LAMMAS MOON (05/14)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 06
(A Collection Of Wyrd-Folk Music From 1966-1980)


Original Issue: www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/

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Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5

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Tracklist (courtesy of http://www.dlc.fi/~hhaahti/Levyt/levyt_kok2.html):

the wicker man soundtrack: summer is a coming in
fresh maggots: rosemary hill
gagalactyca: merlin melaine est
milkwood tapestry: the bell of junip
dando shaft: an evening with rain
extradition: a water song
linda perhacs: parallellograms
shelagh mcdonald: stargazer
elyse: ’deed i do
trader horne: morning way
the trees: little black cloud
maitreya kali: black swan
wittuser & westrupp: schopfung
eclection: st georg & the dragon
red television: the ghost of emile zola

LAMMAS MOON (05/14)

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LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 05
(A Collection Of Wyrd-Folk Music From 1966-1980)



Original Issue: www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/

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Tracklist (courtesy of http://www.dlc.fi/~hhaahti/Levyt/levyt_kok2.html):

the wicker man: the landlord’s daughter
the incredible string band: invocation
donovan: the voyage of the moon
fairport convention: reynardine
clive’s own band (C.O.B.): solomon’s song
pearls before swine: rocket man
leonard cohen: last year’s man
sandy denny: bruton town
magna carta: elizabethan
steeleye span: lovely on the water
mourning phase: damn your eyes
mythos: oriental journey
perry leopold: the dawning of creation
the woods band: january shows
bread love & dreams: butterflyland
tir na nog: our love will not decay

LAMMAS MOON (04/14)

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LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 04
(A Collection Of Wyrd-Folk Music From 1966-1980)


Original Issue: www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/

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Tracklist (courtesy of http://www.dlc.fi/~hhaahti/Levyt/levyt_kok2.html):

the wicker man soundtrack: the maypole song
the strawbs: in amongst the roses
tickawinda: go your way
westwind: robin hill
gryphon: the unquiet grave
perry leopold: the journey
these trails: psyche I / share your water
magic carpet: the dream
mormos: number five in the book
magna carta: white snow dove
skybird: snow cloud
the peelers: ramblin’ robin
waterfall: and for you
melton constable: river lane
oberon: nottanum town
heron: the wanderer
incredible string band: air
mr fox: all the good times

FULL STURGEON MOON (13 August 2011)

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CAMERATA MEDIOLANENSE

CAMPO DI MARTE


Original Issue: 1996 Discordia (Disc 093 CD)

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from Old Europa Café:

This album was released back in 1996 and is still one of the very best Neoclassic albums ever ! True European music!

The quality of Camerata in their music stile is unique and no other group was able to achieve such results …

Fanfare, Drums, super wonderful Vocals especially the female ones, Cembalo plus other classic instruments, simply majestic sounds and exquisite compositions !

LAMMAS MOON (03/14)

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LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 03
(A Collection Of Wyrd-Folk Music From 1966-1980)


Original Issue: www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/

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Tracklist (courtesy of http://www.dlc.fi/~hhaahti/Levyt/levyt_kok2.html):

the wicker man soundtrack: corn riggs
mandy morton & the spriguns: witchfinder
caedmon: sea song
moonkyte: way out hermit
steve ashley: candlemas carol
spirogyra: an everyday consumption song
fuschia: shoes and ships
owen hand: the garden
shide and acorn: watching a seagull
broselmaschine: godanken
emtidi: saat
langsyne: morning
pentangle: lyke-wake dirge
wizz jones: magical flight
nick drake: black eyed dog
incredible string band: my name is death
carol of harvest: somewhere at the end of the rainbow

LITHA (21 June 2011)

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HOFFMAN KAY

FLORET SILVA


Original Issue: 1985 Belle Antique (BELLE 8502 )

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from Tinymixtapes :

The tumultuous history of Kay Hoffman's 1977 progressive folk opus Floret Silva is perhaps widely known among aficionados of underground psych folk and Italian prog, but it does indeed bear mentioning for the uninitiated, at least for the purposes of this review. Hoffman was an Italian composer who endeavored to set parts of the legendary Carmina Burana basically a Thirteenth Century Northern European manuscript containing a series of mostly anonymous religious and spiritual poetry to music.

Assisted by the Italian progressive rock band Pierrot Lunaire (and most notably the vocals of singer Jacqueline Darby), Hoffman composed and produced Floret Silva, an ambitious recording that combined elements of psych folk, psychedelic rock, and Italian prog with overtones of Medieval choral music.

