A unique collection of storytelling and music CDs available for you to buy from our touring shows and the artists that feature in our shows. The perfect way to recreate your experience of an Adverse Camber show and to enjoy more music and stories from the artists. They’re also great if you missed one of our shows on tour as well as making perfect gifts!
Full of songs and stories from the Fire in the North Sky: Epic Tales from Finland live performance. The CD recording captures the improvisational qualities of the source material and rewards repeated listening. It includes characters, songs and episodes performed on recent tours, such as the Firespell (Tulen synty in Finnish), the story of Väinämöinen searching for the sleeping singer Antero Vipunen, the Bride of Gold and Silver and, memorably, the making of the Sampo. Plus there are new snippets and improvised sections, from a beautiful runolaulu of the beginning of the world, sung by Anna-Kaisa to the evocative story of Aino's transformation into a fish.
Stories from the Shahnameh, the Persian Book of Kings by Ferdowsi. Storytelling by Xanthe Gresham Knight and Arash Moradi. Starting with the beginning of time, the Shahnameh recounts the myths and "history" of Iran.
Arash Moradi with Habib Meftah
Arash Moradi is the son of the legendary Ali Akbar Moradi, the most renowned tanbour master of our time. For Arash, the Yaresan tanbour tradition is his soul and London is his home. Arash is now presenting his own composition work whilst keeping his tradition, building a bridge between his life and experience in the West. This CD is a musical arrangement that focuses on the tanbour - its modes, techniques and sounds - and is composed of different chapters where the old tanbour maqam patterns remain strong and you can still sense the vapours of Shalaan River!
How do we choose our pathways in life? A fisherman with a sense of adventure discovers a way into a golden land, visible only to those who know how to look. In that land, there’s a king with legs of stone, a queen who is enchanted by a serpent prince and a kingdom that has lost its way. Can they find a way back to their true selves? What will they lose and gain in the search for heart and meaning? A high quality studio recording of The Kingdom of the Heart by storyteller Katy Cawkwell and classical cellist Sarah Llewellyn Jones produced in a stylish card wallet.
The CD includes two extra tracks of Solo Cello repertoire performed by Sarah Llewellyn-Jones - Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G by J.S.Bach and Images de Menton by Siegfried Barchet.
Two of Britain's leading storytellers sing and tell the way deep into the secret, dappled heart of Sherwood... and at the same time tell the true and harsher histories of English dissenters and radicals.
Mischievous, poignant, politically engaged: this is Storytelling at its best.
Commissioned by Festival at the Edge in 2007.
Branwen is the second branch of the four brances of the Mabinogi - a cycle of stories from Welsh mythology that mixes human drama, the animal world and the supernatural realm together, all held in the beautiful Welsh landscape.
Award winning storyteller, Michael Harvey tells the story and the songs are arranged and sung by Pauline Down. The songs are sung in Welsh.
Ffynnon, pronounced 'FUN-ON' in Welsh means 'well spring', is made up of the voice and instrumental talents of Lynne Denman, Stacey Blythe and David Reid. Lynne Denman's jazzy ethereal vocals provides a traditional sound for modern Wales. She also lends her instrumental talent on the bodhrán. Stacey Blythe plays keyboard, accordion, cello, piano and voice. David Reid plays six-string bass guitar, keyboard and vocals. Reid is active in the London jazz scene.
The group performs songs that are rooted in ancient tradition, new modern rhythms and soundscapes of the Celts.
Ffynnon, pronounced 'FUN-ON' in Welsh means 'well spring', is made up of the voice and instrumental talents of Lynne Denman, Stacey Blythe and David Reid. Lynne Denman's jazzy ethereal vocals provides a traditional sound for modern Wales. She also lends her instrumental talent on the bodhrán. Stacey Blythe plays keyboard, accordion, cello, piano and voice. David Reid plays six-string bass guitar, keyboard and vocals. Reid is active in the London jazz scene.
A collection of traditional and new songs mapping a personal journey from the singer in Adverse Camber's Hunting the Giant's Daughter and Dreaming the Night Field.
