(2019) The Wedding Present - The Complete Ukrainian John Peel Sessions





Review:

Legendary band The Wedding Present release their ‘The Complete The Ukrainians BBC – John Peel Sessions’. The release include all three John Peel sessions re-mastered for the first time along with booklet + new sleeve artwork designed by original artist Jonathan Hitchen. With regular singer David Gedge relegated to guitar and backing vocals, Liggins takes centre-stage on vocal duties. His sonorous Ukrainian vocals on ‘Cherez Richku, Cherez Hai’ combined with Solowka’s edgy guitar make for an exciting mix of Ukrainian and Western musical styles, and is something of a reference point for a genre of music which now exists in Ukrainian communities around the World. The band still write and record their own style of Ukrainian music today, releasing eight studio albums and have toured all over Europe and in North America. The Wedding Present continued with David Gedge at the helm and they have gone on to become one of the UK’s most longstanding and much-loved indie bands, with eighteen British top fourty hit singles to their name. Not bad for a group that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. The band released their ninth studio album, ‘Going, Going…’, to critical acclaim in 2016.











Tracklist:

01. Davni Chasy (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

02. Cherez Richku, Cherez Hai (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

03. Svitit Misyats (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

04. Tiutiunnyk (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

05. Zadumav Didochok (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

06. Yikhav Kozak Za Dunai (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

07. Hude Dnipro Hude (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

08. Katrusya (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

09. Vasya Vasilyok (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

10. Sertsem i Dusheyu (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

11. Zavtra (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)

12. Verkhovyno (John Peel Session – 2019 Re-master)





Summary:

Country: UK

Genre: indie-folk, indie-rock





Media Report:

Source                           : CD

Format                           : FLAC

Format/Info                      : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

Bit rate mode                    : Variable

Bit rate                         : ~ 876-958 Kbps

Channel(s)                       : 2 channels

Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz

Bit depth                        : 16 bits