From time to time I wander in the cybernetic space in order to find new inspirations and discover music (Sounds like a
Star Trek mission). In one of my last trips I discovered a wonderful album made by
Anais Mitchell and
Jefferson Hamer called
Child Ballads. Since I've always loved ballads and I've got my own children, I listened to the record with the promising title, hoping it would be as good as
Murder Ballads by
Nick Cave And The Bed Seeds back there in the 90's.
Child Ballads is not a surprising development in the career of
Anais Mitchell since she already dealt with Greek Mythology in her highly acclaimed release
Hadestown, which was a "Folk opera" about the story of
Orpheus and
Eurydice. In this new project, she cooperated with
Jefferson Hamer and together they chose 7 Ballads from the 307
Child Ballads collected by
Francis James Child in the 19th century. The result is an acoustic folk album which help this ballads come to life again. It might be one of the under-rated albums of 2013 but who cares! I got the chance to hear this hidden treasure. Down below you can hear five songs of
Anais Mitchell, three of them from the last record.
Clyde's Water - Child 216 (Taken From Child Ballads, 2013)
Young Man In America (Taken From Young Man In America, 2012)
Tam Lin - Child 39 (Taken From Child Ballads, 2013)
Flowers (Eurydice's Song) (Taken From Hadestown, 2010)
Willie Of Winsbury - Child 100 (Taken From Child Ballads, 2013)
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