HUTCHINGS, ASHLEY - My Land Is Your Land

This intellectual and musical collaboration between Ashley Hutchings, formerly of Fairport Convention, and Ernesto De Pascale, an Italian musician, producer and broadcaster, is an album celebrating the union and musical collaboration of the two countries Italy and Britain. There's a range of vocalists, musicians and archive recordings in its tapestry of modern folk-rock. This project has been several years in gestation, and the opening track, A Patch Of Earth, sets the lyrical tone with its compare-and-contrast approach to the two landscapes of Albion Britain and the Tuscan Hills. It also has two lead vocalists, one British and one Italian, which eases us into the sharing-around the leads that occurs throughout the album and introduces the light and shade that we might expect from a cross-cultural musical collaboration. Record Label: Talking Elephant Style: Rock