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| 1. Prelude (2010 Digital Remaster) |
| 2. Mayday Galliard (2010 Digital Remaster) |
| 3. Online (2010 Digital Remaster) |
| 4. Childe Roland (2010 Digital Remaster) |
| 5. Fand I (2010 Digital Remaster) |
| 6. Fand II (2010 Digital Remaster) |
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First ever official CD release of the 1977 album from The Enid, based on a new digital remaster of the original recordings.
Aerie Faerie Nonsense was the band's second album, following In the Region of the Summer Stars.
Aerie Faerie Nonsense was the band's second album, following In the Region of the Summer Stars.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
BUY IT. BUY IT NOW
I review the 1983 re-recording elsewhere but make reference to this mighty original from 1977 which at the time was still languishing in the vaults in EMI over 25 long years when I wrote my review.
No longer ....the version on this label is the only authentic digital representation of the original analogue master tapes.
This was always comfortably one of my Top 10 albums of all time and the 2010 transfer to digital by EMI Abbey Road and some tweaks to the mix by The Enid themselves have allowed this CD to retain all the warmth and expression of the original vinyl.
EMI and The Enid in partnership have brought this back to life ...the stunning iconic artwork too. Who was that girl ...if not Fand, the Irish goddess of the sea ?
This is probably the greatest fusion of rock and classical music ever recorded - the arrangements both simple and elaborate where and when needed, the melodies utterly memorable, the playing outstanding, delicate, bombastic, .....lead guitar phrasing like no other. Potent stuff especially if you turn it up !
Instrumental throughout ...how a 6 piece rock band executed this vision in 1977 simply defies belief. No one sounds like this and I doubt that anyone ever will.
Features The Enid's most celebrated piece, "Fand" which took up the whole of the original Side 2. An absolute tour-de-force of tone, calm, power and melody ....it builds through passages lifting the listener to some other place.
As later featured on thier Live at Hammersmith album, it was this track that helped resurrect the band in the early 1980's when played on The Friday Rock Show and set them back on the path. Such was the fan reaction.
The beautiful and emotional Ondine with its delicate but simple refrain enhanced by the lute intro which is then reprised by delicate keyboard before the gorgeously fluid lead guitar (courtesy , I think, of Stephen Stewart) sits astride the band. The kind of melody that you feel certain you've heard before somewhere but I bet you haven't.
The strident Mayday Galliard. All pomp and ceremony .... but with a rocky edge.
The daunting Childe Roland powers along, lots of machine gun fire percussion and the guitars duelling away under layers of keyboards. High energy stuff. Play it loud.
They're all here ...and they've travelled well.
The Enid have come close over the years but this is the pinnacle.
An album to treasure.
I review the 1983 re-recording elsewhere but make reference to this mighty original from 1977 which at the time was still languishing in the vaults in EMI over 25 long years when I wrote my review.
No longer ....the version on this label is the only authentic digital representation of the original analogue master tapes.
This was always comfortably one of my Top 10 albums of all time and the 2010 transfer to digital by EMI Abbey Road and some tweaks to the mix by The Enid themselves have allowed this CD to retain all the warmth and expression of the original vinyl.
EMI and The Enid in partnership have brought this back to life ...the stunning iconic artwork too. Who was that girl ...if not Fand, the Irish goddess of the sea ?
This is probably the greatest fusion of rock and classical music ever recorded - the arrangements both simple and elaborate where and when needed, the melodies utterly memorable, the playing outstanding, delicate, bombastic, .....lead guitar phrasing like no other. Potent stuff especially if you turn it up !
Instrumental throughout ...how a 6 piece rock band executed this vision in 1977 simply defies belief. No one sounds like this and I doubt that anyone ever will.
Features The Enid's most celebrated piece, "Fand" which took up the whole of the original Side 2. An absolute tour-de-force of tone, calm, power and melody ....it builds through passages lifting the listener to some other place.
As later featured on thier Live at Hammersmith album, it was this track that helped resurrect the band in the early 1980's when played on The Friday Rock Show and set them back on the path. Such was the fan reaction.
The beautiful and emotional Ondine with its delicate but simple refrain enhanced by the lute intro which is then reprised by delicate keyboard before the gorgeously fluid lead guitar (courtesy , I think, of Stephen Stewart) sits astride the band. The kind of melody that you feel certain you've heard before somewhere but I bet you haven't.
The strident Mayday Galliard. All pomp and ceremony .... but with a rocky edge.
The daunting Childe Roland powers along, lots of machine gun fire percussion and the guitars duelling away under layers of keyboards. High energy stuff. Play it loud.
