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01. THE MEMORY BAND - The Bold Grenadier
02. THE MEMORY BAND - Children Of The Stones
03. THE MEMORY BAND - Against Our Laws Contrary
04. THE MEMORY BAND - On Our Side
05. THE MEMORY BAND - The Mason And The Lark
06. THE MEMORY BAND - By The Truth Of My Right Hand
07. THE MEMORY BAND - Up The Common
08. THE MEMORY BAND - Starlight
09. THE MEMORY BAND - A Postcard For Toppy And Lou
ARTIST
TITLE
A Fair Field
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
VAN 305LP VAN 305LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/16/2016

On their fifth album, A Fair Field, The Memory Band return once more to the ghost-lit back-roads of British traditional music where digital machinery and acoustic musicians congregate to make old music from the future. The Memory Band navigate a dream landscape of fading identity, dredging up forgotten histories from old maps, half-filled diaries, government records and lists left inside magazines detailing obsolete television schedules. The music was fed by stories of magical hares and the recollections of ballad sellers bearing placards at the great fairs of times past, the fields of which now lie buried beneath leisure centers, electricity substations, and retail parks. It traces the connection between the headstone of a man killed in Norfolk by the sails of a windmill, the first observations of solar flares, incendiarism, council estates and an old man's recollection of ploughing the land by starlight in another time. Since 2002, The Memory Band has been producing their own modern recipe of traditional music with a rolling cast of contributors led by producer Stephen Cracknell. A Fair Field includes vocal contributions from Liam Bailey, Helene Bradley, Hannah Caughlin, and Nancy Wallace and features the rhythm section of Olie Brice on double bass, Fred Thomas on piano and Tom Page on drums with strings by Lucy Railton and Rob Spriggs.