God Feeds The Ravens

An exciting new release on Bo' Weavil's Wooden Weavil series. English acoustic guitarist C Joynes, a resident of Cambridge, has released a few self produced excellent CDRs. Joynes uses a heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition.His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. The version of 'Since I Lay My Burden Down' incorporates variations on lyrics and vocal lines drawn from a different song entirely. He has a penchant for reworking over-familiar pieces and stripping them of their kitsch and cliché, presenting them afresh, such as with 'Christmas Medley,' the arrangement of 'A Night In Tunisia,' and the gospel-based 'And When The Sun Begins To Shine.'

Joynes' music is instinctive, well-researched, placid, and evokes a certain simplicity and naiveté.
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C Joynes - God Feeds The Ravens (WEAVIL26DD)

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1.		C Joynes - Do As You Will Do	2m 42s
2.		C Joynes - Since I lay My Burden Down	2m 36s
3.		C Joynes - And When The Sun Begins To Shine	3m 19s
4.		C Joynes - The Godolphin Arabian	5m 15s
5.		C Joynes - The Village Of Manea	4m 35s
6.		C Joynes - Pirandos Tolos	2m 37s
7.		C Joynes - And There Seemed To Be A Great Clot Of Blood (…)	1m 22s
8.		C Joynes - Success (Version)	2m 23s
9.		C Joynes - A Palace Plot Or Some Woman's Jealousy	3m 5s
10.		C Joynes - Night On Djerba	3m 40s
11.		C Joynes - Christmas Melody	3m 45s
12.		C Joynes - West Cavaliers	2m 33s
13.		C Joynes - Sycamore, Sycamore	2m 35s
14.		C Joynes - Down In The Devil's Own Garden	2m 36s

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