Various: Oak Ash and Thorn – review

(Folk Police)Two inspirations lie behind this array of young folk voices. The first is Rudyard Kipling, whose children's poems provide its content; the second is the late Peter Bellamy, a 1960s folk stalwart whose albums of Kipling verses became cult items. The 16 participants add their own flavours to Bellamy's tunes: the Unthanks bring wintry sibling harmonies, Trembling Bells their inventive folk-rock, and Tim Eriksen his New England autoharp. The stand-outs, arguably, come with the pure voic...

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