Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Bridget Hayden is best-known as a member of the Vibracathedral Orchestra, a collective founded in Leeds whose commitment to drone-based minimalism prioritised slowly shifting textures over melody. To the extent that the VCO were influenced by folk music at all, it was at the freakier end of the spectrum.So it is initially surprising to find Hayden embrace the full purity of the eight traditional songs on this album. Titled Cold Blows the Rain, it was recorded late at night in a fraternal lodge in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, the band spending the daytime making the most of a rare stretch of good weather. Hayden, who mostly played violin for the VCO, here sings and plays banjo, cello and a range of gruff analogue synthesisers. She is joined by The Apparitions: Sam Mcloughlin on harmonium and Dan Bridgewood-Hill on viola.Yet the emphasis on texture persists. Songs unfold in an echoing nocturnal drag like old 45s slowed down to 33s, the slightest adjustments of key in the harmonium drone registering with seismic significance, and the prickle of banjo on \u201cAre You Going To Leave Me?\u201d shining like a brief moment of sunlight.The tracklist, mostly learned from Hayden\u2019s mother, Anne, to whom the album is dedicated, includes many widely covered old warhorses. \u201cBlackwater Side\u201d stretches out expansively, Hayden relishing its semitonal shifts. The ghostliness of \u201cShe Moved Through The Fayre\u201d is here further unsettled by a nagging synth pulse throbbing away in the same register as her singing.Often an airy gallop, \u201cWhen I Was In My Prime\u201d here becomes a meditation on loss and the passing of time. This sense of abandonment persists on the Appalachian song \u201cRed Rocking Chair\u201d, where the keening singing melds with the slow-bowed strings, and on the closing \u201cThe Unquiet Grave\u201d, where the narrator\u2019s refusal to accept the death of a lover postpones eternal rest. \u201cMake yourself content, my love,\u201d she sings at the end of the song\u2019s eight stark minutes, \u201ctill God calls you away.\u201d\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Cold Blows the Rain\u2019 is released by Basin Rock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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