Offa Rex - The Old Churchyard
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2017
- Offa Rex -- the new project from Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists -- performs "The Old Churchyard," from their 2017 debut album, The Queen of Hearts. Get the album now: offarex.lnk.to/TheQueenOfHearts
Video directed by Alex Chaloff 
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The best performance of a song I have EVER heard. How did they get to this level of sound?
I can't help but cry at this song, it's so beautiful and makes me feel sad in a healing way about departed friends.
I remember the first moment I heard Olivia Chaney: over 2 years ago i was grabbing a beer and pizza near the "Grande" tent at Woodford Folk Festival when her voice raised the trees flanking the stage and now she's gone and made one of my favourite bands her backing band. An unstoppable force of nature here. Take my money and my land, have it all.
she was unknown to me until I saw The Decemberists in April in Brooklyn. I did VIP so we got to hear the whole soundcheck while waiting to go in. Suddenly I hear harpsichord and that fucking VOICE and all of us were standing around jaws dropped going WHAT IS THIS OH MY GOD!!!! I'm now a big Olivia fan as well.
A friend sent me some tracks from 'The Queen of Hearts' knowing I was a big fan of Steeleye Span back in the day. My reaction was that Olivia Chaney had to be the granddaughter, somehow, of both Maddy Prior and Sandy Denny. She is nothing short of brilliant with an amazing voice. Sweet and beautiful but with a touch of knowing irony in her delivery. And she is an amazing musician and arranger as well. I got her solo album 'The Longest River' and am enjoying familiarizing myself with it. Not material that you can fully absorb in one listen which I appreciate. Give me some depth, something I can sink my teeth into. She has a new release coming out on Nonesuch and I am salivating for it now.
I saw her play in a small venue from about 10 feet away. It doesn't get much better!
Never heard this group before, but my heart knows this music, very well, very deeply. Thank you.
It isn't really a group as such... It is a project which teams Olivia Chaney, who mostly works solo, with the superb Oregon based band The Decemberists.. If you want to hear an awesome folk opera just check out the album Hazards Of Love by The Decemberists - it is extraordinary.
Am imagining hearing the soulful fiddle of Dave Swarbrick in this one. This is so beautiful.
While searching for pictures of old church yards I found this song. Now I feel stupid for not having found them sooner. Such a beautiful melody and words! Oh the words pull at the heart strings. Like reminding me of memories I've never had of running through fields of of fresh dew droplets.
3 knock-outs in a row. Either ya'll are tremendously good at picking teaser tracks or this is shaping up to be the album of the century.
have you heard Sheepcrook and Black Dog yet? Seriously every track is better than the last
Oh god. This song just ascends sadness, happiness, so many emotions; and my mind makes sense of it slightly different every time, and it hits me somewhere deep, melancholy, dead, and so alive. Oh god.. Here come the tears, they always come..
Agree!
But listen also to the version by The Watersons.
Another beautifully-formed gem. I love the interplay between the electric guitar and the harmonium...
This song gives me hope to keep waiting for the second coming of Jesus
currently got this on repeat. Amazing tune.
Finally! new folk blood I'm so impatient for their album!
"to breathe kind words to a broken heart"
That's the bit that got me. It seems as though they stay on the A chord an extra couple of beats. Maybe even an Em7 or something. It seems such an un-'folk' thing to do and raises the song an extra notch for me. Gorgeous.
This is remarkable
I've really come to look forward to these. I love folk!
This is the music we need today. Music that sounds beautiful, yet sends a chill through your body.
Absolutely Stunning!!! What a beautiful voice you have Olivia Chaney and what a brilliant "backing band"!
Everybody needs to have this album. This might just be the album that should have started the British folk /rock genre! I know,I know sounds backwards! .....but
Those last two verses are the BEST!!!
How excellent! Especially that drop just after 1:10. Great arrangement folks.
hi Offa Rex. I had never heard of you. was reseraching pro-union songs during co-vid quarantine now in 2020...and found ur cover of Blackleg Miner. Thank you for this sweet relief.
Tremendous.
Lovely...
That’s unbelievable!!! 😮😮😮 Amazing!!!
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love."
Do Not Pity the Dead, Harry
Hands within hair. Gasps.
Limbs, sprawled or
configured in coarse salt
doughiness, twisted. Too many
muted tones of light
filter through haze to be certain
now if that tongue inside
that place was yours, or
yours, or yours,
any of all the unfilable
faces poking from the
shadows of past fires.
Does she recall
that time going through
the car wash? Son, that's
a lot of history
to sort through. Does she
remember that one night,
in the storm? So many storms, try
another keyword to assist
in the search, perhaps
'October,' 'nature trail,'
'after the show,' or 'before you
beat her face in,' for a quorum.
She may then be able
to piecefully concoct
a memory from scratch
just for you, if she's in a generous
mood, to say, oh yes, I do
remember that now.
But really, truthfully, she does not.
