2024 Charity Shop Purchases #27 -Rozi Plain -Inside Over Here
Another 50p Folk CD purchase but one which is radically different from yesterday's offering by Cara Dillon.
It was our dear friend The Swede who first brought Rozi Plain to my attention leading me to purchase her2015 album Friends. Therefore when I saw her 2008 debut Inside Over Here for 50p in a St Andrews charity shop I naturally pounced. It is on the Fence label and given its history and local proximity to St Andrews I was fairly chuffed to nab it.
It was subsequently re-released on Lost Map Records the label run be ex Fence Collective member Johnny Lynch (aka The Pictish Trail). On their website Johnny rants about the record in his inimitable style
Here is a lo-fi, naturalistic collection of home-spun recordings that marks the arrival of a unique new voice in British alt-folk. These ten songs capture the burnt haze of endless summers, ebbing and flowing woozily, washing like the tide over your feet.
Rozi’s ethereal, breathy vocal takes centre stage, harmonising over itself, without need for reverbs or studio frills. Clarinet, saxophone, accordion, banjo, soft percussion and drums each play a supporting role, but often the voice is accompanied only by itself and a guitar. Songs practically inhabit the rooms within which they were recorded, bouncing around the four walls; they sway back and forth with the crackling hiss of tape and creak of floorboards on opening track ‘Let’s Go’; they jauntily click, purr and whistle on the banjoled ‘Knives and Forks’; they slide and squeak over acoustic guitar strings on ‘Foot Out’.
There is no way I can compete with that!
I've seen her play with This Is The Kit a couple of times. I quite like her stuff but a direct comparison between the two of them probably doesn't help her.
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Quite liked these two tracks - quite liking tracks isn't a sound basis for buying an album I suppose but a good proportion of my record collection has been bought on quite liking a couple of tracks of the artist in question. A music lover's dilemma in a nutshell.
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