zth, acc, *1949 GB
Folk and Rock
English musician, zither-player and multi-instrumentalist, heavily influenced by traditional Finnish, Scots Gaelic and North Iberian musics. He has several productive and successful live-performing alliances, all ongoing, including with long-time collaborator Ian Blake, with Armenian duduk player Tigran Aleksanyan, and with Canada-based Chinese pipa and gu-cheng virtuoso Liu Fang and Vietnamese dan bau master Pham Duc Thanh. He and the musicians on his 9th solo album, "The Unbroken Surface of Snow" (Cloud Valley, 2011) – Armenian duduk master Tigran Aleksanyan, multi-instrumentalist Ian Blake and Finnish singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio – became the band SANS, releasing "SANS LIve" in 2014, and, with the line-up expanded by the addition of Sanna's daughter Erika Hammarberg as co-vocalist, in 2018 released the album "Kulku" (Cloud Valley, 2018) As a world music journalist Andrew Cronshaw writes features and reviews, particularly for fRoots magazine but also including the Nordic, Baltic and Portuguese chapters in The Rough Guide to World Music, etc. Apart from his own albums, he has produced, and often engineered, albums by June Tabor, Silly Sisters, Bill Caddick, Zumzeaux, Brendan Power, Salamakannel, Nikolai Blad and others, and produced the mixes of Flook's Flatfish and of Hannu Saha's Mahla. Session work includes playing on albums by Hue & Cry, Scott Walker, Suede, Natacha Atlas, Martin Simpson, Pascal Gaigne, B.J.Cole and Ute Lemper, on film soundtracks including Outlaw King, Tolkien, GI Jane, and others. The song 'Zitherbell', which he co-wrote and performs with Natacha Atlas on her album 'Foretold in the Language of Dreams', appears in Jonathan Demme's film 'The Truth About Charlie'.
Sans |
Chris Rohmann |
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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The Unbroken Surface Of Snow | Andrew Cronshaw | 2011 | Album |
Ochre | Andrew Cronshaw | 2004 | Album |
On The Shoulders Of The Great Bear | Andrew Cronshaw | 2000 | Album |
The Language Of Snakes | Andrew Cronshaw | 1993 | Album |
The Andrew Cronshaw CD | Andrew Cronshaw | 1989 | Album |
Till The Beasts' Returning | Andrew Cronshaw | 1988 | Album |
The Great Dark Water | Andrew Cronshaw | 1982 | Album |
Wade In The Flood | Andrew Cronshaw | 1978 | Album |
Cloud Valley | Andrew Cronshaw | 1977 | Single |
Earthed In Cloud Valley | Andrew Cronshaw | 1977 | Album |
Times And Traditions For Dulcimer | Roger Nicholson, Jake Walton, Andrew Cronshaw | 1976 | Album |
A Is For Andrew, Z Is For Zither | Andrew Cronshaw | 1974 | Album |
Eberhard Cronshagen DE *1913 |
Robert Cronsioe org SE *1971 Reggae and Rock |
Fredrik Cronsten b, eb |
The Dacrons |
Roger LaVern & The Microns Pop |
Sarah Cronshaw |
The Psycrons |
Michael Cronström b |
Chris Cronsell tr |
Lars Cronsioe voc, b |
Martin Cronström tr, fh SE Jazz |
Anna-Lisa Cronström |
Necrons JP |
Henrik Cronsström voc FI |