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TUNNG
This Is
Tunng.....Live From The BBC
Release
date immediata
Label:
Full Time Hobby/Self
COLLETTIVO
INGLESE TRA I PIU’ APPREZZATI DEGLI ULTIMI ANNI, I TUNNG SI SONO ORMAI
RITAGLIATI UNO SPAZIO DI PRIMO PIANO NEL PANORAMA DI QUEL GENERE MUSICALE NOTO
COME FOLKTRONICA.
LIVE FROM BBC ARRIVA DOPO QUATTRO ALBUM DI STUDIO
E RACCOGLIE IL MEGLIO DELLA BAND, QUANDO IL FOLK DELLA TRADIZIONE BRITANNICA
INCONTRA L’ELETTRONICA, TRA CREATIVITA’ E CONTAMINAZIONI SONORE.
For any British band, the
first live BBC session is a rite of passage, an entrance to a club stewarded by
Peel, Lamacq, Harris and any number of legendary names from the annals of
broadcasting history. Then, some years later, you realise that you’ve recorded
an album’s worth of material.
That’s what the peerless
experimental pop band Tunng found,
on looking back at a series of radio sessions ranging from their early days in
2005 to their latter days in 2010. So they compiled the lot into a
career-spanning LP, This Is Tunng… Live From The BBC. “We realised we had quite a big bunch of sessions, and on listening back
to them felt they sort of represented a nice little journey for us,” says
band member Phil Winter. “There’s quite a
range there, from the big full-on ones to the small intimate ones.”
He’s not wrong: this
album takes in intimate acoustic performances for Rob Da Bank to their
collaboration with Malian desert blues heroes Tinariwen, Tamatant Tilay. Radio 2 legend Bob Harris may or may not be on one
track, too. “I seem to remember him
‘playing’ a telephone directory along to one of our songs,” says Phil. “The Tinariwen session was amazing, because
we didn't have a clue what we were going to play. It was so great just hearing
it slowly come together.”
Throughout the album, the
performances present the special kind of magic that happens when Tunng play
live: the unpredictability of improvisation and the warm sound of myriad
instruments dancing around band leader Mike Lindsay’s honeyed tones.
“Tunng are almost from another time, another place,” says BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, for whom a
number of the sessions were recorded. “When
I think of Tunng I think of festivals, of sun, of smiles.”
Aside from this special
release, there are exciting things afoot in the Tunng camp. With a new Tunng
album due next year, Mike is currently hiding out in Iceland making a solo
album with members of the local Husavik community under the name Cheek Mountain Thief. Mike fell in love
with Iceland after playing Airwaves 2010 and decided to spend two months in the
remote Northeast town of Husavik, borrowing enough equipment to build a small
studio in a cabin facing the Kinnafjoll (cheek mountains). Mike has since moved
to Iceland and the album has developed more, including guest vocals from Sin
Fang, Mugison and the Kafibarrinn choir. Due for an early 2012 release too,
it’s set to be bumper year for Tunng fans.
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