And she doesn't want to,
doesn't need to rent the space
in the wasteland of her head
on intact experiences, complete
with names, dates, addresses,
current world news, what was eaten
or said or not said. The shapeless
feel of the thing is all the memento
she takes with her, because
who really wants to be haunted
by more ghosts than the ones
we already have to carry?
this is so beautiful, everything about this is extraordinary
I love this! I can't get enough of musicians doing superb performances of music that no one else does. A brand new sound for me!
Re-affirming of life. The best I have heard in many years.
The best piece of music I have ever heard - and I've heard a lot...
Beautiful voice. I also love an earlier rendition of this traditional song by The Watersons
Im not one to listen to song on repeat, but I can't stop listening to this one. It is so fucking beautiful.
Andrea Pisani same 😆
Just saw them Wednesday and seeing them again tomorrow at Newport Folk. They're IN.CRED!
Listen to Offa Rex's rendition of 'Willie O' Winsbury'. That one really got me hooked.
Mark Scott I love the version by Pentangle.
We've got to get another album!
This is brilliant. Simply stunning ...
Wow.
what an incredible rendition! Love the experimentation going on here, more please
What a song. Those lyrics. Also beautifully covered by the Wailin' Jennys.
The teles great ! What a track ? it melts the heart
Wow, this song and performance are so emotionally charged and well executed. It’s a joy to hear, despite the melancholic sound!
Love this one.
Magnificent.
I first heard her with "Waxwing", an amazing song. She just played an amazing solo set in NYC - a fantastic talent!
Stunning tune. Love it. Jack Rabid just played this on his weekly radio show and it stopped me in my tracks. All the best.
sounds like it'd be great played on bagpipes
loooooovely :D i love what i hear. hope i get to see them live sometime soon.
Wonderfull voice !!!
Thanks from Hessen/Germany :)
I look forward to the resurrection and the life everlasting
Amen.
I'm really loving this band!! Also glad to see Ron Swanson's playing gutair now 😂😂
He picked that guitar up at Food 'n Stuff.
'Picked up'? That can be interpreted at least three ways; glad he did though.
Saw them live two nights ago - they sound even better live. Sadly it was their second and last theater performance - they'll be doing three or four more festival spots and apparently that's it.
Excellent stuff. More please!
I love this
More evidence that popular music has NEVER been better then it is right now!! The exquisite genius and artistry of so many mostly obscure and unappreciated singer-songwriters, simply takes my breadth away..........Go and find them, they are out there......start with Julie Byrne, Johanna Warren, Sam Baker, Jeff Pianki, Gareth Dickson, Will Cookson, Samantha Crain to name but a few..............Chaney's album from 2015 "The Longest River" is timeless........
Olivia Chaney is a goddess.
Merveilleuse chanson ! / Wonderful song !
(sorry for my English, I'm French ; I will let my commentary in French & English simultaneously)
Je viens juste de découvrir via Folk Alley radio, et je ne peux m'empêcher de l'écouter en boucle. / I just discovered it via Folk Alley radio, and I can't stop listening it on repeat !
Elle est autant épique que douce, il y a tellement d'harmonie dans l'équilibre entre la voix et tous les instruments... Chacun joue sa partie et est indispensable, et on entend parfaitement tous les instruments / It is as sweet as epic, there is so much harmony in the balance between the voice and all the instruments... Every one plays his part and is indispensable, and we perfectly hear every insrument
Elle donne envie de partir à l'aventure ou conquérir le monde, et en même temps de se poser pour profiter d'un moment de soleil, de préférence avec sa bien-aimée, bref, elle donne envie de vivre ! Doucement, intensément, pleinement, et de donner du sens à cette vie ! / It makes you feel like going for adventure, or conquer the world, and at the same time just sit to enjoy a moment of sun (if possible with the beloved one) ... Well it makes you feel like living ! Sweetly, intensely, fully, and give sense to this life
❤️
2023 I hope everyone is doing okay…
Jefferson Hamer & Eamon O'Leary do a lovely version of this on their Murphy Beds album
holy folk!
is it me or does this label feature genius songwriters that will most likely be remembered long after the popular pop pablum of today?
Beautiful song. Were I mixing it, I would pot down the Telecaster and bring up the rhythm section. Nonetheless, great.
She even sounds like Sandy Denny
Joseph Reising 😲 omg! What if she's like related to her?!!!! 😆😆😆
She wish to sing like Sandy Denny. But she's good anyway
I swear she must be the granddaughter of Sandy Denny and Maddy Prior.
Check out Pauline Scanlon's version of this moving hymn.
Does someone have some information about the song?
Friends
Do not weep for me
For I am free
What instrument is she playing?
It's an Indian harmonium - normally used within Indian classical music
@@oblux Is it true that 'harmonium' is the Hindi word for 'squeeze box' 😂
I like this version but the Watersons version has a more revivalist feel to it.
this is beautiful but that bow hold is aa
Nice version of a great song but not as good as Pauline Scanlon. Check her out. Far superior in my opinion.
The guitar is too loud.
Too much guitar.