Magazine Sixty Music Review with The Silent Harvest Volume Two

Greg Fenton reviews The Silent Harvest Volume Two – Folk Police Recordings

We can safely say that summer has arrived, bringing with it days of lazy haze and dreams of air conditioning. Thankfully, there is something innately and deeply satisfying about this collection of music inspired by the late-sixties album by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, The Long Harvest. I guess, to put it plainly, it’s about the notion of musical communication whispered through guitars, sound effects, and heartstrings pulling at a folk-inspired past. It speaks through voices and a passionate engagement with the uplifting and moodier recesses, transmitted through sound. But at its core, it is about the nature of music’s energy itself, especially after listening to the bland efforts of functional dancefloor music; this feels all the more exciting, with no idea what you’re going to hear next. Yet, in a way, while it suggests a longer lineage hidden in tradition, the music is full of contemporary imagination, like a new discovery, a twist in the zeitgeist.

This beautiful collection of finely tuned sounds is a delight to the ears, composed of some nineteen pieces of music, which can be easily accessed through the sheer joys of headphones or the wide-open spaces of stereo igniting the airwaves in between us. Tune in, plug in and experience all in one go.

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Folk Police Recordings