Meniscus Hump Rec.
Kim Thompsett : Songs From the Uglee Meadow (UK,2008)***°
Kim Thompsett’s self-penned solo acoustic album is lovely. It has all the flavours well combined into one harmony of traditional English and Celtic folk, medieval songs and minstrel inspirations, a somehow magickal pagan related love for nature with twinky images of pinheads and faeries not too far to imagine in its conditions, with a sweetness of expression between fiction, myth and reality and old literature (2 tracks with lyrics by Cecil Fuller or T.H.White). Her voice has a folk flavour. Also her flute playing is worthy of mention. With soft bodhran, a few great arrangements by violin or hurdy-gurdy are also worth noticing. The core band consists of four members, while live there were sessions with 5 more people, including Will Summers from Circulus, Sarah Tadros from the Flat Cat Band, Philippe G Martin from Drohne and Ian Tullett from Ugenix. It is the perfect mix of old English with new Pagan that blends here so wonderful.
