England
by Amazing Blondel
- Type: Album
- Released: October 1972
- Label: Island
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 34:36
- Community rating: 3.67/5 from 3 ratings
Artists on this release: Terence Alan Wincott, Adrian Hopkins, Jack Laroque, Phill Brown
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Wholly embracing their unique, anachronistic aesthetic, the British trio delivered an intricate, acoustic celebration of Tudor and Elizabethan musical traditions. Employing a vast array of historical instruments鈥攊ncluding lutes, crumhorns, and harpsichords鈥攖he delicately arranged song suites present a remarkably pure, atmospheric dedication to pre-classical English history and pastoral romanticism.
Genres
Descriptors: conceptual, acoustic, progressive, folk, determined, electronic, vocal
Tracklist
- Seascape (6:13)
- Landscape (7:40)
- Afterglow (3:41)
- A Spring Air (3:42)
- Cantus Firmus To Counterpoint (3:23)
- Sinfonia For Guitar And Strings (From The Suite "For My Ladys Delight" ) (3:13)
- Dolor Dulcis (3:28)
- Lament To The Earl Of Bottesford Beck (3:12)
Credits
- Adrian Hopkins - conductor [hopkins / blondel ensemble], arranged by [strings, oboe, horn], harpsichord
- Simms-Watts - equipment [amplification by]
- CCS - graphics
- Edward Baird - guitar [1st], vocals, dulcimer, twelve-string guitar, percussion, written-by
- John David Gladwin - guitar [2nd], lead vocals, double bass, snare [tabor], tubular bells, written-by
- Jack Laroque - leader, strings
- David Rubio - luthier [guitars by]
- Colin Carr - painting
- Amazing Blondel - Primary Artist
- Terence Alan Wincott - Written-By