> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: The Seas Are Deep
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: The Seas Are Deep
The Seas Are Deep private issue WOO1512 (CD, UK, 6 December 2011) |
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Ben Walker;
Artwork by Dom Cooper
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, recorders;
Jo Silverston: cello [2-4, 6];
Ben Walker: guitars, everything else
Tracks
- Silver Dagger (Roud 22620; Laws M4) (3.19)
- Hares on the Mountain (Roud 329) (3.31)
- Lily of the West (Roud 957; Laws P29; Henry H578) (4.13)
- My Donal (4.00)
- Black Is the Colour (Roud 3103) (3.08)
- John Riley (Roud 270; Laws M8; G/D 1:22; Henry H468) (4.22)
- The Seas Are Deep (4.14)
- Rain and Snow (Roud 3634) (3.04)
- Reynardine (Roud 397; Laws P15; G/D 2:333) (3.33)
All tracks trad. except
Track 4 Owen Hand
> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Homemade Heartache
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Homemade Heartache
Homemade Heartache Folkroom Records FRR002 (CD EP, UK, 21 July 2012) |
Recorded and mixed in Ben’s Room;
Mastered by Ian Shepherd;
Design and illustration by Dom Cooper
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, guitar [2, 4];
Ben Walker: guitars, bass, mandolin;
Basia (Barbara) Bartz: violins, accordion
Tracks
- Just Travelling (3.35)
- Forever and More (2.50)
- Homemade Heartache (4.21)
- Every Tear Means Change (3.32)
All tracks trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Fire and Fortune
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Fire and Fortune
Fire and Fortune Folkroom Records FRR007 (LP, UK, 2012) |
Recorded and mixed by Ben Walker in Ben’s Room
except track 4 recorded at Urchin Studios;
Mastered by Ian Shepherd at Mastering Media;
Photography by Ondine Goldswain, Dizzyfinch Studios
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, recorder,saxophone, kitchen floor;
Ben Walker: guitars, fretless bass, keyboards
with
Basia Bartz: violin;
Jo Silverston: cello;
Jim Moray: piano;
John Parker: double bass;
Ivan Mendiola: drums;
Ruari Glasheen: bodhrán
Tracks
Side 1
- After Me (3.36)
- The Month of January (Roud 175; Laws P20; G/D 6:1176) (3.55)
- The Seasons (Roud 169) (3.42)
- Another Perfect Love (2.37)
- My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose (Roud 12946) (3.20)
- Sycamore Tree (3.04)
Side 2
- Fire and Fortune (3.01)
- Green Grow the Laurels (Roud 279; G/D 6:1138; Henry H165ab) (4.05)
- Anyone But Me (3.31)
- A Pauper and a Poet (3.05)
- No Such Certainty (2.34)
- When a Knight Won His Spurs (2.05)
Tracks 1, 11 written by Josienne Clarke, Ben Walker, arr. by Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke;
Track 2 trad. arr. Josienne Clarke, Ben Walker;
Track 3 trad. arr. Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke, additional text adaption by Josienne Clarke;
Track 4, 6, 9-10 written by Josienne Clarke, arr. by Ben Walker;
Track 5, 12 trad. arr. Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke;
Track 7 written by Josienne Clarke, arr. by Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke;
Track 8 trad. arr. Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke, additional text Josienne Clarke;
> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Midwinter
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Midwinter
Midwinter private issue JCBW001 (CD, UK, 1 December 2013) |
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Ben Walker;
Artwork by Dom and Sadie
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, recorder, flute, saxophone;
Ben Walker: acoustic guitar, classical guitar, mandolin, bass
Tracks
Original CD
- In the Bleak Midwinter (3.46)
- Adam Lay Ybounden (Deo Gracias) (2.59)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem (Roud 24752) (3.54)
- Away in a Manger (Roud 25304) (2.36)
- Once in Royal David’s City (2.48)
- Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (Roud 21931) (2.18)
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Roud 394) (2.59)
- We Three Kings (Roud 24751) (2.58)
- Shepherds, Arise! (Roud 1207) (3.15)
- Balulalow (Roud 23036) (2.37)
- Silent Night (Roud 27088) (4.02)
- The Twelve Days of Christmas (Roud 68; G/D 3:637) (3.49)
2015 CD
- River (4.02)
- See Amid the Winter’s Snow (Roud 27069) (3.36)
All tracks trad. except
Track 1 Christina Rossetti, Gustav Holst;
Track 2 based on the setting by Boris Ord;
Track 3 Phillips Brook;
Track 6 based on the setting by John Gardner;
Track 10 based on the setting by Benjamin Britten;
Track 11 Franz-Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr;
Track 13 Joni Mitchell;
Track 14 based on the setting by John Goss
> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour
Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour Folkroom Records FRR 1401 (CD, UK, 1 October 2014) |
Produced by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker;
Recorded in Ben’s Room and at Crypt Studios;
Engineered and mixed by Ben Walker;
Mastered by Ian Shepherd;
Photography by Ondine Goldswain;
Designe and layout by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, saxophone, flute, tenor and descant recorders;
Ben Walker: guitars, mandolin, banjo, keyboards and programming;
Jim Moray: piano;
Ruairi Glasheen: percussion;
John Parker: double bass;
Sam Brookes: vocals [2];
Samantha Whates: backing vocals [3, 5, 11];
Pete Truin,