Due to a number of factors, including deadlines not met, and possibly the passage of the Seventies psych folk zeitgeist into the void, Floret Silva was not released in 1978 as was Hoffman's original intention. Instead it was released in 1985 on a small Japanese label, Belle Antique, where it received precious little in the way of international exposure.

Finally, three decades later, Floret Silva has been issued in remastered and impeccably packaged form on Robot Records. Now that psych folk and wyrd folk artists such as Jan Dukes de Grey have begun to achieve renewed popularity among the indie rock/free folk scene, the record is finally being reissued to greater fanfare that Hoffman could have perhaps imagined.

Sounding at times like the precursor to the music of Dead Can Dance, Floret Silva contains eerie passages of instrumental rock and medieval folk, and has the somewhat unusual distinction of featuring lyrics sung entirely in Latin, courtesy of the aforementioned Jacqueline Darby. Although the record is heavily informed by progressive rock and even a healthy dose of jazz at times, it falls firmly within the purview of what is commonly known as psych (or acid) folk.

Replete with flutes, harpsichord, strings, and melancholic acoustic guitar, Floret Silva is a druggy synthesis of traditional music, medieval chants and somewhat dated-sounding Seventies musical ornamentation. But despite Hoffman's tendency to push the limits of the genre via her experimental and highly unorthodox arrangements (Hoffman's métier was composition in a minimalist style), the album's pastoral pieces sound entirely as suitable for romps around the maypole as those of, say, Clive's Original Band. On most of these tracks, particularly on the vocal pieces, there is a palpable and frequently unsettling Wicker Man vibe at work here.

Unlike the more definitive progenitors of the psych-folk genre Fairport Convention, Comus, Incredible String Band et al. Kay Hoffman's album is unfortunately marred by both its late emergence into the scene and its Seventies musical affectations. The production values on Floret Silva would not have been sorely out of place on one of Creed Taylor's CTI records.

The muffled drums, noodly, acid-laced guitar leads, and reverb-drenched Fender Rhodes accompaniment right out of a Chuck Mangione album have the overall effect of dulling Hoffman's medieval atmosphere, rendering it distractingly anachronistic. But all criticism aside, Floret Silva is a strange and intriguing release that gives the listener a welcome insight into a different, more electric, aspect of the genre. And truth be told, it's at times a hauntingly beautiful album that will leave certain passages resonating with the listener for considerable length of time.

LAMMAS MOON (02/14)

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LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 02
(A Collection Of Wyrd-Folk Music From 1966-1980)


Original Issue: www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/

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Tracklist (courtesy of http://www.dlc.fi/~hhaahti/Levyt/levyt_kok2.html):

the wicker man soundtrack: willow’s song
bread, love and dreams: brother john
synanthesia: peck strangely & worried evening
comus: song to comus
mellow candle: poet and the witch
donovan: voyage into the golden screen
duncan browne: chloe in the garden
loudest whisper: pied piper
flibbertigibbet: my lagan love
principal edward’s magic theatre: sacrifice
the moths: the heron’s daughter
the sweeney men: dreams for me
famous jug band: a leaf must fall
tudor lodge: willow tree
shirley collins: the cruel mother
robin williamson: songs in the earth and air

LAMMAS MOON (01/14)

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LAMMAS NIGHT LAMENTS VOLUME 01
(A Collection Of Wyrd-Folk Music From 1966-1980)


Original Issue: www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/

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Tracklist (courtesy of http://www.dlc.fi/~hhaahti/Levyt/levyt_kok2.html):

the wicker man soundtrack: main theme
anne briggs: standing on your shore
clive’s own band (C.O.B.): spirit of love
water into wine band: waiting for another day
forest: bluebell dance
dulcimer: caravan
the trees: garden of jane delawney
tir na nog: time is like a promise
dr strangely strange: frosty morning
midwinter: waters of sweet sorrow
stone angel: the bells of dunwich
third ear band: fleance
vashti bunyan: rainbow river
tea and symphony: winter
the sun also rises: tales of jasmine & suicide
mark fry: the witch
pearls before swine: images of april

FULL BEAVER MOON (21 November 2010)

The musick dedicated to this Esbat is:

AUTUMN SHADE

EZRA MOON


Original Issue: 2007 Strange Attractors Audio House (SAAH049) Buy it here!!!

