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2007 studio album by Dalla
Rooz
Released April 26, 2007 (2007-04-26 )
Genre
Folk Length 48 :34
More Salt (2004)
Rooz (2007)
Cribbar (2010)
Rooz (English: Red ) is the third album by Cornish folk band
Dalla . It was released in 2007,
[1] also as a download.
Some of the songs in the album are in the
Cornish language .
Track listing
Dean Younk a Gernow (The young man of Cornwall) - Slow duet
Tane an Gove (The smith's fire) - Fast instrumental
[2]
Bal Maiden's
Chant
[3] Fast duet
King of Sweden - also known as "Marriage may become a curse" - Instrumental faster and faster
Can Dilly (Dilly song)
[4] - Call and response song
Tansys
Golowan (Midsummer bonfire)
[5] - Lively instrumental with world music flavour (Tune composed by J. Mills).
Crantock Games
[6] Slow and thoughtful interpretation for duet
Descent
[7]
Seventeen Come Sunday
[8] - Jolly duet
Hernen Rooz (Red herring) - Instrumental, with an unusual finish
Personnel
Dalla members
Hilary Coleman - Clarinet, bass clarinet, vocals, whistle, rock smashing
Neil Davey -
Bouzouki , mandolin, fiddle,
crowdy crawn ,
[9] vocals, clapping
Bec Applebee -
Darabuka , pandera,
[10] vocals, clapping, rock smashing
Guests
Genevieve Applebee - rock smashing
Pol Hodge - vocals
References
^ SOURCE: Sleeve notes 5-060109-992738
^ Tane an Gove: the title refers to
Michael An Gof
^
Bal maiden : Bal=Mine. Bal maidens were employed at the surface to break up ore-bearing rocks and to pick out the bits worth smelting.
^
The Dilly Song : Words and music at
http://www.folkinfo.org
^ Tansys Galowan: Feast of St John (23 June) was the occasion for bonfires across Cornwall.
^ Crantock Games: The song commemorates a murder on the Crantock Feast Day 16 May 1721
^ Descent: The Cornish words are God's, when casting Lucifer into Hell in the Cornish drama Gwreans an Bys: The Creation of the World (
William Jordan , 1611), spoken by
Pol Hodge .
^ WP article:
Seventeen Come Sunday gives words but a different version is used in Rooz .
^ Crowdy Crawn: the Cornish version of a
Bodhrán
^ Pandera: a
Galician tambourine.