Tuesday, 8 December 2009

The Sun Also Rises - The Sun Also Rises 1970

The husband and wife duo from Cardiff have captured moods by patterns of sound and words. Totally influenced by the Incredible String Band, the album offers whimsical, acoustic acid folk, with weird, disjointed hippie lyrics about a fantasy world of mythological beings such as fairies, elves and dragons. It’s a charming period piece.

Personnel
Graham Hemingway/vocals,guitars
Anne Hemingway/vocals,dulcimer,glockenspiel,vibes,percussion

Tracks
1. I Really Wanted You
2. Wizard Shep
3. Part of the Room
4. Green Room
5. Tales of Jasmine and Suicide
6. Flowers
7. Song of Consolation
8. Suddenly It’s Evening
9. Death
10. Fafnir and the Knights


10 comments:

Pepe Ferrús said...

One of the best acid-folk LPs from the British Isles, very ISB -influenced but more fragile in sound. Beautiful.
Pepe

Anonymous said...

ill try it :)
sounds interesting

KJKJ74

Ezequiel said...

El mejor blog. Excelente disco. Gracias.

zappahead said...

Well, I wanted to listen to this because like the band, im from cardiff but alas....never heard of them before...be interesting to listen...thanks for sharing.

Anonymous said...

many thanks, pepe's comment sounds most encouraging..... just skipping thru some of the tracks now and, yes, thumbs up :)

qef

Anonymous said...

Graham and Anne were good friends of mine, we were all resident artists at a folk club in South Wales, in Newport. It was run by Dublin Moran.Iwas in a jugband called Moby Jug. The Album is great, so were Graham and Anne, we all used to go to Cambridge Folk Festival, they played on main stage once. Lost touch with them now, I'm still gigging 40 yrs on in a RnB band called Blues Train, still play their Album sometimes, great memories, cheers Reg,www.myspace.com/bluestrainbuxton

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot, it seems interesting. Never heard of them before, though.

Anonymous said...

Links dead....

hilke said...

never heard of them before but an isb-influenced uk-act from the 60s
is worth enough to check it out - thx

Ozzy said...

The song "Death" is amazingly beautiful! Cheers mate!