Matachin (album)

2008 studio album by Bellowhead

Matachin

Studio album by

Bellowhead

Released| 22 September 2008
Genre| English folk
Length| 51:57
Label| Navigator Records
Bellowhead chronology
| Burlesque
(2006)  | Matachin
(2008)  | Hedonism
(2010)

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Matachin is the second album by Bellowhead, released on 22 September 2008. Its title refers, to 'An old dance with swords, masks and bucklers; a sword dance' that may have influenced the Cotswold Morris dance.[1] It has been described as "...a magnificently murky and rum-sodden collection of 11 traditional and original songs from the 11 piece band who defy easy categorisation".[2]

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Fakenham Fair"| Trad arr. Boden| 4:59
2.| "Roll Her Down The Bay"| Trad arr. Flood| 3:27
3.| "Vignette I"| Trad arr. Boden, Sweeney, MacShane| 0:40
4.| "I Drew My Ship Across The Harbour"| Trad arr. Jon Boden| 4:15
5.| "Kafoozalum/The Priest's Miss"| Trad arr. Boden| 5:31
6.| "Cholera Camp"| Rudyard Kipling / Peter Bellamy| 6:08
7.| "Vignette II"| Trad arr. Boden| 0:45
8.| "Whiskey Is The Life Of Man"| Trad arr. Boden| 3:22
9.| "Spectre Review"| Words: Zedlitz; Music: trad arr. Flood| 5:23
10.| "Widow's Curse"| Trad arr. Flood| 5:33
11.| "Bruton Town"| Trad arr. Thurgur| 5:33
12.| "Trip to Bucharest / The Flight of the Folk Mutants Parts 1 & 2"| McShane/Boden| 5:33
13.| "Vignette III"| Trad arr. Flood| 0:48
Total length:| 51:57

## Personnel

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* Jon Boden \- lead vocals, fiddle, duet-concertina
* Benji Kirkpatrick - guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, banjo
* John Spiers \- melodeon, Anglo-concertina
* Andy Mellon - trumpet
* Justin Thurgur \- trombone
* Brendan Kelly - saxophone, bass clarinet
* Gideon Juckes - Helicon
* Pete Flood - percussion
* Rachael McShane - cello, fiddle
* Paul Sartin - fiddle, oboe
* Sam Sweeney \- fiddle, pipes

## References

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1. ^ Matachin sleeve notes
2. ^ "Bellowhead". Bellowhead. Archived from the original on 23 December 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2012.

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Bellowhead

* Jon Boden
* John Spiers
* Benji Kirkpatrick
* Paul Sartin
* Rachel McShane
* Sam Sweeney
* Pete Flood
* Andy Mellon
* Justin Thurgur
* Brendan Kelly
* Ed Neuhauser
* Giles Lewin
* Gideon Juckes

Albums|

* Burlesque
* Matachin
* Hedonism
* Broadside
* Revival
* E.P.Onymous
* Umbrellowhead

DVDs|

* Live at Shepherds Bush Empire
* Hedonism Live

Related articles|

* Spiers and Boden
* Hannah James and Sam Sweeney
* Faustus
* Belshazzar's Feast

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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