The album is described as variously big and filmic, haunting and gentle, timeless and highly creative with love songs, life songs, shape shifting old English folk songs and a gender switching new take on a Ralph McTell classic.
Mishaped Pearls was formed in 2009 as a collaboration between songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ged Flood and multilingual mezzosoprano Manuela (pictured on album cover), who loves ancient poetry and writes many of the evocative lyrics.
Ged has written original songs for the album as well as revisiting old folk songs. He plays acoustic and tenor guitars, tenor banjo, mandolin, saz, baglama, charango and contributes lead vocals on some numbers.
Producer Gerry Diver plays violin, piano, bass, dulcimer, ukulele and slide guitar. Other musicians featured in Thamesis include Calie Hough (percussion), Andrew Sleightholme, Tom Finigan and Massimo Troiani. The current live band line-up is completed by newest member Laurel S. Pardue on fiddle who has toured with Sam Lee.
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Author: World Music Central News Room
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