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The Children

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Sea People and The Base, a song about the Greenham Peace Camp, with Kath Tait on concertina and harmonica,
from Equals
Again, asample track from In Memory of Grace, the Children’s album in progress, with Darren Morris on virtual Hammond
Get Shaggin’ with Anne Wood and Annie Whitehead on violin and trombone, respectively; Feel Free with Anne Wood and Gail Brand (fiddle and ’bone again); and Next Millennium with Gail Brand and Alfredo Genovesi on ultramodified guitar, from The Children’s debut, Play
Grey Cat & the Blackbird and Howling Wolf, two creature features from The Children’s second album, Come Aboard
Going Out and Some Kind of Rain – City & Western songs from Rockingham Street
Heart of the World with Paul Barratt, drums, Hayereyah, harmonica, Terry Edwards, trumpet; and Democracy from The Health of the People
Track of the Pieces and Macaroon Two of the Songs from the Red Notebook I
Guitar Victims and Three Kings Two of the Songs from the Red Notebook II
Holy Hill and Your Love Is My Heaven with Jasper Hoiby on double bass, Becky Truscott on cello, Olivia Chaney on piano, from Love Walk

THE MIND SHOP, from Treetop Songs (see below)
Serinus serinus Jeff Hilson recites from Bird bird while The Mind Shop play ornithologically
My Bonie Bell Armorel Weston sings Robert Burns’s poem while The Mind Shop play hibernianly

There are other recent songs to be found on the home page

Forthcoming

The Health of the People

… is the highest law

2007, 10 songs: Heart of the World, Democracy, Flag with a Hole, Western Civilisation, Poison Ball, Hope Yet, Appetite Culture, Are You Now (Or Have You Ever Been)?, The Dog, Working on the Problem

Equals

… in the eyes

2006, 10 songs: Mother and Child, Tribulation, Sea People, National Omelette, The Base, So Long Babylon, Ructions, Silence is Golden, The Rest is History, Not the End of the World

Still waters… Fifteen tracks from the field of south suburban folk music, adorned with piano by Olivia Chaney, double bass by Jasper Høiby, saxophone by Charles A. Fagan and cello by Becky Truscott. First edition 2003, revised 2005.

Songs from the Red Notebook I

There was a red notebook and songs were written in it in the last century, about 20 years before they were recorded. February 2003

Songs from the Red Notebook II

Another set of 14 from the same manuscript. The dry bones joined together, the heart began to beat. August 2003.

Rockingham Street

New Sounds in City and Western. First edition 2002, revised 2005.

Come Aboard

A mix of Thames delta blues and metropolitan folksongs. First edition 2002, revised 2005.

Play

The debut CD by The Children, released in October 1999.

Treetop Songs

Improvised music and vocalised poetry from The Mind Shop. Hypnosis on a little shiny disc.

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