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The album, financed through a [[crowd-funding]] initiative,<ref name="Fan-Funding">{{cite web | url= http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/03/gwyneth-herberts-album-fan-funding.html?m=1 | title=Gwyneth Herbert's Album Fan-Funding | publisher=London Jazz | work=London Jazz News | date=8 March 2013 | accessdate=1 June 2013}}</ref> was released on Herbert's own Monkeywood label in May 2013 and launched in a series of concerts from 23 to 26 May at [[Wilton's Music Hall]] in London's East End.<ref name=" |
The album, financed through a [[crowd-funding]] initiative,<ref name="Fan-Funding">{{cite web | url= http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/03/gwyneth-herberts-album-fan-funding.html?m=1 | title=Gwyneth Herbert's Album Fan-Funding | publisher=London Jazz | work=London Jazz News | date=8 March 2013 | accessdate=1 June 2013}}</ref> was released on Herbert's own Monkeywood label in May 2013 and launched in a series of concerts from 23 to 26 May at [[Wilton's Music Hall]] in London's East End.<ref name="Wilton's">{{cite web | url= http://wiltons.org.uk/event.php?p=573 | title=Gwyneth Herbert 'The Sea Cabinet' | publisher=[[Wilton's Music Hall]] | year= 2013|accessdate=28 March 2013}}</ref> |
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The album takes the form of a song cycle and a storyline which Herbert describes a follows: "Every day, a woman walks the beach alone, obsessively collecting every discarded and washed up object that she finds. She takes them home to catalogue each one with the care and rigour of a scientist. The artefacts are then placed in 'The Sea Cabinet', and every one sings with the memory of a secret sea-set story – the victory of a Fishguard cobbler's wife, a jaded seaside hotel, a sunken chapel, the shifting sands of wartime Alderney, the dangerous allure of the King's Shilling, the loves and the losses and the stars and the whores and the drink and the drowning and the drip, drip, drip..."<ref name="Wilton's"/> |
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The Sea Cabinet, the sixth album by British singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert, was released on 20 May 2013.
History
In January 2010, Gwyneth Herbert was commissioned by Snape Maltings as artist in residence to write, record and perform a new body of work based on stories of the sea.[1] This was performed in October 2010 at Snape Maltings.[2][3]
Production
An album of this music, The Sea Cabinet,[4] was produced by Gwyneth Herbert and Dave Price. It was recorded and engineered by Robert Harder at Britten Studio at Aldeburgh Music, Suffolk, with additional recording and engineering by Robert Harder at Satellite Studios and by Dave Price at the Old Locker Room. The album was mixed by Robert Harder, Gwyneth Herbert and Dave Price and was mastered by Robert Harder.[5]
The album's cover artwork was by Sarah Jones, with photography by Rosie Reed Gold.[5]
Release
The album, financed through a crowd-funding initiative,[6] was released on Herbert's own Monkeywood label in May 2013 and launched in a series of concerts from 23 to 26 May at Wilton's Music Hall in London's East End.[7]
Story
The album takes the form of a song cycle and a storyline which Herbert describes a follows: "Every day, a woman walks the beach alone, obsessively collecting every discarded and washed up object that she finds. She takes them home to catalogue each one with the care and rigour of a scientist. The artefacts are then placed in 'The Sea Cabinet', and every one sings with the memory of a secret sea-set story – the victory of a Fishguard cobbler's wife, a jaded seaside hotel, a sunken chapel, the shifting sands of wartime Alderney, the dangerous allure of the King's Shilling, the loves and the losses and the stars and the whores and the drink and the drowning and the drip, drip, drip..."[7]
Reception
The Financial Times' four-star review called it "a concept album about the debt British history owes to the sea".[8] In a four-star review The Independent described it as a "cabinet of curiosities" with "a cabaret approach to storytelling, in rollicking sea shanties and waltzes", and "inventive" instrumentation "featuring wheezing accordions, warbling woodwind, tinkling music boxes and rolling bells".[9]
Track listing
| No | Title | Lyrics and music | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sea Theme" | Gwyneth Herbert | 2:13 | |
| 2 | "The Regal" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:19 | |
| 3 | "Sweeter" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:49 | |
| 4 | "Alderney" | Gwyneth Herbert | 4:30 | |
| 5 | "I Still Hear the Bells" | Gwyneth Herbert/Fiona Bevan | 4:03 | |
| 6 | "Fishguard Ladies" | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:00 | |
| 7 | "Plenty Time for Praying" | Gwyneth Herbert | 2:02 | |
| 8 | "Drink" | Gwyneth Herbert | 1:55 | |
| 9 | "The King's Shilling" | Gwyneth Herbert/Fiona Bevan | 6:45 | |
| 10 | "Promises" | Gwyneth Herbert/Heidi James | 5:12 | |
| 11 | "Lorelei" | Gwyneth Herbert | 6:40 | |
| 12 | "Drip" | Gwyneth Herbert | 4:06 | |
| 13 | "Sea Theme" (reprise) | Gwyneth Herbert | 3:38 | Total length = |
Personnel
On this album, Herbert shares vocals with singer-songwriter and guitarist Fiona Bevan, who also co-wrote two of the songs. She is backed by her regular band – Dave Price, Al Cherry and Sam Burgess – and is joined Harry Bird and Christophe Capewell from The Rubber Wellies.
- Gwyneth Herbert – vocals, piano, ukelele
- Fiona Bevan – vocals, guitar, piano
- Dave Price – percussion, strings, piano, programming, backing vocals
- Al Cherry – guitar, backing vocals
- Sam Burgess – bass, backing vocals
- Harry Bird – guitar, clarinet, piano strings, backing vocals
- Christophe Capewell – fiddle, accordion, piano, melodica, backing vocals
- Tom Allen – trumpets
- Ollie Parfitt – Moog synthesiser
- Jack Carr, Alex Carr and Robert Harder – additional mob chorus
- Will McVay – chain
- Brian Herbert – gramophone operator
References
- ^ "Singing songs of Suffolk and the sea". East Anglian Daily Times. 16 July 2010. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ "Gwyneth Herbert – An exploration of the sea". Aldeburgh Music. 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- ^ "Concert review: Gwyneth Herbert, An Exploration of the Sea, Britten Studio, Snape, 1st October 2010". The Art of the Torch Singer. 2 October 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
- ^ Dave Price (18 April 2012). "Sea Cabinet". Dave Price Music. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ^ a b Album sleeve notes
- ^ "Gwyneth Herbert's Album Fan-Funding". London Jazz News. London Jazz. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
- ^ a b "Gwyneth Herbert 'The Sea Cabinet'". Wilton's Music Hall. 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
- ^ David Honigmann (24 May 2013). "Gwyneth Herbert: The Sea Cabinet". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
- ^ Holly Williams (18 May 2013). "Album: Gwyneth Herbert, The Sea Cabinet (Monkeywood)". The Independent. London. Retrieved 18 May 2013.