More Luddism. With added electric tenor guitar.
I love these machine breaking songs. I'm less keen on the appeal in the last verse to the great and the good to lend their assistance, but you can't have everything you want. I've put this into a minor key, as the trad. major version is far too jolly, and nowhere near threatening enough.

General Ludd's Triumph

Mythern

Let Union Be - Slow Version

Where else but Bristol could you hear such a glorious bit of fusioneering? Where else but Bristol would you find an international Bhangra musician who also happens to be a lover of Trad. English folk song, and who sings in a shanty session every week?

Trad, Arr. Whistling Treason
Vocals, Tenor Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Drums - Whistling Treason
Tabla & Dholak - Jeevan Singh
Guest Vocals - Adrian Shaw, Jassy Easby, Ted Revive
Concertina - Ted Revive
Accordion - Jassy Easby

Eliza Lee - Extended Desi Fusion Mix

Luddite classic. Who hasn't considered a bit of industrial sabotage? You don't have to destroy your workplace, just feed your computer coffee and bunk off early. Phone in sick. Phone in well!

Trad/arr. Malarchist

The Cropper Lads

Vocal - Julie Forgues
Mandolin, tenor guitar, pieds, percussion, guimbarde - Chris Pierssené
Tabla - Jeevan Singh Chauhan

A collaboration between long lost cousins and the traditions of French-Canada and England. We start with Julie singing traditional French-Canadian song Au Chant De L'Alouette, and follow it with a whip through the English triple hornpipe Spinning Jenny. 

Julie's vocal recorded by Dôn Nodey at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai.

Everything else recorded, mixed and produced by Chris Pierssené at Dog & Lion Studio, Bradford on Avon, UK.

Lyrics:
On m'envoie–t–aux champs, c'est pour y cueillir
On m'envoie–t–aux champs, c'est pour y cueillir
Je n'ai point cueilli, j'ai cherché des nids
Au chant de l'alouette je veille et je dors
J'écoute l'alouette et puis je m'endors
Je n'ai point cueilli, j'ai cherché des nids
Je n'ai point cueilli, j'ai cherché des nids
J'ai trouvé la caille, assise sur son nid
J'ai trouvé la caille, assise sur son nid
J'ai trouvé la caille, assise sur son nid
Je lui marchai sur l'aile et la lui rompis
Je lui marchai sur l'aile et la lui rompis
Je lui marchai sur l'aile et la lui rompis
Elle m'a dit: "Pucelle, retire–toi d'ici!"
Elle m'a dit: "Pucelle, retire–toi d'ici!"
Elle m'a dit: "Pucelle, retire–toi d'ici!"
"Je ne suis pas pucelle que je lui répondis."

Au Chant De L'Alouette / Spinning Jenny

The anarchic side of traditional music. Politics, hostility, rites & riots. Probably some drinking, sex, death & travelling life too.

As guitarist with RSVP Bhangra and The Malarchy Band, Kris has played countless major festivals across Britain and Europe, including Glastonbury & Womad.

Now he returns to his love of traditional song, drawing on a lifetime spent travelling the secret world of the waterways, green lanes & old byways of England. With tenor guitar and banjo accompaniment, this is fireside folk done right.

Whistling Treason

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