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Margot-meter: 4,5 moons / 5

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from http://www.tinymixtapes.com/:

Tulsa, Oklahoma native Jes Leneé’s prematurely world-weary and timeworn vocals may betray a maturity beyond her years, but they also possess a damaged, little-girl-lost quality that suffuses her songcraft with a ghostlike, almost spooky ambience. Her lyrics, however cryptic and ambiguous, are nonetheless conveyed with an anguished candor that reinforces the music’s supernatural affectations, and while she frequently sacrifices profundity for abstraction, Leneé’s nebulous lyrics suit the tone of the music, which has a distinctly antiquated flavor to it. Her voice is expressive, but conversely yearns to convey something inexpressible, as on the beautiful and somewhat distressing “Red,” with its simple yet devastating melody and ominous lyrics.

Ezra Moon, Leneé’s debut release under the name Autumn Shade, illustrates the manner in which an album’s whole dynamic can be altered entirely by its production, and in keeping with her band’s moniker, there is an autumnal, almost gothic quality to these pieces, redolent of gray skies, wet leaves, and wood-smoke haze. The record’s opening instrumental, “Sparrow,” features a delicate piano figure that, with its slightly out-of-tune character suggestive of a creaky upright piano from an Old West saloon, ultimately dematerializes and dissipates as if into a cloud of dust motes. Leneé’s lyrics and plaintive, minor-key chord progressions convey a wistful sense of melancholy that, coupled with the record’s atmosphere, pack an additional emotional wallop. Ornate piano melodies are a testament to Leneé’s background as a classically trained musician and add a subtle hint of color to a generally sepia-toned affair.

Reduced to their constituent elements, which generally include little more than vocals, guitar, and piano, with the occasional violin and hammered dulcimer flourish, the frugal arrangements of these tracks are fairly straightforward. But the filigree production from Derick Snow infuses the music with something spectral and sometimes icy cold. Snow’s production also serves to emphasize the broad dynamic range of the instruments. This technique is manifest on the incredibly haunting “Spanish Willow,” which features a vibrant and animated acoustic guitar line that makes Leneé’s subtly reverbed vocals sound even more spectral and otherworldly, as if those of an apparition beckoning from beyond this mortal coil. Other shorter, more piano-driven tracks act as interludes that showcase the singer’s impressive dexterity on the keys.

Stark as these pieces are, they make amazing use of space; in between guitar strums or the deftly keyed notes of a piano we find ourselves paying attention to the lingering ambience, which seems informed by an earthy resonance. As if to even further emphasize the importance of space, atmosphere, and the visual aspects of Autumn Shade's music, Snow doubles as a live painter on stage. On the whole, Ezra Moon is an exercise in subtlety. Trim and succinct, these 12 tracks showcase the abilities of a talented, budding songwriter, and leave us waiting in earnest for more.

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from http://www.strange-attractors.com/:

Autumn Shade is the nom de plume of Jes Lenee', a stunning young songstress brimming with unbridled talent. Armed with a satchel full of pensively beautiful tunes, Lenee' possesses a voice as pristine as any your ears will have heard in this lifetime. The fact that Lenee' calls Tulsa, Oklahoma home only adds to the mystery, for her music is much more aligned with the astral plane than anything resembling the Okie Plains. Lenee' is a classically trained piano prodigy, who at the age of eleven was penning songs that won award recognition. Ultimately seduced by the craft of songwriting, Autumn Shade is a marriage of her piano prowess and folk-inspired guitar strumming, imbued in a heady ambiance and enveloped in some of the most heavenly, intimate vocals to have come down the pike in some time.

Formed in 2002, the band self-releasing an EP entitled Grandfather's Attic, which caused a stir in the Tulsa and Midwest area; in the live setting, the band incorporates painter Derick Snow, who creates his pieces on stage, allowing the moods to dictate the whim of his creations, lending a tactile visual element to the music. Set to splash with their full-length debut Ezra Moon, Autumn Shade has concocted a fascinating foray into an ethereal, yet emotionally raw netherworld.

Ezra Moon is a journey into a unique sepia-toned microcosm, one that intertwines folk, chamber music, psychedelia, avant-rock and indie singer/songwriter. Opening with the wispy "Sparrow", a delicate piano interlude softly fluttering in and out of focus like a foggy memory, the misty landscape spills into "Home", a folk-inspired lament driven by acoustic strumming and Jes Lenee's yearning vocals. Colored by additional instrumentation of violin, hammer dulcimer and percussion, and a healthy penchant for sonic experimentation, the narcotic, detached feel of Ezra Moon is reminiscent of albums by the female artists that helped define the 4AD sound. Jes Lenee's classical roots and compositional sense invoke the avant-chamber feel of Rachel's, if they were enveloped in the hazy folk atmosphere that Marissa Nadler resides in. Ezra Moon is an entrancing debut, inaugurating Autumn Shade into the contemporary folk scene with an understatedly personal and cinematic sound.

