Communion

By Tim • February 3, 2010 • Mixtapes, News & Leaks

What is there to say about Communion? It started off in 2006 as a club night and community at the Notting Hill Arts Club, founded by Ben Lovett (Mumford and Sons), Kevin Jones (Cherbourg) and producer Ian Grimble. But my what an impression it has left as it has provided a platform for the newest bands on London’s circuit. The night has seen the likes of Noah and the Whale, Laura Marling, Mumford and Sons, JJ Pistolet and Peggy Sue grace the stage and has become closely associated with the recent resurgence of folk in the capital.

They have since taken this fantastic live event around the UK, which is well worth catching if you can, but now have also curated a compilation album of some highlights of this folk scene they have helped nurture. We’ve been featuring a handful of these bands here on TBW over the past couple of years from Johnny Flynn to Jay Jay Pistolet, but Communion have created a community and this is the recorded product of that. And it’s amazing.

You can pre-order the double disc vinyl now before its official release date on 01/03 but the MP3s get sent over straight away – time to get on it me thinks. If you weren’t excited enough – here’s the tracklist:

Chapter 1

Johnny Flynn – In The Honour Of Industry

Jay Jay Pistolet – Vintage Red

Marcus Foster – Circle In A Square

Stokes, William feat. Marcus Mumford – Zion

Pete Roe – Bellina

Chapter 2

Broadcast 2000 – That Sinking Feeling

Benjamin Francis Leftwich – More Than Letters

Jeremy Warmsley – How We Became

Brendan Campbell – Maudlin Reverie

Alessi’s Ark – Hands In The Sink

Chapter 3

Mumford and Sons – Sister

Matthew and the Atlas – Deadwood

Alan Pownall – Take Me

Elena Tonra – Peter

Beans On Toast – Things To Do Before You’re Thirty

Chapter 4

Kurran and the Wolfnotes – Pounding

Peggy Sue – February Snow

Andrew Davie – Lie Down In The Blood

Rachel Sermanni – My Friend Fire

Jesse Quin and the Mets – The Sculptor and the Stone

Matt Corby – Light Home

And a sampling of MP3s from some of the artists that have played at Communion over the years:

Noah and the Whale – Instrumental III
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(NATW – not on this record but mainstays of the London folk scene and Communion itself and are in are writing their new album as we speak in a converted Synagogue in East London! This track is taken from their film “First Days of Spring”)

Johnny Flynn – Drum
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(Johnny Flynn is playing live around the UK this month!)

Beans on Toast – The Country’s Gone to Shit
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(Beans on Toast is playing SXSW this year for you yanks!)

Kurran and the Wolfnotes – Here To Fill You In
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(KATW will be the main support for The Kissaway Trail on their upcoming UK tour!)

Marcus Foster – I Don’t Mind
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(Marcus Foster is back to London in March so get your tickets now!)