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Triple CD set collecting rare cuts and cult favourites from the worlds of psychedelic, pastoral and funky folk, 1968-1975. Focusing on the outpouring of psychedelic folk flavours that emerged swiftly after the first psychedelic era. Featuring some wonderful selections from long collectable acts such as Sunforest, Mellow Candle, Trees, Heron, Trader Horne, Christine Harwood and many more. Compiled by Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve/The Grid), the compilation is themed around UK and Irish music from that hallowed period, and comes with a 7000 word essay and sleeve notes from the musician/producer. Celebrating the collision of traditional folk with new psychedelic studio techniques, new and exotic textures, and a developing groove. It's a wide and broad range of styles, drawing from folk, it's oral storytelling tradition, and also from jazz, beat, rhythm and blues, and the more mind opening sounds of psychedelia. Housed in a 3 CD digipack, designed in a striking wraparound collage by Lyndon Pike. Album Tracks 1. Fat Mattress Leafy Lane 2. Knocker Jungle Not Even a Letter 3. Duffy Power I Need You 4. Mike Hurst Face from the Past 5. Ray Fenwick I Wanna Stay Here 6. Hardin and York Natural Gas 7. Open Road Mother Earth 8. Paul Brett Motherless Child on a Merry-Go-Round 9. The Woods Band Noisey Johnny 10. Meic Stevens Yorric 11. Marc Ellington You Just Can't Believe What You See 12. Alan James Eastwood Crystal Blue 13. Arrival la Virra 14. Dando Shaft Cold Wind 15. Linda Hoyle Hymn to Valerie Solanas 16. Nirvana Nova Sketch 17. Brian Davison's Every Which Way Castle Sand 18. Jade Warrior Yellow Eyes 19. Writing on the Wall Buffalo 1. Chris Harwood Wooden Ships 2. Bridget St. John Fly High 3. Dando Shaft Rain 4. Heron Lord and Master 5. Mellow Candle Silversong 6. Trees Murdoch 7. Keith Christmas Foothills 8.
