Starkly beautiful and delicately arranged, The 13th Bedroom marks a powerful and welcome return for the duo. Traditional English folk singing at its best.
Sue Brown and Lorraine Irwing base their repertoire firmly in English traditional song, drawing from time to time on contemporary material and songs from other traditions. The Oxford-based duo began singing together in 1994, and their singing has been described as ‘perfection in timing and expressive melody’ and ‘a blend of voices to melt the heart of an iceberg’. Reviews have mentioned their ‘pleasingly angular harmonies’, ‘the variety of material and the inventiveness of the arrangements’ and ‘rich harmonies and warm, true voices’.
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