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| 1. Bad Penny | |||
| 2. A Glade | |||
| 3. Somewhere | |||
| 4. Lovemakers' Ways | |||
| 5. While You're Gone | |||
| 6. Sylvie (We'd Better Not Pretend) | |||
| 7. A Fantasy You | |||
| 8. Fading Light | |||
| 9. Do You Want Some Smoke? | |||
| 10. Don't Want To Go | |||
| 11. Nothing Else Will Matter | |||
| 12. Mirror Of Life | |||
| 13. Rain Is On My Balcony | |||
| 14. Hawk The Hawker | |||
| 15. Bluebell Dance | |||
| 16. The Midnight Hanging of A Runaway Serf | |||
| 17. To Julie | |||
| 18. Gypsy Girl And Rambleaway | |||
| 19. Do Not Walk In The Rain | |||
| 20. Much Ado About Nothing | |||
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Albums originally released in 1969 and 1970 respectively. Forest were a trio (Martin Welham, Derek Allenby, and Hadrian Welham) of multi-instrumentalists, playing not just the expected guitars, but harmonium, harpsichord, pipes, whistle, organ, and mandolin. A favourite of DJ John Peel, Forest found a home on Harvest Records.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Forest were a gifted trio from North England who all wrote, sang and played numerous instruments on this, a compilation of their two outstanding albums.
The first album was preceded by one of the most beautiful singles of the 1960's - Searching For Shadows'. The album did not contain the single but complex hormonies and intriguing melodies puts the album a cut above the more traditional folk fringe at the time. Check out the haunting 'Don't Want To Go' and the hormonic beuty on 'Sylvie'.
The second album 'Full Circle' managed the near impossible task of bettering the debut eponymous album. Along with Fairport Convention and The Incredible String Band this album puts Forest firmly in the list of all time great folkesque bands.
With the exception of 2 tracks the album would be flawless. Highlights include the piano blues-rock track, 'Do Not Walk In The Rain' - showing that they are equally gifted away from straight folk the beautiful 'Graveyard' nodding to their classical musicianship, the exquisite harmonies on 'Famine Song' and the album track of the year in 1970, the timeless 'autumn childhood'.
These albums make you wonder what else the trio could have achieved had the music climate not changed to more about the visual side than the musical content in the 1970's.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Based upon the simplicity of the musical vision within this trio, (i.e. English, pastoral, acoustic-guitar-in-a-field type music) there really is probably no better way of doing it than Forest do. Upon first impressions (especially with the self-title disk) I couldn't help but laugh at how extremely hippyish I found them. 'Surely these people are the most hippyish hippies of all time' I said. And it is not because they put on a show to make themselves appear that way (i.e. nonsense about pixies and fairies) but their music presents themselves as they simply are, thus all hippy antics were pointed at them and not at their whims.
The self-title disk consists of songs of a pop-type structure, i.e. verse, chorus etc. and the songs are generally more (dare I say it) commercial (it isn't commercial in any way, but compared to full circle it is). It took me a long time however to turn to Full Circle and discover that they are neither corny field-lovin' folk nor extreme hippies. Instead I discovered that their music is genuinely charming and is in no way laughable or humorous, at least not in the way that I first thought they were. Half the charm of the trio is that they do not have a lot to say as they themselves said in a song, and shan't pretend to either.
In terms of folk, this was the first folk-type album I ever bought and ever since then I have been searching for folk bands that match the high expectations that my first try at folk music was so lucky to come across. Spirogyra came as a result (superb stuff)
Musically > fantastic vocal harmonies and features classically-trained, inventive and skilled guitarists and general instrumentalists and so forth.
If you want to have a feel of real English charm with songs of mystery, an ore of nature, a touch of underground and moods that often turn away from flowery meadows into dark, thick woods of haunting shadows and tear-dropping ghosts then this great value for money CD is for you.
Favourite tracks? > has to be Famine Song and Autumn Child. I see them both as the same song and together they work beautifully.
The self-title disk consists of songs of a pop-type structure, i.e. verse, chorus etc. and the songs are generally more (dare I say it) commercial (it isn't commercial in any way, but compared to full circle it is). It took me a long time however to turn to Full Circle and discover that they are neither corny field-lovin' folk nor extreme hippies. Instead I discovered that their music is genuinely charming and is in no way laughable or humorous, at least not in the way that I first thought they were. Half the charm of the trio is that they do not have a lot to say as they themselves said in a song, and shan't pretend to either.
In terms of folk, this was the first folk-type album I ever bought and ever since then I have been searching for folk bands that match the high expectations that my first try at folk music was so lucky to come across. Spirogyra came as a result (superb stuff)
Musically > fantastic vocal harmonies and features classically-trained, inventive and skilled guitarists and general instrumentalists and so forth.
If you want to have a feel of real English charm with songs of mystery, an ore of nature, a touch of underground and moods that often turn away from flowery meadows into dark, thick woods of haunting shadows and tear-dropping ghosts then this great value for money CD is for you.
Favourite tracks? > has to be Famine Song and Autumn Child. I see them both as the same song and together they work beautifully.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had these records in the 70s and I loved them BUT I didn't know anyone else who did. Thought they were gone forever and I was so glad when I found them again. I play them a lot and still love them and still don't know anyone else who does BUT I am convinced they are brilliant. They are just not in any way mainstream. Special stuff for special people?
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I was directed towards this band by a song called "Graveyard" on an album by Kno.
It features Graveyard from disc 2 of this album sampled for the bass line and made me seek... Read more
It features Graveyard from disc 2 of this album sampled for the bass line and made me seek... Read more
Published 4 months ago by A. Davies
Prickly and spirited psych-folk from back in the day
Forest (or The Foresters Of Walesby, as they orginally were, and which I like the sound of better) were three latter-day minstrels, their music had a prickly, spindly quality, and... Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2010 by Pseudonymous
If EMIs' myopia doesnt see fit...
to release remastered versions of these two albums including the one single stupidly missing from THE HARVEST YEARS compilation,
then they are dumber than they appear. Read more
then they are dumber than they appear. Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2009 by Mark C.
A Treasure
I had not known there had been a second album from this band until I bought the CD. I have treasured the first album since I was fifteen (in LP, 8 track, and CD). Read more
Published on 31 May 2008 by Bruce R. Campbell
sorry, but...
Nobody will thank me for this review, but I've got to make this point..
If you're considering buying this on the strength of Fading Light, which has turned up on a few... Read more
If you're considering buying this on the strength of Fading Light, which has turned up on a few... Read more
Published on 7 July 2007 by Chorlton
Forgotten Gems...
Ah, yes the Harvest Mystique.
I am more graced towards FULL CIRCLE, of the themes of nature, mystery, death and darkness-told in a certain 'acid-y' serious, subtle way, of... Read more
I am more graced towards FULL CIRCLE, of the themes of nature, mystery, death and darkness-told in a certain 'acid-y' serious, subtle way, of... Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2002
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