Through The Green Fuse
Grand Union
Release date: 14th September 2009
Cat No: AJXCD224
Grand Union’s debut album ‘Through The Green Fuse’ is a
perfect slice of laid back warm folk just right for the late summer/early
autumn days ahead. Signing to the label on the back of one track, ‘Morning
Brings The Light’ which featured on the label’s ‘New Testament
Of Folk’ album (AJXCD163), Grand Union have now delivered an album of
delights.
With influences ranging from a crossover of folk to hippy jazz to funk and through to gospel, Grand Union have already been favourably compared to The Pentangle, The 5th Dimension and Free Design.
The band has already been championed on radio with regular spins from Norman Jay and Gilles Peterson as well as great press reactions from Word and Mojo magazines.
Various band members have already had an impressive and varied musical history, with several records released with different projects in the past. Drummer Gerry Wood has supported The Rolling Stones and The Who and played on Ready Steady Go! whilst others have supported Bert Jansch.
Not only that but there is talent in the families too - Caspar’s father Bill Sewell was responsible for the animation on ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ from the Beatles classic ‘Yellow Submarine’.
From the driving acoustic pace of the flute-led, almost Tull inspired, ‘Jane Jane’, to the beautiful superb harmony arrangements of ‘Wonderful World’, running with the vibrance of a mountain spring, from the pastoral tones of ‘Sally Free And Easy’ to the frenetic build of album closer ‘I Remember My Life Like A Story’ Grand Union’s debut is a work of beauty that is the antithesis to the current wave of electro pop stalking the charts.
Grand Union Are:
Kate Vahl : Voice
Caspar Sewell : Voice and Double Bass
Simon O’Grady : Voice, Acoustic Guitar and Flute
Leigh Rose : Violin and Acoustic Guitar
Gerry Wood : Drums