Silent June
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| Studio album by O'Hooley & Tidow | ||||
| Released | 22 February 2010 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | August – November 2009 at Golcar, Huddersfield (except for the string quartet, which was recorded at Hill Top Studios, Leeds) | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | No Masters | |||
| Producer | Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow | |||
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| Financial Times |   |
Silent June is the first album by O'Hooley & Tidow. Recorded between August and November 2009 at their home in Golcar, Huddersfield, it was released on 22 February 2010 on the No Masters label, distributed by Proper Records.
The album, which was mixed and mastered by Neil Ferguson of Chumbawamba, also featured Anna Esslemont and Cormac Byrne (both from Uiscedwr), Jackie Oates and the Solo Players string quartet.
It was critically acclaimed and received a four-starred review in the Financial Times.
The title of the album refers to the words of one of the songs on the album, "Que Sera", about the execution during World War I of the British nurse Edith Cavell. Belinda O'Hooley says that "Que Sera" seeks to portray "the horrors of war from a woman's perspective" and "explores the feelings, sounds and senses that Edith Cavell may have felt as she stood before a firing squad".
The album also includes a version of the song "Spancil Hill" and a new song "Too Old to Dream" incorporating a segment of "When I Grow Too Old to Dream", a popular song with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, published in 1934 and recorded by many artists, most notably Gracie Fields.
Colin Irwin, for BBC Music, said: "Too Old to Dream is a sentimental, yet still intensely moving picture of faded memories, melded into the old Sigmund Romberg/Oscar Hammerstein II standard and a recording of a Dewsbury care home resident....One More Xmas might also one day be recognised as a classic. Thoughtful, provocative, yearning and deeply poignant, it’ll resonate with anyone who's lost a loved one or wilts under grown-up responsibilities, and may just be the best seasonal song written since Fairytale of New York."
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