Jamie Doe: backing vocals [12];
Anna Jenkins: violin, viola;
Basia Bartz, Jessie Moncreiff, Maya Lucia Amin-Smith: violins;
Charlie Stock: viola;
Jo Silverston, Hannah Marshall: cellos;
Nick Malcolm: trumpet;
Jim Rattigan: French horn;
Amy Turner: oboe;
Ivan Mendiola: drums [8]
Tracks
- Silverline (3.49)
- A Simple Refrain (2.02)
- It Would Not Be a Rose (3.22)
- I Wonder What’s Keeping My True Love Tonight (Roud 858; G/D 1:52, 6:1139) (4.20)
- The Tangled Tree (4.37)
- I Never Learned French (2.30)
- Moving Speeches (2.56)
- Mainland (4.13)
- The Queen of Hearts (Roud 3195) (2.53)
- Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180) (3.14)
- Now You Know (3.45)
- Earth and Ash and Dust (2.46)
- Water to Wine (2.26)
Songs by Josienne Clarke, orchestration and arrangement by Ben Walker except
Tracks 4, 9-10 trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Through the Clouds
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Through the Clouds
Through the Clouds Rough Trade Records RTRADST794 / RTRADDS794 (10" EP / CD EP, UK, 4 March 2016) |
This EP has re-recordings of four previously released songs to memorize the label change to Rough Trade Records.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Ben Walker;
Track 3 originally mastered by Ian Shepheard;
All other and additional mastering by Mike Hillier;
Mastered for vinyl by Fluid
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, saxophone, flute, tenor and descant recorders;
Ben Walker: guitars, mandolin, banjo, keyboards and programming
Tracks
Side 1
- Silverline (3.31)
- Hares on the Mountain (Roud 329) (3.35)
Side 2
- The Tangled Tree (4.37)
- Done (3.33)
Songs by Josienne Clarke, orchestration and arrangement by Ben Walker except
Track 2 trad. arr. Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke
> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Overnight
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Overnight
Overnight Rough Trade Records RTRADLP798/RTRADCD798 (LP/CD, UK, 14 October 2016) |
Produced by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker;
String arrangements and additional orchestration by Ben Walker;
Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Wales, 7-13 March 2016;
Engineered by Ben Walker and Tim Lewis;
Additional recording by Ben Walker at Ben’s Room;
Mixed by Ben Walker;
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering;
Inside sleeve photo by Jenna Foxton;
Additional source photography by Louise Curtis;
Design by Philip Laslett
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, recorders, saxophone;
Ben Walker: acoustic and electric guitars, synthesisers, programming, glockenspiel;
John Parker: double bass;
Kit Downes: piano, Rhodes, Hammond organ;
James Maddren: drums, percussion;
Anna Jenkins: viola;
Samantha Whates: additional vocals [1, 7, 10];
Jim Rattigan: French horn;
Paul Mosley: euphonium;
Heather Ryall: bass clarinet
Tracks
Side 1
- Nine Times Along (3.30)
- Something Familiar (2.25)
- Sweet the Sorrow (3.07)
- Dawn of the Dark (3.27)
- Dark Turn of Mind (4.22)
- Weep You No More Sad Fountains (3.34)
Side 2
- The Light of His Lamp (3.59)
- Sleep (2.32)
- Milk and Honey (4.21)
- The Waning Crescent (3.36)
- Overnight (2.54)
- Light of Day (3.52)
All songs by Josienne Clarke, orchestration and arrangement by Ben Walker except
Tracks 4, 12 Josienne Clarke, Ben Walker;
Track 5 Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings arr. Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke;
Track 6 John Dowland arr. Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke;
Track 8 Ivor Gurney arr. Ben Walker, Josienne Clarke;
Track 9 Jackson C. Frank arr. Josienne Clarke, Ben Walker
> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Seedlings All
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Seedlings All
Seedlings All Rough Trade Records RTRADCD898 (CD, UK, 23 March 2018) |
Produced by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker;
String arrangements, additional arrangements and programming by Ben Walker;
Recorded by Andy Hughes at Eastcote Studios;
Additional recording by Ben Walker at Ben’s Room;
Mixed by Ben Walker;
Track 7 mixed by Sonny Johns;
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering;
Design by Philip Lasletl
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, saxophone, clarinet, flute, tenor recorder;
Ben Walker: acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, ukulele, drum machine, Moog;
Kit Downes: piano, harmonium;
Ruth Goller: double bass, electric bass;
James Maddren: drums;
Samantha Whates: backing vocals;
Anna Jenkins,
Emily Hall: violin, viola;
Basis Bartz: violin;
Jo Silverston,
Maya McCourt,
Amy Squirrel: cello;
Andy Cutting: melodeon
Tracks
- Chicago (4.40)
- Bells Ring (4.02)
- Seedlings All (3.35)
- Maybe I Won’t (2.27)
- Tender Heart (4.14)
- All Is Myth (3.12)
- Ghost Light (3.57)
- Sad Day (3.01)
- Things of No Use (3.17)
- Bathed in Light (4.01)
- Only Me Only (2.53)
All tracks written by Josienne Clarke except
Tracks 8-9 Josienne Clarke, Ben Walker
> Folk Music > Records > Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Lastnight
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker: Lastnight
Lastnight Rough Trade Records no number (CD EP, UK, 23 March 2018) |
This EP of outtakes from the Overnight recording sessions was added as a bonus CD to early orders of the Seedlings All album.
