SHOVEL DANCE COLLECTIVE - The Shovel Dance LP Photobook perhaps the best thing about

perhaps the best thing about the album isn't what it's supposed to sound like

She experienced the 1995 Kobe earthquake at age 7

the A-side consists mainly of piano recordings made while on break from classical music rehearsals in school

with the line-up including Yann Gourdon

The challenge of recording a church organ meant a life's dream coming true and very much shaped the whole sound of the record

SHOVEL DANCE COLLECTIVE - The Shovel Dance LP Photobook perhaps the best thing aboutThe Shovel Dance is the most powerful release to date from nine piece folk group Shovel Dance Collective, bringing studio fidelity and trickery to the rich arrangements and soaring vocals of their concerts. Their new album revolves around the groups interplay and close listening, no matter how many members of the band play on a given song or how many instruments feature (there are twenty five instruments and eight voices). With production by Mike