Simon Emmerson’s Imagined Village seek a rapprochement between the English folk tradition and post-colonial world music.
Their third album finds sitars and tablas alongside the pedigree vocals of Jackie Oates and an especially majestic Eliza Carthy, and Get Kalsi and The Guvna mix devotional sincerity with an arch meditational lounge muzak.
Perhaps Bending The Dark’s a sometimes too immaculate conception, without the arresting rough edges its star contributors leave on their own work, and Martin Carthy’s stately guitar part scythes tellingly through the perfumed garden of the epic title track, but this daring cross-cultural fusion rarely sounds forced.
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John Robins, Comedian
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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