Musicians
Josienne Clarke: vocals, recorders, saxophone;
Ben Walker: acoustic and electric guitars, synthesisers, programming, glockenspiel
Tracks
- When to Then (2.13)
- Milk and Honey (3.16)
- For All We Know (3.04)
Track 1 Josienne Clarke, Ben Walker;
Track 2 Jackson C. Frank;
Track 3 J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis
> Folk Music > Records > Ben Walker: The Fox on the Downs
Ben Walker: The Fox on the Downs
The Fox on the Downs Folkroom Records FRR1801 (CD EP, UK, 14 September 2018) |
Recorded by Ben Walker;
Mastered by Mike Hillier
Musicians
Ben Walker: guitars
Tracks
- A Trip to Nettlebed (3.37)
- Lachrimae Pavan (4.12)
- A Day at the Races / The Fox on the Downs (3.01)
- The Cross Kings / The Pepperpot (2.53)
Track 1 trad. arr. Ben Walker;
Track 2 John Dowland arr. Ben Walker;
Tracks 3-4 Ben Walker
> Folk Music > Records > Ben Walker: Echo
Ben Walker: Echo
Echo Folkroom Records FRR1902 (CD, UK, 5 July 2019) Rings / The Island Folkroom Records FRR1901 (single, UK, 17 May 2019) |
Following last year’s critically acclaimed EP, Ben Walker has announced his debut solo album Echo, to be released on July 5 via Folkroom Records.
In divided times, Echo reflects centuries-old words back to us for today, reimagined in new music. Drawing on field recordings from the EFDSS library, the newly established Sussex Tradition archive and lyrics from the 18th and 19th centuries, with composition influenced by contemporary classical and electronic music and Ben’s trademark fingerstyle, Echo combines original instrumental pieces, traditional songs and poems set to music.
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering;
Photography by Ben Webb
Musicians
Ben Walker: guitars;
Basia Bartz: violin;
Anna Jenkins: violin: viola;
Jo Silverston: cello;
John Parker: double bass;
Thom Ashworth: vocals [2];
Laura Hockenhull: vocals [3];
Hazel Askew: vocals [5];
Laura Ward: vocals [7],
flute [11];
JinnWoo: vocals [8];
Bella Hardy: vocals, fiddle [9];
Kitty Macfarlane: vocals [10];
Katherine Price: oboe [11]
Tracks
- Afon (3.02)
- The Echoing Green (2.30)
- Ha’nacker Mill (2.50)
- Rings (5.52)
- Let Me in at the Door (3.22)
- Cross Fell (3.34)
- On Humber Bank (Roud 1493; TYG 74; G/D 6:1160) (4.37)
- How Stands the Glass Around (3.28)
- The Island (4.02)
- Nurses’ Songs (3.08)
- Eostre (2.48)
Tracks 1, 6, 11 Ben Walker;
Tracks 2, 10 from Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (1789);
Track 3 from the singing of Bob Copper courtesy of the Sussex Traditions archive, words and tune by Hilaire Belloc (1923);
Track 4 includes George Maynard singing A Sailor in the North Country, recorded by Ken Stubbs. Elements based on The Ring taken from Skillern, 24 Country Dances for the Year 1780;
Track 5 taken from The Witch by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1893);
Track 7 based on a broadside ballad The Effects of Love, said to be the last note of a young lady of Hull who drowned herself in the Humber on 17 December 1812;
Track 8 trad. (c. 1712) arr. Ben Walker;
Track 9 taken from Floating Island by Dorothy Wordsworth (c. 1830)
> Folk Music > Records > Ben Walker: The Rakes of Adair
Ben Walker: The Rakes of Adair
The Rakes of Adair Folkroom Records FRR2001 (EP, UK, 6 November 2020) |
Produced by Ben Walker
Musicians
Ben Walker: guitars
Tracks
- The Rakes of Adair (4.02)
- Clanuff’s Delight (2.49)
- Eiry na Greany (The Rising of the Sun) (4.02)
- The Seas Are Deep (3.24)
- Sí Beag, Sí Mór (The Little Fairy Hill and the Great Fairy Hill) (2.26)
Track 1 from Rutherford’s Country Dances (1756);
