UK Folk Pysch BREAD LOVE AND DREAMS London PS 566 PROMO
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BREAD LOVE AND DREAMS - 'Bread Love and Dreams' on London Records, US (Cat # PS 566 ) from 1969
PROMOTIONAL COPY 2 inch sticker on the back of the cover. The cover is Unlaminated and label is Blue, Original London inner sleeve.
The cover/vinyl is in EX/Near Mint Minus condition
Thick Blue label London Vinyl plays superbly and is very clean and shiny. The cover has light wear and light corner dings hence EX.
Outstanding UK psych tinged folk trio w/beautiful female&male vocal harmonies.
In the late 1960s many folk artists were still almost entirely endebted to the traditional acoustic form, this band though would record three albums of which this is the first which moved away in turns into the more progressive area of extended concept song forms. This album has the innocent hall marks of a debut band for the era, much of the song writing is wide-eyed but being with a label like Decca they had the opportunity to expand from simple arrangements straight away. The first song 'Switch Out The Sun' is a naive club folk type song enlivened by strings, 'Virgin Kiss' is similar. Although the arrangement on 'The Least Said' is fairly pedestrian we are introduced to fantastic female vocals, an innocent delicate lead with a haunting siren backing. 'Falling Over Backwards' is a more stark sustained mood song with those siren vocals that remind sometimes of some of the ghostly early Pink Floyd, the mood is lost a little by being swamped in strings but this does have a strangeness and similarity to The Incredible String Band.
'Lady Of The Night' is a gorgeous stately ballad that is a fragile and precise as Trees' 'Garden of Jane Delawney'. There is a lot of mid-tempo strummed ordinary folk mixed with strings for a couple of tracks. 'Until She Needs You' repeats the formula of 'Lady Of The NIght' to quite devastating effect. 'Mirrors' has a clear psychedelic influence with it's raga-dream like vocal and finger-bells opening before leading into a rather ordinary song. 'Poet's Song' is different again with a stunning delicate celtic folk song led by soaring flute, a style that was still embryonic at the time of this songs recording but here perfectly realised. 'The Yellow Bellied Redback' is a confused spoken story song with more than a hint of hippy whimsy about it. The last song is a terrible uptempo chugging road blues that doesn't suit the band at all. So we have like many debut albums a very mixed bag. There is a lot that is ordinary and pedestrian here but when it is good the tracks mentioned it sparkles with a rare touch and for these tracks it is well worth picking up for the collector. This isn't acid-folk for much of the album but the few tracks of quality shine brightly.
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Musicians :
Angie Rew : vocal, guitars, organ, African drums
David McNiven : vocal, guitars, organ, piano, moothie & shepherd's pipe
Carolyn Davis : vocal, guitar, bass guitar, buzz-horn, tambourine
Tracks :
1. Switch Out The Sun
2. Virgin Kiss
3. The Least Said
4. Falling Over Backwards
5. Lady Of The Night
6. Main Street
7. Artificial Light
8. Until She Needs You
9. Mirrors
10. Poet's Song
11. The Yellow-Bellied Redback
12. 95 Octane Gravy
Shipping TO USA will be Priority Mail ($6 for up to two LP records) and Media Mail ($3 for upto 2 LP records) Insurance (Optional) is $1.30 extra.
Shipping charges to Canada/Rest of the world at actuals (Most of Europe about $11 for First LP).
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