Music rec for November
Nov. 15th, 2019 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeOr, before we get into the time of year when I only listen to Christmas carols...
I know it's part of the point of this song that it speaks to 'every night and all', but I always associate it most with the lengthening nights of autumn, and this recording in particular even more so. Lots of versions arrange it quite neatly in choral style with intricate layered harmonies, and while they sound very nice, Alasdair Roberts's recording always feels more appropriate to the mood of the lyrics. The instrumentals are weird and haunting; the singers sound like a crowd of mourners gathered around in the candlelight, rather than a polished choir. This sounds like the sort of world where the souls of the dead pass over to Whinny Moor and brave the fires of Purgatory, and the sort of night (every night and all) when the living remember just how close those other places are.
I know it's part of the point of this song that it speaks to 'every night and all', but I always associate it most with the lengthening nights of autumn, and this recording in particular even more so. Lots of versions arrange it quite neatly in choral style with intricate layered harmonies, and while they sound very nice, Alasdair Roberts's recording always feels more appropriate to the mood of the lyrics. The instrumentals are weird and haunting; the singers sound like a crowd of mourners gathered around in the candlelight, rather than a polished choir. This sounds like the sort of world where the souls of the dead pass over to Whinny Moor and brave the fires of Purgatory, and the sort of night (every night and all) when the living remember just how close those other places are.
