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01. The North Sea - Eternal Birds
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02. The North Sea - Guiwenneth Of The Green Grass
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03. The North Sea - We Conquered The Golden Age
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04. The North Sea - Take It From Me Brother Moses
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05. The North Sea - Cover Me With Knives
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06. The North Sea - Children Of The Ashes
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07. The North Sea - And Then The Solstice Disappeared
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08. The North Sea - Feather-Cloaked Silver Priestess
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ARTIST
NORTH SEA, THE
TITLE
Exquisite Idols
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TYPE
CATALOG #
TYPE 021CD
TYPE 021CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/15/2007
This is the first official solo full-length release from Tulsa's
The North Sea
(
Brad Rose
). Rose is easily one of the free-folk movement's busiest exponents, splitting his time between running the Digitalis and Foxglove labels, the Foxy Digitalis webzine and writing his own music under a variety of different monikers with a host of collaborators. Somehow, he has found the time to craft
Exquisite Idols
, which elegantly follows a hugely acclaimed collaboration with UK's
Rameses III
,
Night of the Ankou
. However, whereas
Night of the Ankou
explored both acts' occasional leanings towards ambience and drone,
Exquisite Idols
shows Rose digging deep into the dusty vaults of his American heritage and drumming up an album dripping with blues, folk and free experimentation. This is folk music as played from a snow-drift in Tulsa, in a Midwest wasteland or a forgotten forest drenched in moonlight. It is personal, secluded and almost lonely, but Rose never allows the melancholy to take over. From the jubilant opening crackles of "Eternal Birds" right up until the rockin' stomp of "Feather-Cloaked Silver Priestess," there is the distinct feeling that although this might be labeled free folk, there's a barn somewhere full of like-minded drunkards waiting eagerly to get dancing on them there hay-bales. Just flip to the rip-roaring folk stomp of "Take It From Me Brother Moses," take a swig of moonshine and let your feet do the talking.
Exquisite Idols
is an album steeped in tradition, yet its greatness comes from Rose's ability to absorb other cultures so easily -- there are traces of Indian traditional music, Greek music and more, all hidden within the cacophony of banjo, guitar and clanging percussion. This is what sets him apart from his contemporaries and makes his music so absorbing.
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