India Electric Co & The Girl I Left Behind Me

India Electric Co & The Girl I Left Behind Me

folking have featured India Electric Co. in the past in our tour news section and I recall being impressed at the time reading, that a band that I had never heard of before, was supporting Midge Ure on tour. However, that thought was soon replaced by the million of other things that go on in my folking head, so it wasn’t until I recently when I bumped into Chris Puxley (sound-man extraordinaire) that I was reminded of them.

Jane Brace, their PR wonder-woman, picked up on this and immediately sent me through a copy of the album. Now, with all the stuff we get through at folking, its rare that a CD stays playing in my car on constant repeat. In fact there are two songs on this album that have become instant ear-worms and like some drug infused fix, I’m unable presently, to get through a day without hearing “Beirut” or “My friends are rich”.

Cole Stacey and Joseph O’Keefe, the brains behind this enterprise have done something really special here, and in my opinion, its hats off to them for coming up with a collection of music that’s both original and forward thinking. I think BBC 6 presenter Tom Robinson pretty much nailed it by describing them as  “Folk teleported to the future”.

The styles of music jump from Latin American, Eastern European and African as gypsy jazz rubs shoulders with lively Irish reels with arrangements fresh and varied.

Its definitely an album to check out and in my book a contender for an award or two next year!

Darren Beech

Here is one of the ear-worms – ‘Beirut’ (audio only):

Artists’ website: http://indiaelectricco.com