Goatherder - Music For Promenades

 

TOR088. Released July 2022.

01 Sea Barn

02 Dubmill Point

03 Piano #1

04 Lapse

05 Music for Promenades

06 The Hayton Tapes (Vocal Drone)

07 Chichester House

08 W. Rag

09 New Years Day

10 Postmodern Grief Possibilities

Another release from the Cumbrian label of artists and friends. This time, it's my own music.

All music performed, recorded, edited and produced by Stephen Benson, October 2020 to October 2021.

Guitar, voice and effects on 'Music for Promenades' and piano on

'Postmodern Grief Possibilities' by Emily Ford.

Drums on 'Postmodern Grief Possibilities' by Steve Orchiton.

Voices on 'The Hayton Tapes' by Felicity Cromack, Emily Ford,

Stephanie Gardner, Gareth Hodgson, Ricardo Marzo, Camille Matton,

Asha Nicholson, Nick Taylor and Samantha Staniforth.

Mastered by Jonathan Sharp.

Cover art by Stephen Benson.

"Recorded during a pretty awful period...a collage of sounds and ideas that document that time. An avant-garde meditation on loss and grief." - Stephen.

Available for free streaming/download or as extremely limited vinyl pressing from Bandcamp.

Sunforest - Sound Of Sunforest

 

Deram 1970

01 Overture To The Sun

02 Where Are You

03 Bonny River

04 Be Like Me

05 Mr. Bumble

06 And I Was Blue

07 Lighthouse Keeper

08 Old Cluck

09 Lady Next Door

10 Peppermint Store

11 Magician In The Mountain

12 Lovely Day

13 Give Me All Your Loving

14 Garden Rug

15 All In Good Time

1970's 'Sound Of Sunforest' is the only album this American/English trio produced.

This is a baffling album; half of it has mind blowing psych folk the other half can be fairly terrible. The good stuff really makes it worth though.

I made an E.P. of the tracks I like, this really is a strange one.

The Byrds - Tomorrow's The Day

 

Self made compilation 2021 (Recorded 1968)

A1 You Ain't Going Nowhere

A2 I Am a Pilgrim

A3 Lazy Days

A4 Hickory Wind

A5 Pretty Polly

A6 All I Have Are Memories

B1 One Hundred Years from Now

B2 You Don't Miss Your Water

B3 Reputation

B4 You're Still on My Mind

B5 Pretty Boy Floyd

B6 Nothing Was Delivered

The alternate Byrds history continues. This time, its my re-imagining of the Gram Parsons era and the late 1968 recordings.

I've maintained a lot of the original album, but favour some of the outtakes. These tracks have a little more of the 'original' Byrds sound. That being said, I am a huge fan of the original 'Sweetheart Of The Rodeo'.

I made a cover using the same Jo Mora illustration the Sweetheart image was taken from.

If you're interested, here are my other Byrds albums, recompiled:

1966 - Byrds '66

1967 - Ideas As Maps

1968 - Universal Mind Decoder

1968 - Tomorrow's The Day

1969 - Byrds '69

1969 - The Ballads Of Easy Rider