The Imagined Village - Empire & Love - 'My Son John'

Opening track from 'Empire & Love', the latest album from The Imagined Village, released Jan 10th 2010 on Emmerson, Concrake and Constantine Records.

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One of the most unusual collaborations of the past decade, The Imagined Village made a significant impression with their critically acclaimed and commercially successful debut album (released via Peter Gabriel's Real World label). They toured extensively, appeared on TV's Later...With Jools show and won out at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. If the band had initially developed as a loose collective of singers and musicians, they have subsequently consolidated into a working, growing, organic aggregation. This stability in personnel is shiningly reflected in the brand new, follow-up album, which is also their first on the new record label ECC. Titled "Empire and Love", it is released on 11 January 2010, a few days prior to a major UK tour that will include prestigious gigs at Scotland's Celtic Connections Festival and London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.

The music on Empire and Love is played by the 'Parish Council' of Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Chris Wood, Simon Emmerson, Barney Morse Brown, Sheema Mukerjhee, Johnny Kalsi, Andy Gangadeen, Ali Friend and Simon Palmskin Richmond.

Filmed by Henry Dalton and Lisette Lawrie

Live footage filmed at Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport UK

Directed and Edited by Henry Dalton for TDF Films
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[ian1867]

30 years ago, as a teenager learning to play guitar and starting in the folk clubs, Martin Carthy inspired me.

2010, the old bugger is at it again. Inspire is not a strong enough word. Imagined Village takes music to levels that I don't feel I could describe adequately. They are THAT good...

[Scottishenglish]

Haunting..feel the hairs on the back of your neck raise as you listen to this...

[ListenLisse]

brilliant live. really like the sitar

[powerofacat]

i wonder if the story is true

[swp4445]

Just goes to show that true folk music is never far from the modern world.... amazing work from all involved.... depressing nothing has really changed in 200 yrs though! Cruel Brittania is still sending our young men and women of to fight while the chickenhawks stay at home....

[dannyallvey79]

Really good rendition.

[ryu8888]

1 person ran a race with a cannonball it seems...

[ElCalvo45]

Heard this recording for the first time yesterday, and it's been echoing in my head ever since. Simply wonderful!

[Fireperv]

For to long English folk music has suffered at the expense of that of our Celtic cousins, nice to see our music on the ascent, and as the bastard race we are , it's so wonderful to see the incorporation into our music , the influence of the latest group of incomers, my particular coming bunch over from France about 400 years ago......hand me that Hurdy Gurdy Ethel !!!

[billcmartin]

This is so wonderful, and on so many levels!