Tale To Tell

The Mummers | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: April 6, 2009
• Label: Big Bass Drum
• Copyright: 2009 Big Bass Drum
• Total Length: 42:44
• Genres:
• ASIN: B0026DJ4QU
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,658 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stupendously beautiful!!!, July 7, 2009

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Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tale to Tell (Audio CD)

The Mummers are a UK band with a swirling orchestral sound that wouldn't sound out of place on the soundtrack to some period movie, or at some Fairground. Led by vocalist Raissa Khan-Panni, who manages to sound Jazzy, and like Kate Bush and Björk all at once, they sound unlike anyone else out there.

Khan-Panni studied Classical music (especially Oboe and Piano) and this richness is carried over into their music. Lots of lush densely woven musical interludes with her vocals floating delicately above.

Everything stands out really; the Jazzy/Waltz-like "Wanderland" (simply magical), the horn filled "Lorca and the orange tree" (on which you'd swear it was Björk singing, the swinging "This is heaven (Glow)", "Tale to tell" (with a beautiful extensive intro), the swirling and tgwinkling "Teardropsfall", and the closing Jazzy melancholic "Nightbus" (big bass sound and lush strings, gentle chiming and a fantastic horn break). Opening cut and lead-off sngle "March of the dawn" is driven by darting triumphant sounding horns and a cascading wall of harmonies, over a gently marching beat.

Listening to this album is like stepping into a magical world filled with elves and fairies and vibrant colours. Like a visit to the circus (she even mentions a Circus in "Wake me up") with Khan-Panni's vocals the ringleader. Pure magic!

5.0 out of 5 stars Dreamy and Unique, March 19, 2011

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Bill Hughes "Libertywithout" (Liberty Lake, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tale to Tell (Audio CD)

First saw this group in early 2010 on a repeat airing of "Later" with Jools Holland, Ovation Channel (originally aired April 10, 2009). Found it interesting and appealing, but not an out of the park experience - UNTIL LATER. Many months later, someone uploaded mp3s of their album on a torrent. Then the attraction became serious. A lover of artie stuff, I'd never heard anything like it! I searched the Web for news and history of this group from England. I learned that the group's pianist/creator, Mark Harwood, committed suicide by hanging himself outside his tree house. Damn, so many die young. Susannah McCorkle jumped off her balcony in NYC. Nancy Lamott died young of cancer. I'm ordering this CD from an Amazon partner for real fidelity quality of `.wav' files and also their latest, Mink Hollow though haven't heard a note of it. I hope they keep their wonderful concept going. The opening vocal bars of some of these songs (like Wonderland and March of the Dawn - performed on Jools Holland "Later") resonate in warmth, instantly melting mind and body into the dreaminess some have mentioned here. Last time that happened to me was the opening vocal of Say It (Over And Over Again), by Karrin Allyson, on Ballads. Pardon me while I go back and listen to that one again .....

5.0 out of 5 stars Dreamy, sensuous, eclectic music, October 11, 2010

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This review is from: Tale to Tell (Audio CD)

This album hypnotizes the listener into a fantasy world rife with dreamy, sensory music and lyrics, juxtaposed against a carnival-like, Bavarian-folk-song playfulness. Totally unexpected; unlike anything else currently produced. Whole album is great, with stars like "Wonderland." Several videos of their songs available to view up on YouTube.