KunitsuneOnly after a full semester of being back in civilization am I finally catching up, but I finally received June Tabor's Apples and Bert Jansch's Black Swan in the mail a couple of days ago, and I can easily say that package was the best thing to come out of my mailbox since my scholarship money as a freshman.
In a year of exciting departures and experimentation for a lot of my favourite artists, June shows that she still has a lot to say about the traditional folk medium, and I'm glad for it. Although I appreciate her more uniformly contemporary albums, I truly love albums like Apples for the same reason I enjoyed Berlin's architecture when I visited - the seamless, elegant juxtaposition of the old and new. Traditional pieces like
The Old Garden Gate and Au Logis De Mon Pere sit next to more recent tracks like Standing in Line (quickly rivaling Tabor's The Band played Waltzing Matilda and Leonard Cohen's The Partisan as my favourite war song) as if they were old friends.
This is a bold and confident statement from June that she's still a major force in the folk music community, and an immensely well-crafted album besides. Highly, highly recommended.
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In a year of exciting departures and experimentation for a lot of my favourite artists, June shows that she still has a lot to say about the traditional folk medium, and I'm glad for it. Although I appreciate her more uniformly contemporary albums, I truly love albums like Apples for the same reason I enjoyed Berlin's architecture when I visited - the seamless, elegant juxtaposition of the old and new. Traditional pieces like
The Old Garden Gate and Au Logis De Mon Pere sit next to more recent tracks like Standing in Line (quickly rivaling Tabor's The Band played Waltzing Matilda and Leonard Cohen's The Partisan as my favourite war song) as if they were old friends. This is a bold and confident statement from June that she's still a major force in the folk music community, and an immensely well-crafted album besides. Highly, highly recommended.
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