"Llongau (“ships”) finds Ffynnon stripped down to a basic trio lineup, where the close-knit nucleus comprises Lynne Denman (vocals) and Stacey Blythe (harp, accordion, piano and vocals), with Dylan Fowler contributing lap steel guitar and chime bars and responsible for the whole of the production aspect of the disc. A very beautiful album." Folk Radio
Tracklist
1 Dyma Flwyddyn Newydd Eto
2 Y Cadno A'r Ladi Fawr Benfelen
3 Mari, Mari
4 Parapet
5 Gelynna
6 Merch y Llyn
7 He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven (W.B. Yeates)
8 Fwynlan O Serch
9 La Bas Dans la Prairie
10 Small Victory
11 Llongau Caernarfon
12 Morforwyn
13 No Language
14 Dacw 'nghartref Yn y Golwg
"I bought the first album by Ffynon and quickly fell in love with it. I was searching out my Welsh roots at the time (grandmother Mary Emma Lloyd) and it really struck me in the music of this group. I was excited when I found the second album available and have again loved it. The music is adventuresome and deep. Lynne Denman's vocals are easy to love but everyone contributes so much! Gwaith da, Ffynon." Customer review
Tracklist:
1 Sioned a Mamgu
2 Cherries
3 Llys Ifor Hael
4 Iain's Reel
5 Yr Adar Gwylltion
6 Jigiau Naid
7 Llanw Chwant
8 En Filant Ma Quenouille
9 Oer
10 Elen Ar Eos
11 When He Started the World
12 Rheged
13 Sept Marins
14 Breuddywd
Named after the Welsh word for element, Elfen is the seamless blending of three great musicians. This is their debut album.
Stacey Blythe, Helina Rees, and Jordan Williams create a distinctive and soulful soundtrack for a new folk music in Wales. With the ancient songs and tunes of the Cymry at their heart, Elfen are re imagining the traditional. Familiar old words are reworked into bold and inventive arrangements, with newly written tunes. Woven in alongside traditional music from around the world, Elfen manage to remain firmly in a Welsh sound world.
Any profits from the sale of this booklet go to the restoration of the ancient and beautiful church of Llanfihangel.
A collection of acoustic traditional songs including songs sung in The Old Woman, the Buffalo and the Lion of Manding. Voice only and with percussion.
A collection of dodo music as featured in The Old Woman, the Buffalo and the Lion of Manding. The dodo is a mouth harp, known for its overtone-rich, almost electronic sound. Traditionally used for performances in small groups in social settings its hypnotic drone is said to gather the spirits around the group.
Oknirua is the 2nd album from Suunta, a band made up of the three Finnish artists that feature in Fire in the North Sky: Timo Väänänen, Anna Kaisa-Liedes & Kristiina Ilmonen. Experimental live improvisation on vocals, percussion, winds, kantele, live electronics.
A Journey into Finno-Ugric music with voice, kantele, accordion & wind instruments from two of the artists that feature in Fire in the North Sky.
This is Timo's 4th solo album, played on the same kantele as in the performances of Fire in the North Sky. Includes a version of a melody which features in the show.
Traditional and new music on ancient lyres, jouhikko and kantele. Features the pyngyr, West Siberian Lyre. Timo Väänänen plays the kantele and pyngyr in Fire in the North Sky.
2009. the first studio album from Suunta
1. Sulavainen (feat. Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Kristiina Ilmonen & Timo Väänänen)
2. Tuli (feat. Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Kristiina Ilmonen & Timo Väänänen)
3. Nuoruus (feat. Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Kristiina Ilmonen & Timo Väänänen)
4. Louhi (feat. Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Kristiina Ilmonen & Timo Väänänen)
5. Ella (feat. Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Kristiina Ilmonen & Timo Väänänen)
6. Pyhien Tanssi (feat. Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Kristiina Ilmonen & Timo Väänänen)
7. Kuutar (feat. Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Kristiina Ilmonen & Timo Väänänen)
The roots of Utua´s songs are deep in the Finnish-Karelian-Ingrian folk
tradition. Singer, Anna-Kaisa Liedes combines traditional verses with contemporary musical idioms, giving them a fresh and personal touch. Inspired by the eternal themes of traditional poetry - love, disappointment, passion and the complicated entwining of love and hatred, she paints her epic interpretations with subtle tones and expressive colors. An ensemble complete the music with folk and jazz backgrounds.
