June Tabor: Ashore – review

(Topic)Concept albums suit June Tabor. Giving herself a theme allows her to bring her influences and interests together. With her Rosa Mundi set a decade ago, she concentrated on roses, and now comes a concept set about the sea. It starts with the atmospheric and dramatic Finistere, first recorded in 1989 with the Oysterband – a collaboration that is hopefully about to be renewed – but then it becomes far bleaker. For Tabor, the sea means death, parting, pain or war. Even when she embarks o...

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