Gather In The Mushrooms |
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Artist:
Various Artists
Average Customer Rating: 
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: £3.68
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Disc 1:
| 1. Corn Riggs | | 2. Love In Ice Crystals | | 3. Lyke Wake Dirge | | 4. Graveyard | | 5. Milk And Honey | | 6. Morning Way | | 7. Buffalo | | 8. Silly Woman | | 9. Liz's Song | | 10. Lord And Master | | 11. Old Boot Wine | | 12. Winter Is Blue | | 13. All My Friends Are Back Again | | 14. Rosemary Hill | | 15. Love Song | | 16. The Family | | 17. Queen Of The Moonlight World | | 18. The Herald |
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 Beautiful and timeless, 2010-07-19
'Gather in the Mushrooms' features some truly excellent music, though certainly not 'folk' in any real sense of the word. 'Folk-influenced' would be a better description, much like the 'apocalyptic folk' or 'neo-folk' which blossomed during the 1980s (also in Britain), this earlier 'acid folk' derives inspiration from traditional folk without emulating it too much lyrically or even musically.
There are some real gems on here, ranging from Sallyangies' beautiful 'Love in Ice Crystals' to Trader Horne's 'Morning Way' (which feels like the breaking of dawn through murky clouds). More famous and familiar pieces include Comus' 'The Herald' from their unique 'First Utterance' album; Forest's 'Graveyard', an amazing tune (with a riff that sounds like The Clash's 'London Calling', or NOS's 'My Little Sociopath'); and Magnet's erotic setting of the Robert Burns poem 'Corn Riggs', which will be familiar to many from 'The Wicker Man' soundtrack.
The only regrettable song is Buffalo's 'Writing on the Wall', a blues-based piece which doesn't fit with the rest of album. Being a narrow-minded bigot, I usually skip this track. With that exception, 'Gather in the Mushrooms' takes me away to another place, and a time beyond time. I highly recommended it to all lovers of quality music.
Good curios, suprisingly good sound quality., 2010-02-04
Other reviewers here have already commented on the individual artists or songs, so other than saying that as with any 18-track compilation album, there'll be loads you'll probably love, and the odd track best thought-of as a "filler" - I'll just add that my biggest surprise on playing this was realising how good a job the CD sound engineers have done transferring original material that is forty-odd years old.
If you're old enough to have heard any of these tracks on original worn vinyl from the 60's and 70's, prepare to hear them in a new light; there's little intrusive tape hiss off the old analogue recordings and vocals are mostly very clear [-who needs lyric sheets anyway?]. Oh, and you can really identify some of the then-novel 'psychedelic stereo' mixing tricks that producers and mix-engineers loved to put into 60's 'hip' recordings!
Definitely worth a listen.
Pleasant, 2010-02-06
Good selection of folk from 40 years ago - makes pleasant listening in the car.
Liked it didn't love it., 2010-02-05
I bought this on a whim really just to hear some new music. It was very good but I don't think the genre itself appeals to me - because of that I can't really give it an in depth review.
 Beautiful!, 2010-02-01
Apart from the first track which is ok, it's a glorious collection of folk & alternative folk of the period, with the divine 'Milk & Honey' sung by Sandy Denny being my favourite (I played it continually during the end of the 1960's). Lovely to hear these reflective, beautiful songs again. Worth getting, definately.
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0766487348348
Label: Sanctuary
Manufacturer: Sanctuary
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sanctuary
Release Date: 2008-02-26
Studio: Sanctuary |
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