Matachin (album)

Matachin
Studio album by Bellowhead
Released	2008
Genre	English folk
Length	51:57
Label	Navigator Records
Bellowhead chronology
Burlesque (2006) Matachin (2008) Hedonism (2010)

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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

• 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

1. Matachin sleeve notes
2. "Bellowhead". Bellowhead. Retrieved 2012-03-01.