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Artist: Another Fine Day
Website: www.anotherfineday.co.uk/
Track Name: Scarborough Fair
Playback: mp3
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This Sundays piece is Scarborough Fair (yep the old English folk song), it comes from the album Salvage by Another Fine Day. This version draws on English folk , southeast African music, acid jazz, and Eno-esque electronic landscapes, without ever hanging around any one of them. This is hardly surprising, given the diversity of Tom Green’s career. He spent years working as a writer, musician, and producer with such diverse acts as The Orb and the world music band Baka Beyond (one of my favourites currently); his remixes include songs by alternative rockers Primitive Radio Gods and Irish folk legend Donal Lunny.

Tom Green works this song with the sounds of nature, sampled, modified, synthesised and combined with more traditional ‘live’ instrumentation and musical structures. Rather tasty, lazy jazz-inspired piano playing that puts me in mind of Joe Zawinul and a big dub bottom end create a groove that sucks you right in.

I like this and look forward to checking out the other bits he has played on. There are more albums and samples available on the website.

Have a good Sunday.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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