FULL WOLF MOON (30 January 2010)

The musick dedicated to this Esbat is:

ARBOGAST LUC

HORTUS DEI


Original Issue: 2007 Private Release (No Number) Buy it here!!!

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Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5

For this Esbat I'd like to use the bit of visibility this blog has gained (thank you, folks) to promote the work of a French artist I've recently encountered during my travels across Europe: Luc Arbogast.

More details about him below.

Please if you like the musick (and I know lots of you will) come into contact with the Artist and buy his CDs that I consider real gems in the modern medieval revival trend. Essential listening!!!

His "Hortus Dei" is in heavy rotation in my CD player since day one I purchased it :)

Cheers,
Margot

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1. Morgenstern
2. La rosa enflorece
3. La valse du miroir
4. In memoriam Alesia
5. Pälastina lied
6. Dame de Cataluña
7. Non sofre Santa Maria
8. Beold de maï
9. Entre moi et mon ami
10. Unicornus
11. Hortus Dei
12. Ange

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from http://www.ubikann.com/:

It’s been a long time since I had such an unusual and memorable experience and it happened while we were looking at the cathedral in Strasbourg. A guy sitting on a stool started playing an instrument (called a bouzouki) and singing. He is pretty large guy and has several tattoos on each arm.

You look at him and expect a real husky voice. To begin with his voice was pretty low and slowly started crescendo. What was astonishing was the power and pitch of his voice. He is labelled as a “Countertenor mezzo-soprano”. For myself and maybe others this means he got to really high notes and was able to hold them at great ease ! I didn’t have anything I could use to record him and although a friend recorded the voice on a phone, the quality isn’t good.

To describe the overall style I suppose I would say medieval or Shakespearian, a really beautiful moment and after searching on the Internet I can only tell you that the disc is not yet available on the Internet anywhere. The guy is called Luc Arbogast and from what I understand he also plays with his wife Mélusine who wasn’t there on this occasion.

Before he started singing there were maybe five or six people in front of the cathedral and when he finished I would guess there were over fifty in a semi-circle around him. He switched from German to French with great ease after singing, talking to people wanting to buy his CD. He has a French father (from Strasbourg) and German mother.

EOSTRE (21 March 2009)

The musick dedicated to this Sabbat is:

EMMA MYLDENBERGER

TOUR DE TRANCE


Original Issue: 1979 Minos & Stelis (MS 1011)

Reissue: 2006 Garden Of Delights (CD 127) Buy it here!!!

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Margot-meter: 4,5 moons / 5

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1 Ein Bißchen (4:00)
2 Regenreigen (19:21)
3 Lenyas Fantasie (6:53)
4 RAA (8:24)
5 Wassensteyns Hochzeitsnacht (4:59)

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from The Crack in the Cosmic Egg:

Initially formed by a number of street musicians in Hirschberg, 1977, with the desire to create something more than just folk music, Emma Myldenberger quickly established a rich folk-rock style, totally acoustic, featuring female vocals and a penchant for blending in many other ethnic musics than just German folk.

The second album, TOUR DE TRANCE, with considerably longer tracks and much more instrumental interplay, broke even more ground with a uniquely styled music that even went beyond the pioneering music of Between or the Third Ear Band, mysteriously ethnic and medieval, not really rock but with a lively rock energy, and an abundance of solos, surprising for what was still a totally acoustic ensemble. Emma Myldenberger were indeed pioneers that were pushing beyond the frontiers of established progressive, folk and world musics. But, for some unknown reason, they split before the end of the decade.

Three Emma Myldenberger members later became the nucleus of the equally innovative Radio Noisz Ensemble. Biber Gullatz is nowadays much sought after as a session musician, working in jazz, ethnic and new-age musics.

FULL COLD MOON (12 December 2008)

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ORDO EQUITUM SOLIS

ANIMI ÆGRITUDO


Original Issue: 1991 Music Maxima Magnetica (eee-12)

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Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5

The Godz only know how much I love this record...thank you Leithana & Deraclamo for producing such a timeless masterpiece!

