end” – Pitchfork (7.7) // “A thing of rare emotional power.” – The Quietus (31st best album of 2022) // “One of the most forward-thinking and original collections of traditional material you’re likely to hear this year, or any year.” – FolkRadio // “Marks the arrival of a new generation of politically conscious traditional folk singers” – TradFolk // ‘The Water is the Shovel of the Shore’ is the revelatory new release by the nine-piece contemporary folk group Shovel Dance Collective, an expansive ensemble of multi-disciplinary artists and musicians currently based in London. Comprising members of caroline, Gentle Stranger, as well as accomplished visual artists and solo instrumentalists, Shovel Dance Collective reconceive traditional folk music as an experimental mode of longform composition, encompassing drone, early music, free improvisation, and metal. In the performances and recordings of the collective, the arrangements and lyricism of the folk canon are reinvented, as historically disenfranchised perspectives are placed at the forefront. Predicated on recounts of queer experience, black consciousness, pioneering feminist ideals, and the labour of the working class, the output of Shovel Dance Collective represents an inclusive repository of subversive oral folklore. With their third release ‘The Water is the Shovel of the Shore’ the collective explore the myriad experiential and symbolic resonances that water has for working people, focusing on the essence and significance of the river Thames. Across stark, profound adaptations of fabled balladry, elegiac sea shanties, graceful jigs and impassioned, unadorned vocal airs, Shovel Dance Collective deliver an innovative, stirring exposition of poignant folksong threaded through with site-specific field recordings. Songs of English, Irish, Scottish & Guyanese origin, documented by the likes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cecil Sharp, A.L. Lloyd & Wordsworth McAndrew, reflect an international, anti-colonial ethos and chronicle enduring tales of proletarian life. Embedded within an immersive sound collage, incorporating environmental recordings captured along the Thames, in churches and cathedrals, as well as in the midst of liminal urban surroundings, the evocative songcraft of Shovel Dance Collective constitutes an authentic, powerful embodiment of visionary modern folk music, rooted in ancestral homage, restitution, timeless communion and collective solidarity. Artist Shovel Dance Collective Genre Folk Label Memorials of Distinction / Double Dare Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings I II III IV. 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