They're all here ...and they've travelled well.
The Enid have come close over the years but this is the pinnacle.
An album to treasure.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is it. The one you've been waiting for. At last the bona fide original EMI recording, cleaned up and spruced for its first properly mastered CD release. This is the one.
Sounds like your old vinyl copy, but with clearer, punchier dynamics, and minus the snap, crackle, and pop of the stylus. All the warmth and roundedness you could desire. A complete and satisfying audio journey in 36 minutes without the need for superfluous bonus tracks or out-takes.
One day some bright spark might have the initiative to orchestrate Enid compositions with classical instruments and deliver it to a deserving Proms audience. In the meantime enjoy this, a glorious slice of 'seventies symphonic pomp-rock that a generation on seems to have acquired a timeless mantle. Rejoice.
Sounds like your old vinyl copy, but with clearer, punchier dynamics, and minus the snap, crackle, and pop of the stylus. All the warmth and roundedness you could desire. A complete and satisfying audio journey in 36 minutes without the need for superfluous bonus tracks or out-takes.
One day some bright spark might have the initiative to orchestrate Enid compositions with classical instruments and deliver it to a deserving Proms audience. In the meantime enjoy this, a glorious slice of 'seventies symphonic pomp-rock that a generation on seems to have acquired a timeless mantle. Rejoice.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
First of all I should concur with the other reviews left here - this is indeed the band's finest hour, and perhaps the very best example of that particular niche of English prog rock that wrestled with symphonic ideas and structures. One likes to think that it did indeed work so successfully here because, rather than adopting the approach of a rock band rather ham-fistedly knocking out some classical tunes with amplified instruments, it was carefully pieced together by a man with an authentic understanding of the way 'classical' music is composed, and what different moods and emotions it can conjur up. Mr Robert John Godfrey - hats off to you, sir !
Of course, it's not simply the fact that the original tapes have been made available that has got fans of the band all a-tremble with excitement. It's also that they have been mastered on to CD with such splendid results. This is of course also a testament to the original engineers and the way the arrangements were drawn up, especially when you consider the relatively primitive synthesisers and recording desks being used. To now hear all the little intricacies revealed in the quiet passages ( the guitar playing is exquisite ! ) as well as the furniture-shaking bits at full pelt without the compressed distortion is a joy to behold. In short, we are now hearing the music 33 years after it was made, exactly the way it was always meant to be heard.
Encountering this album again has been like bumping in to a long-lost good friend, and finding them in fine fettle, happier, wiser and pleased to see you. Such was the emotional impact on first listen that, I don't mind telling you it brought a grin to my soul and a tear to my tired old eye ...
Of course, it's not simply the fact that the original tapes have been made available that has got fans of the band all a-tremble with excitement. It's also that they have been mastered on to CD with such splendid results. This is of course also a testament to the original engineers and the way the arrangements were drawn up, especially when you consider the relatively primitive synthesisers and recording desks being used. To now hear all the little intricacies revealed in the quiet passages ( the guitar playing is exquisite ! ) as well as the furniture-shaking bits at full pelt without the compressed distortion is a joy to behold. In short, we are now hearing the music 33 years after it was made, exactly the way it was always meant to be heard.
Encountering this album again has been like bumping in to a long-lost good friend, and finding them in fine fettle, happier, wiser and pleased to see you. Such was the emotional impact on first listen that, I don't mind telling you it brought a grin to my soul and a tear to my tired old eye ...
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
mediocre follow-up
After their great first album, in the region of the summer stars, this one comes across as a little lame and mediocre. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. F. M. Havicon
rupert cymru
and about time too!i bought the vinyl when first released and gave it away when i ceased to have a record deck to play it on. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. A. Slater
What's all the fuzz about?
Don't get me wrong. This is a really good album, somewhere between 4 and 5 stars. Master skilled musicians creating inspired music with a sound of their own. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Unsmart
AFN 2010 remaster- official release on Operation Seraphim
This is very probably the Enid's finest studio hour: the original 1977 LP remastered for CD for the first time. Read more
Published 20 months ago by N. Dutton
It's Not Nonsense!
I just want to echo my comments left for In The Region of Summer Stars (2010 Official version) and whole-heartedly agree with the other 5-star posts to-date. Marvellous!!
Published 20 months ago by ESP
Finaly!
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This is the first official, genuine release of the original version of "Aerie Faerie Nonsense" from 1977, ever released on CD.
This is the first official, genuine release of the original version of "Aerie Faerie Nonsense" from 1977, ever released on CD.
Published 20 months ago by Lars-Olof Ström
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