Natural Invention by Gigspanner Big Band
PETER KNIGHT - Violin, vocals
ROGER FLACK - Guitar, bass, vocals
PHILLIP HENRY - Dobro, slide guitar, tenor guitar, harmonica, vocals
HANNAH MARTIN - Violin, viola, banjo, vocals
JOHN SPIERS - Melodeons, concertina, vocals
SACHA TROCHET - Percussion, bass, vocals
The album title was inspired from a review of our debut album 'Live'.
"The flights of musical and interpretive fancy are staggering in their natural invention" Dave Kidman for Fatea Magazine
Tracklist
| 1. | Awake Awake | 6:07 |
| 2. | Long A Growing | 4:42 |
| 3. | Searching For Lambs | 8:32 |
| 4. | Betsy Bell and Mary Grey | 6:59 |
| 5. | Daddy Fox | 4:21 |
| 6. | Haul on the Bowline | 5:11 |
| 7. | Earl Brand | 5:41 |
| 8. | The Snows They Melt The Soonest | 5:13 |
| 9. | Courting Is A Pleasure | 7:17 |
| 10. | The Star of Munster / Reel Tricentenaire | 9:04 |
Credits
All songs trad. arr. by Gigspanner Big Band
Recorded Nov 2019 by Edd Blakeley
Produced by Edd Blakeley and the Gigspanner Big Band
Illustration by Tim Marrs / www.timmarrs.co.uk
Design layout by Kate Williams
A special thank you to our crowdfunding backers for helping to create this album.
Thanks to Katie and Michael, Christina and Nick, Jill and Nigel, and Maria and Nigel, for providing us with beautiful rehearsal spaces.
Thanks to Edd for all his hard work. Enormous thanks to Deborah Knight for making this project happen.
And lastly thanks to James Franey and Gabrielle and Steve Fairgrieve.
Bookings please contact mail@gigspanner.com
License
All rights reserved.
The Gigspanner Trio are Peter Knight (fiddle), Roger Flack (guitars) and Sacha Trochet (percussion).
The Gigspanner Big Band adds in John Spiers (squeezebox), Philip Henry (slide guitar) and Hannah Martin (fiddle, banjo)
"The multi-talented six-piece soar on their most accomplished album yet, led by the exceptional fiddle-playing of Peter Knight" ... "a faultless cavalcade"
4 stars The Guardian