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​Windborne (from the album Recollections/Revolutions available on Wan’dring Feet Records)
While harmony and singing voices are certainly a huge part of Windborne, the four members display the depth and breadth of a vocal group. Their recent release, Recollections/Revolutions, spotlights the rhythms, the nuanced emotions, and the passionate accents of Windborne. The album goes beyond a track listing of vocal cuts, presenting its songs in pure forms, sourcing origins by adding a desperate tone of defiance to “Bread and Roses”, playfully recalling simple pleasures in “Lazy John”, following the haunted echo of marching feet into Harlan Country mines for “Which Side Are You On”, and laying vocals over the flutter of notes in “Blackest Crow”.
The four singers of Windborne, Lynn Mahoney Rowan, Will Thomas Rowan, Lauren Breunig, and Jeremy Carter-Gordon, grew up immersed in the traditional music and dance communities of New England, discovering and developing a love for world Folk music while still in their teens. Recollections/Revolutions is a double set of songs, both albums featuring cuts that celebrate life hereafter with spirituals (“Ain’t No Grave”) joining fellow humans on their journey (“Going Across the Sea”), standing proud on picket lines (“Fire in the Hole”), and lighting the torches of rebellion (“Song on the Times”). Taking tunes from Windborne’s native American soil, Recollections/Revolutions curates traditional songs from Corsica, the Republic of Georgia, Bulgaria, Quebec, and Basque country. Windborne take on the role of soldier in Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”, find young love with “Rollin’ in My Sweet Baby’s Arms”, and hold tight to this mortal coil in “Gimme Just a Little More Time”, their voices giving flesh and blood to the long line of humans and their history in the music
Listen and buy the music of Windborne from AMAZON
 
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