Avocet

by Bert Jansch & Martin Jenkins

Avocet cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 February 1979
  • Label: Charisma
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 58:02
  • Community rating: 3.98/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Teaming up with multi-instrumentalist Martin Jenkins, the legendary acoustic guitarist crafted a beautiful, entirely instrumental concept album themed around various bird species. The intricate, classically influenced fingerpicking is masterfully intertwined with delicate violin, mandocello, and flute accompaniment. Released well past the commercial peak of the British folk revival, it is highly prized by connoisseurs as an elegant, deeply pastoral masterwork.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, instrumental, conceptual, suite, acoustic, folk, intricate, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Avocet (17:59)
  2. Lapwing (1:33)
  3. Bittern (7:49)
  4. Kingfisher (3:44)
  5. Osprey (3:14)
  6. Kittiwake (2:47)
  7. Bittern - Live (7:14)
  8. Kingfisher - Live (3:39)
  9. Avocet - Live (9:59)

Credits

  • Bert Jansch - primary artist, guitar, piano, producer, written-by
  • Martin Jenkins - primary artist, mandocello, violin, flute, producer, written-by
  • Danny Thompson - bass, producer
  • Jesper Wetterslev Frederiksen - design [cover]
  • Flemming Rasmussen - engineer
  • Freddy Hansson - engineer
  • Peter Abrahamsen - executive-producer [realisation]
  • Andreas Trier Mørch - photography by

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