DEVIN HOFF – Voices From The Empty Moor (Songs Of Anne Briggs) – LP – Sea Foam Colour Vinyl

LABEL: Kill Rock Stars

CAT NO: LPKRS712LE

BARCODE: 759656071154

Tracklisting:

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 (with Howard Wiley)
5. Living By The Water (Feat. Shannon Lay)
6. The Snow It Melts The Soonest / My Bonny Boy (with Alejandro Farha)
7. Black Waterside (Feat. Emmett Kelly)
8. Willie O Winsbury (with Jim White)
9. The Lowlands

side A:
1. She Moved Through the Fair
(trad. arranged by D. Hoff; basses-D. Hoff)
2. Go Your Way
(words and music-Anne Briggs; vocals-Sharon van Etten; basses-D. Hoff)
3. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
(trad. arranged by D. Hoff; vocals-Julia Holter; basses-D. Hoff)
4. Maa Bonny Lad
(trad. arranged by D. Hoff; saxophone-Howard Wiley; basses-D. Hoff)

side B:
5. Living By the Water
(words and music-Anne Briggs; vocals-Shannon Lay; basses-D. Hoff)
6. The Snow It Melts the Soonest/My Bonny Boy
(trad. arranged by D. Hoff; oud-Alejandro Farha; bass-D. Hoff)
7. Black Waterside
(trad. arranged by D. Hoff; vocals-Emmett Kelly; basses-D. Hoff)
8. Willie O Winsbury
(trad. arranged by D. Hoff; drums-Jim White; guitar and basses-D. Hoff)
9. The Lowlands
(trad. arranged by D. Hoff; bass-D. Hoff)

DEVIN HOFF
Voices From The Empty Moor
(Songs Of Anne Briggs)

LP Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Sea Foam Colour Vinyl

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. 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 1960s English folk scene, a gifted songwriter and improvisor, 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 honored tradition. 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.

See below for tracklisting