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1 Our Lady Of The Wild Flowers (5:20)
2 Message To Pan (3:08)
3 Notre Solitude (4:58)
4 Vacuum Quaerens (6:40)
5 Animi Aegritudo (4:47)
6 Reis Glorios (6:07)
7 Silence For Hell (3:58)
8 The Blood, Tomorrow (3:15)
9 Final (4:03)

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from Electric Shock Treatment:

I'm not too sure about this one. I find it very hard to shrug off the images and greenery of "Robin The Hooded Man" which arose while listening to these medieval, mythologically inspired compositions. The actual music (harp, lute, piano, guitar, zither) does work extremely effectively, but Leithana's vocals are a little flat. The track titles might give you an indication of the OES sound: Message to Pan, Notre Solitude, Reis Gloria and Vacuum Quaerens. Assisted by Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus, this is a fine album with an original and emotional content.

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from Rusmetal:

I don’t know if this LP should be reckoned to ‘black metal archives’, but what the hell, I always considered so-called ‘dark ambient’ as a part of BM, and since ORDO EQUITUM SOLIS play exactly this kind of music and this album is rather old, the review on “Animi Aegritudo” is placed here. If I’m not mistaken, this duo (Leithana (vocals, keyboards) and Deraclamo (guitars, voice)) comes from Italy and their style is dark, barocco (am I mistaken, tell me?!) ambient stuff. This LP consists of nine songs, some of them are really dark, few others bring the reminiscences of early DEAD CAN DANCE, others are somewhat romantic… Since such acts as ARCANA, ELEND, ILDFROST and RAISON D’ETRE were conceived much later, ORDO EQUITUM SOLIS inevitably gathered some attention back then. And they deserved it. This duo created something undoubtedly inimitable, too bad that I haven’t heard anything from them for a long time…

CASTAWAY MOON (desert island musick)

Kawabata Makoto's (of Acid Mothers Temple) all-times favourite album (read more at this page; #12 )

STUDIO DER FRÜHEN MUSIK

TROUBADOURS - TROUVÈRES - MINSTRELS

Original Issue: 1966 Telefunken (SAWT 9567-B), 1970 Teldec (6.41275 AW), 1974 Telefunken (SAWT 9487-A)

Reissue: 1995 Teldec (4509-97938-2)

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Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5

A more than refreshing listening after my recent holidays in Provence & Languedoc-Roussillon! Essential

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CD 1

1. Pierre Vidal: Baron, de mon dan covit
2. Giraut de Bornelh: Leu chansonet' e vil
3. Salterello
4. Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta mover
5. Veris ad imperia
6. A l'entrada del temps clar
7. Raimbaut de Vaqueiras: Kalenda Maia
8. Beatriz de Dia: A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria
9. Jacques de Cambrai: Retrowange novelle
10. Guiot de Dijon: Chanterai por mon courage
11. Lasse, pour quoi refusai

CD 2

1. Gillebert de Berneville: De moi doleros vos chant
2. Gace Brulé: Biaus m'est estez
3. Etienne de Meaux: Trop est mes maris jalos
4. Li joliz temps d'estay
5. Walther von der Vogelweide: Mir hat her Gerhart Atze ein pfert
6. Walther von der Vogelweide: Unter der linden an der heide
7. Walther von der Vogelweide: Nu alrest lebe ich mir werde
8. Neidhart von Reuental: Meie, din liehter schin
9. Neidhart von Reuental: Blozen wir den anger ligen sahen
10. Pseudo-Neidhart: Fürste Friderich
11. Neidhart von Reuental: Meienzeit
12. Chanconetta Tedescha I
13. Reinmar von Brennenberg: Wol mich des tages do mir alrest ist worden kunt
14. Chanconetta Tedescha II
15. Der Unverzagte: Der kuninc Rodolp
16. Frauenlob (Heinrich von Meissen): Ez waent ein narrenwise
17. Wizlâw III von Rügen: Ich warne dich, vil junger man, gezarte
18. Wizlâw III von Rügen: Loibere risen

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from Makoto's Listening Room:

This 2CD set is the most favorite album in all music in the world for me. Of course i have a vinyl box set too. I bought this cd at Fnac in Paris in Autmun 1999. then i could find so many troubadours cds at this shop, i was very surprised...because I'd never see such large troubadours' CD space in anywhere.

But one of my friend told me this CD and all this series were out of print now...
oh man... why??? I think any record company have to keep the catalog of "good music", even if the sales was not so good!

If i have to choose only one record in all my life, I'm sure to choose this one. I've never listened such beautiful and heavenly music... and I can feel very "acid folk" atmosphere too...