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The Seventh Wife Of Henry VIII  performed by  Kahimi Karie  (2000)
Composed by Momus
Arranged by Momus
From: Japan
Mood: Better than the recorded output of any of Henry's other wives
Recommended by jeanette [profile] on Tuesday 23rd March 2004

Always a marriage made in heaven: the voice of Karie, a J-pop queen with a whispery, heavily accented turn of phrase and the convoluted, utterly expressive lyrics of Momus.

She positions herself as Tudor successor to Catherine Parr and, although adopting a cavalier attitude to the facts of English history ("his first six wives had their heads chopped off" - er, no they didn't) the image of a vastly overweight and gout-ridden Henry playing Greensleeves on a lute to a waifish Japanese woman is charming.

Plenty of what I'm presuming are geniune Tudor instruments such as the Hand-Pumped Regal, Sackbutt and Dulcion, performed by the Dufay Collective.

from Journey To The Centre Of Me (Polydor POCH 1927), available on CD
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