{"id":2950,"date":"2015-11-11T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=2950"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:52:49","slug":"sam-lee-a-ground-of-its-own","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/sam-lee-a-ground-of-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Lee – A Ground of its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Music from the brilliant Sam Lee and Friends who gave a concert at Giving Voice 13, Falmouth April 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

MOJO ****<\/strong>: It demands patient attention but it\u2019s an album of unusual dignity and immense beauty
\nQ:<\/strong>\u00a0A dream-like quality that\u2019s as rare as it is compelling
\nUncut:<\/strong>\u00a0Lee\u2019s album is tremendous, blessed with courtly, uncanny, subtly radical treatments. sounding at once ancient and, in a relatively original way, contemporary.
\nSonglines *****<\/strong>\u00a0Sam\u2019s extraordinary and wonderful debut album.
\nGuardian ****<\/strong>\u00a0: an impressively brave and original set
\nES *****<\/strong>\u00a0: a shining and original talent
\nIndependent ****<\/strong>\u00a0: Lee\u2019s voice captures the mythic charm of these songs, but it\u2019s his arrangements, at once vivid yet shrouded, which set Ground of Its Own apart
\nObserver ****<\/strong>\u00a0: its downbeat, trancelike mood is unwavering, the album has a gentle, insistent power
\nIndependent on Sunday ****<\/strong>\u00a0: It\u2019s rather good<\/p>\n

The new album\u00a0from singer Sam Lee is a work several years in conception which brings together a multitude of experiences and influences for a musician who has cut an unique course in his artistic development. This 8-track release with mixes done by the legendary John Wood (of Nick Drake fame) comprises material gleaned from years of research and exploration into the forgotten songs and sounds of these Isles. \u2018Ground Of Its Own\u2019 brings together songs directly sourced from English Gypsy and Irish and Scottish Traveller communities until now unheard in the wider music world. Sam\u2019s time has been spent learning their characterful and inimitable singing styles, and deep knowledge of the land and the relationships these songs have with their history and ancestry. With this experience at the albums core, many of our indigenous musical principals \u2013 such as traditional song having pulse but not always rhythm \u2013 have helped create a contemporary idea of how future folk music might sound. What \u2018Ground Of Its Own\u2019 sets out is a new method for the interpretation of folk song which seeks to honour this rich native art form whilst marrying it to a resourceful, contemporary approach that explores the tapestries of lost sounds and new sounds that surround us always. Expect compositions filled with Jew\u2019s Harps, Hangs, Hammer Dulcimers, Alpine Horns, Auto Harps, Shruti Boxes and Gas Cylinders amongst many others but ultimately the voice and Sam\u2019s passion for breathing new life in to these jewels on our doorstep. All combined, what is created is an album of depth and vitality that reaches to the absolute heart of the tradition in a respectful but highly modern manner.<\/p>\n

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Ground of Its Own is wonderful. The singing is sublime and exquisite! It\u2019s gentle and despairing, trancelike and tender. Strokes of genius there I think! Shirley Collins<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Sam Lee makes this record public he\u2019s going to find himself with a success story on his hands… \u00a0\u00a0Fiona Talkington, Late Junction<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A wonderful singer and fascinating character. He\u2019s working with musicians in a very interesting and unusual way, his arrangements are unlike anything anyone has ever really heard before. \u00a0 \u00a0Joe Boyd<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well it feels like its been a long time coming but here at last is somebody doing really creative things with traditional English Folk Song from the ground breaking new album. \u00a0 \u00a0Verity Sharp Radio 3 Late Junction<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n