Eliza Carthy, Dreams of Breathing Underwater, CD Topic Records 2008 - TSCD571 

Innovative and extraordinary album! Eliza achieves a remarkable artistic maturity. Great credit goes to fellow in adventure Ben Ivitsky, producer and sound engineer. Beautiful are also the graphic design and the images of the booklet, edited by John Haxby. Really appreciated is Barnaby Stradling bass on "Follow the Dollar".

Album innovativo, straordinario, Eliza raggiunge una notevole maturità artistica. Gran merito va al compagno d'avventura Ben Ivitsky produttore e ingegnere del suono. Bello anche il progetto grafico e le immagini del booklet, curate da John Haxby. Davvero apprezzabile il basso di Barnaby Stradling su "Follow the dollar".

Tracks: Follow the Dollar (3.40) - Two Tears (4.14) - Rows of Angels (3.12) - Rosalie (3.43) - Mr Magnifico (6.06) - Like I Care (Wings) (3.28) - Lavenders (4.19) - Little Bigman (4.58) - Simple Things (4.19) - Hug You Like a Mountain (4.30) - Oranges & Seasalt (3.34)

Musicians: Eliza Carthy, vocals [1-11], tenor guitar [1], violin [2, 5, 11], octave violin [3], ukulele [5, 11], one-row melodeon [8], piano [9] - Ben Ivitsky, 5-string viola [2, 5], guitar [3, 5, 9], noises [3, 9], Stylaphone [3], triangle [3], acoustic guitar [4], electric guitar [4, 6], vocals [5, 8, 11], viola [7], percussion [7], rowing [8], cajon/Moog [10], trombone [11] - Barnaby Stradling, bass guitar [1, 6-7, 10] - Willy Molleson, drums [1, 3-4, 6, 9-11], drumtrak machine [3], cajon/Moog [10], vocals [1, 5, 8, 11] - Barney Strachan, organetta [2], vocals [3-4], drumtrak machine [3] - John Spiers, melodeon [2], vocals [8] - Jon Boden, violin [2], concertina [3], vocals [8], banjo [8] - Conrad Ivitsky, double bass [2, 11], vocals [11] - Donald Hay, drums [2, 5], percussion [2, 7] - Tim Matthew, narrator [5], violin [5] - Toby Shippey, trumpet [5] - Martin Green, piano accordion [5-6], keyboard [10] - Marcus Britton, trumpet [5-6, 11] . Tim Lane, trombone [5-6, 11] - Olivia Furness, tenor saxophone [5-6, 11] - Greg Ivitsky, alto saxophone [5-6, 11], vocals [11] - Joe Peat, bass guitar [5] - Paul Sartin, oboe [3] - Gideon Juckes, tuba [8] - Micky Marr, bass guitar [3] - David “Demus” Donnelly, bass guitar [9]