Tracks 2-3 from a book from the Irish Traditional Music Archive (1724);
Track 4 Turlough O’Carolan, from the Irish fingerstyle compilation album
Music of Ireland (1988), played by Martin Simpson;
Track 5 Turlough O’Carolan (1691)
> Folk Music > Records > Ben Walker & Kirsty Merryn: Life and the Land
Ben Walker & Kirsty Merryn: Life and the Land
Life and the Land Folkroom Records FRR2102 (CD EP, UK, 3 September 2021) |
Recorded by Ben Walker and Kirsty Merryn;
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering;
Photography by Todd MacDonald
Musicians
Kirsty Merryn: vocals, piano;
Ben Walker: guitars, banjo
Tracks
- John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559) (2.31)
- Jolly Ploughboy (Roud 163; TYG 32) (3.40)
- New-Mown Hay (Roud 2941) (2.56)
- Westlin’ Winds (Roud 6936) (4.19)
- The Scarecrow (4.11)
- hidden bonus track: The Farmer’s Toast (Roud 1603) (2.19)
Tracks 1-3, 6 trad.;
Track 4 Robert Burns;
Track 5 Lal & Mike Waterson
Video
Ben Walker and Kirsty Merryn perform Westlin’ Winds:
> Folk Music > Records > Ben Walker: Banish Air From Air
Ben Walker: Banish Air From Air
Banish Air From Air Folkroom Records FRR2301CD (CD, UK, 24 February 2023) |
Produced by Ben Walker;
Recorded and mixed by Ben Walker in Brighton except
Jo Silverston recorded by Ben Capp in Bristol,
Anna Jenkins recorded by Matt Nasir in Stroud,
Tom Wright and Nancy Kerr recorded at Powered Flight Music in Sheffield;
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering;
Published by SGO Music;
Artwork: ‘Entropy’ by Justin van Genderen
Musicians
Ben Walker: guitars;
Sophie Jamieson: vocals [1];
Nancy Kerr: vocals [3],
fiddle;
Emily Mae Winters: vocals [4];
Louis Brennan: vocals [5];
Lucy Alexander: vocals [7];
Sam Lee: vocals [9];
Kirsty Merryn: vocals [11];
Anna Jenkins: violin, viola;
Basia Bartz: violin;
Jo Silverston: cello;
John Parker: double bass;
Tom Wright: drums
Tracks
- Banish Air From Air (2.59)
- Starlings (3.48)
- The Way Through the Woods (3.14)
- The Yews of Borrowdale (3.44)
- Eggshells (3.37)
- Neptune (4.49)
- King Storm (Roud V7001) (4.07)
- Showers on Ascension Day (3.51)
- There Will Come Soft Rains (2.28)
- Northern Lights (3.43)
- Kepler and Sol (4.15)
Music by Ben Walker;
Track 1: words Emily Dickinson;
Track 3: Rudyard Kipling;
Track 4: refrain from William Wordsworth’s The Yew-Trees;
Track 7: trad.;
Track 9: words Sara Teasdale
> Folk Music > Records > Ben Walker
Other records with Ben Walker
Josienne Clarke, One Light Is Gone, CD, Hatfish Music HATCD149875, 2010
Various Artists, Sportsmen Seafarers Scumbags & Psychos: Songs & Tunes From the Leigh Folk Festival 2013, CD, Thames Delta MUD006CD, 2013
Various Artists, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014, 2 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK15, 2014
Various Artists, Songs for the Voiceless, CD, Haystack HAYCD006, 2014
Jackie Oates, The Spyglass & the Herringbone, CD, ECC ECC015, 2015 (co-produced by Ben Walker)
Various Artists, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015, 2 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK16, 2015
Various Artists, fRoots 53, free download album w/ fRoots magazine 382, 2015
Various Artists, Dog Days, Devil Fish & Darkest England: Songs & Tunes From 25 years of the Leigh Folk Festival, CD, Thames Delta MUD009, 2017
Various Artists, Vision & Revision: The First 80 Years of Topic Records, 2 CD/2 LP, Topic TXCD597, 2019
Various Artists, Strings That Nimble Leap, Fylde Guitars and Their Players, 2 CD, Fylde Guitars / Fellside FECD285, 2019