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Each album has its own page, with links to lyrics,
audio clips and sample tracks: just click the cover or the title
"Whence grace, through which the heart can understand” (Wordsworth)
In Memory of Grace
is The Children’s new album of illuminated gospel music,
an extraordinary double CD, 28 tracks deep.Audio clip: And Dust Be Raised
In Memory of Grace (single CD)
2011
A selection of 12 songs from the 28-track double CD set.
Audio clip: See Me in the Good Place
Equals
2007
Ten songs of protest and unrest. Musical solidarity from Terry Edwards, Kath Tait and Niall McDevitt among others.
Audio clip: Democracy
Love Walk
2003
You’re on the outward journey on an inward road… 12 songs of quest and discovery, with lyrical piano by Olivia Chaney and upright bass by Jasper Høiby, plus saxophone by Charles A. Fagan, cello by Becky Truscott.
Audio clip: Moment Ago
Songs from the Red Notebook
2003
Fourteen songs written in the red notebook in the last century, about 20 years before they were recorded.
Audio clip: Like Love
Rockingham Street
2002
The Children present New Sounds in City and Western. Twelve urban love songs.
Audio clip: Busker Noise
Come Aboard
2002
Thirteen shots of Thames blues and cosmopolitan folk.
Audio clip: Blues and Stout
Play
1999
The Children’s debut album, featuring Annie Whitehead, Anne Wood, Gail Brand, Alfredo Genovesi and other great improvisers.
Audio clip: Get Shaggin’
The Mind Shop
Treetop Songs
Improvised music and vocalised poetry from The Mind Shop. Mesmerism on a small shiny disc.
Sample track: My Bonie Bell
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