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Moving Pieces of the Sea

by The Crooked Fiddle Band

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Yanir
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Yanir The second album from The Crooked Fiddle Band lives up to the high standard set by the first album. I'm glad I supported the Pozible campaign to get this album out. It's great to have a band like this in Sydney. Favorite track: Neptune's Fool.
Andrea Rossi
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Andrea Rossi I've loved this band since when Overgrown Tales came out, but here we are on totally another level: great melodies, furious runs and wonderful ballads, perfect singing. A very welcome evolution for this band. Favorite track: The Vanishing Shapes of a Better World.
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DJHDD The new Crooked Fiddle band album is a more mature sound than previous work. Although these guys could rock it out with the best this time they are showing a great depth of melody via the folktronica genre. Favorite track: The Vanishing Shapes of a Better World.
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Things crawl in ditches While the bitter brewing witches Plot potions of havoc and love A miasma of midges A gravedigger itches A lantern, a fur trimmed glove Down in the hollow Where they buried Tom Swallow A serpent writhes in wet earth While the creak of the gallows All moonlit and sallow Gives verse to the scarecrow’s mad mirth There’s a dirge being played Mist-muffled and vague Called the Deepwater Drownings by some It’s a low mournful sound For they never were found Not a single one Whippoorwill’s whisper the day Beat the drum The pipes will themselves play The Deepwater Drownings Fade away Whippoorwill’s whisper the day Beat the drum The pipes will themselves play The Deepwater Drownings Fade away
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Moving Pieces of the Sea is the second album by The Crooked Fiddle Band. Written on tour around the fjords of Norway and lakes of Finland, the album takes the band's reputation for intense, ecstatic energy and imbues it with a crystalline, cinematic expansiveness.

The album and opening track take their name from a letter by French ocean pioneer Jacques Cousteau to his son:

'Twilight was turning to sheer darkness, and our structures became eerie shadows. The fish were just moving pieces of the sea. I smiled because I knew...you would always seek after the vanishing shapes of a better world"
- Jaques Cousteau, 1963

credits

released October 1, 2013

All tracks written by The Crooked Fiddle Band © 2013.

Jess Randall: violin, nyckelharpa, vocals.
Gordon Wallace: guitar, guizouki, cittern, vocals.
Mark Stevens: double bass, bass marimba on ‘Kilimanjaro’.
Joe Gould: Drum kit, udu, bass drum, kalimba, marimba, vocals.

Vocals on Track 2: Jess and Gordon
Vocals on Track 5: Joe
Vocals on Track 6: Gordon
Vocals on Track 7: Jess and Joe

Recorded to 24 track tape at Electrical Audio, Chicago, January 17-31, 2013.

Engineered and mixed by Steve Albini with additional recording by Greg Norman and Jon San Paolo @ Electrical Audio

Mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering, California.

Russell Rolen: Cello on Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6 & 7.

Gordon plays Gilet Guitars, Fylde Citterns and Wheeler Custom Lutherie Guizoukis.
Jess’ nyckelharpa is made by Lennart Lovdin.

Cover art photo shoot:
Photography: Yanni Kronenberg
Miniatures Director: Jack McGrath/Conceptavision
Model: Leila Eqbal with arms by Emily Constantine, Laura Wilson and Mirabai Peart.
Make-up: Amanda Michelle Le Couteur
Photo Shoot helpers: Jack McGrath, Tawfik Elgazzar, Greg Le Couteur, Dave Carr, Sarah Steel and The Crooked Fiddle Band.

Model Makers: Jack McGrath, Tawfik Elgazzar, Greg Le Couteur, Dave Carr, Sarah Steel, Lynne Trunzo, Elizabeth Carr, Dan Stanley Freeman, Penny Coleman, Chris Hayden, Daisy De Windt, Vivien Jeffery and The Crooked Fiddle Band.

Graphic design : Cathy Kirkpatrick.

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