Music Banter - Vote for a FAIR club album before June 14

Every two weeks the Folk And International Roots Album Club votes for an album that they will listen to and discuss in the coming weeks.
Anyone can vote in this poll, but if you vote, please follow through and be ready to discuss whichever album wins the poll.

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Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1160832)

June Tabor - Ashore (2011)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hore_cover.jpg

Newer release from a prolific English folky.

^ This first album has been in the polls for quiet a while, but it`s never attracted many votes, so I think it should be given it`s LAST CHANCE; if it doesn`t win this week, it`ll stop appearing in future polls.

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Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1179376)

On the international side this is a rather peaceful diversion from Armenia featuring the duduk (a traditional reed woodwind). Not particularly ground breaking but a kind of melancholy beauty.

Songs From a World Apart - Lévon Minassian and Armand Amar.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

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Originally Posted by Jack Pat (Post 1180287)

Oh, I'll go ahead and nominate Dark Country Magic by Big Blood. It's an incredibly catchy, well-written psychedelic folk album with experimental tendencies.

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbn...ntry-magic.jpg

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Originally Posted by fazstp (Post 1192339)

Bourbon & Rosewater by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Jerry Douglas

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov...153918y0yx.jpg

^ According to fazstp, MB`s very own V.M.Bhatt expert, this album is better than his more publicised collaboration with Ry Cooder, "A Meeting By The River" .

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Fly,Fly, My Sadness by Huun-Huur-Tu (1996)

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/534353.jpg

This starkly beautiful album is not for the faint-hearted. Uplifting and uncompromising, you have to hear it to believe it.

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Originally Posted by Cru Hoor (Post 1195492)

Red Hash by Gary Higgins (cd release date: 2005)

Gary Higgins "I Pick Notes From The Sky" 1973 - YouTube

This week`s list ends with a new nomination from a new member. Welcome to the club, CH, and as always, many thanks to everyone who makes the effort to share their enthusiasm for FAIR music here :)