Ayreheart: Barley Moon (2015) [Blu-ray]

Ayreheart blends the "art" and "folk" traditions so organically, we are reminded how artificial such a separation actually is. "John Barleycorn," the witty view of brewing as an act of torture and abuse, is so perfect that Vaughan Williams himself wondered if it may have been created by "an antiquarian revivalist," who then saw it pass "into popular currency and become 'folklorised'." Many in the folk-rock movement recorded the song, most prominently the group Traffic in their album named for the song itself. Ronn McFarlane was true to his ancestry then, and has kept that flame alive in creative and newly-evolving ways with Ayreheart. Is it art music? Is it folk? Could it possibly matter less?

Recorded: 26-29 May 2015
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States

Треклист:
1. John Barleycorn
2. In a Garden so Green
3. Mr. Dowland’s Midnight
4. Fortune my Foe
5. My Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe
6. Come Again
7. Henry Martyn
8. Lully lulle
9. Solus cum Sola
10. M. George Whitehead, His Almand
11. Twa Corbies
12. Woods so Wild
13. Ddoi di dai
14. Nottamun Town