The Children
Play

(TP010, 1999)

Sample songs (updated 22/04/08):

People Rose / Get to the Feeling

“The Children perform a hybrid made up from elements of rock, folk and jazz. The overall sound and musicianship is understated rather than the usual overblown vapidness of other ‘mix and match’ projects. This is aided by the semi-acoustic nature of much of the music here which helps keep the album intimate. … Play is such a listenable album that picking out selected tracks is difficult, though ‘Get Shaggin’’ and ‘Boychild’ stick in the mind.”

John M. Peters, New Hope International Review.
The whole review can be read at http://www.nhi.clara.net/cc0061.htm

The musicians:
(Some of them are featured in The Improvised Vision, a gallery of drawings of musicians in performance. A click on the word portrait provides the link. John Gibbens and Armorel Weston have their own biographical pages.)

Alfredo Genovesi guitar & effects (portrait)
Anne Wood violin
Annie Whitehead trombone, on tracks 2 and 7 (portrait)
Arike harmonica
Armorel Weston voice (biog)
Bertie Fritsch percussion
Frank Hall drums
Gail Brand trombone
Jason Rogers double bass & fretless bass guitar
John Gibbens guitar & voice (biog)
Julia Doyle double bass (portrait)
Veryan Weston piano (portrait)

More about The Children

The lyrics:

1. M.I.A. (Meanwhile I'm Alive)
2. Get Shaggin’
3. Up Shook of All
4. Boychild
5. Stargazer Shoes
6. Deya Nights
7. People Rose
8. Get to the Feeling
9. Soul Hole
10. Next Millennium
11. Feel Free

There is a gallery of The Children at work on Play.

Here are some other websites which relate to the musicians on Play. For the time being these are not reciprocal links, so please bookmark this page before you go.

Gail Brand: http://www.gailbrand.co.uk/

Julia Doyle: http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/mus/musd/Doyle,%20Julia.htm

Bertie Fritsch: http://www.fritschsound.co.uk

Veryan Weston: http://www.musicnow.co.uk/composers/weston.html

Annie Whitehead: http://www.jazzaction.co.uk/whitehead.html

Anne Wood: http://www.starfishdesigns.co.uk/WOOD.HTM

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