Sunday, 17 November 2013

VARIOUS ARTISTS - THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS




















Important Records 2008

01. Chieko Mori - Spiral Wave
02. James Blackshaw - The Broken Hourglass
03. Helena Espvall -Home Of Shadows And Whirlwinds
04. Jozef Van Wissem - The Mirror Of Eternal Light
05. Chieko Mori - Tokyo Light

Five experimental and baroque solo pieces, curated and compiled by James Blackshaw. Artwork by Hanna Tuulikki.

ROBBIE BASHO - RAINBOW THUNDER : SONGS OF THE AMERICAN WEST




















Silver Label Recordings 1981

01. Redwood Ramble
02. Crashing Thunder
03. Moving Up A'Ways
04. Legend Of Mount Tamalpias
05. Rainbow Thunder
06. The Pathfinder
07. The White Buffalo
08. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
09. Home Again
10. The Long Lullaby
11. The Black Hills Sololoquy


"Rainbow Thunder is a collection of songs expressing the feelings and textures of the West in its Prime, and of the Native American Peoples who lived there. I hope it does them some small degree of justice - they who looked so hard into Nature."

VARIOUS ARTISTS - LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 05























01. Paul Giovanni & Magnet - The Landlord's Daughter
02. Incredible String Band - Invocation
03. Donovan - The Voyage of the Moon
04. Fairport Convention - Reynardine
05. C.O.B. - Soloman's Song
06. Pearls Before Swine - Rocket Man
07. Leonard Cohen - Last Years Man
08. Sandy Denny - Bruton Town
09. Magna Carta - Elizebethan
10. Steeleye Span - Lovely On the Water
11. Mourning Phase - Damn Your Eyes
12. Mythos - Oriental Journey
13. Perry Leopold - The Dawning Of Creation
14. The Woods Band - January Shows
15. Bread, Love & Dreams - Butterflyland
16. Tir Na Nog - Our Love Will Not Decay


The fifth Volume of this series stretches out to include ace obscure krautrock (Mythos) and Leonard Cohen. This edition is one of the best.