SHIRLEY COLLINS & DOLLY COLLINS Anthems In Eden 1969 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS 1G/1G
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Apr 9, 2016
Sold Date
Mar 30, 2016
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£ 36
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SHIRLEY COLLINS & DOLLY COLLINS Anthems In Eden 1969 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS 1G/1G
SHIRLEY COLLINS & DOLLY COLLINSAnthems In Eden
UK HARVEST (SHVL 754) FIRST ISSUE (May 1969)
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST HARVEST LABELS - NO EMI BOX AND “SOLD IN UK” TEXT PRINTED ON FOUR LINES
MATRIX: SHVL 754 A-2 / SHVL 754 B-1
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/G and 1/G (one of the first 300 or so copies made)
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER WITH “MADE IN ENGLAND” AND “PATENTS APPLIED FOR” PRINTED IN BLACK
One of the unimpeachable gems of the late-'60s English folk scene, Shirley & Dolly Collins' Anthems in Eden grew out of the sisters' love of David Munrow's Musica Reservata, an ensemble that combined medieval and "early" instrumentation with music of more or less similar vintage -- an obvious notion if one thinks about it, but one that had been very much snowballed beneath the similarly contemporary obsession with electrifying those same songs for the modern rock idiom.
Building upon that concept, the pair zeroed in on songs that dealt with one specific place and time -- that is, England during and immediately after World War I. As Anthems Before the Fall, the song cycle was originally recorded for BBC Radio's My Kind of Folk in August 1968; a year later, and with that initial 28-minute vision appended by a handful of songs drawn from elsewhere within the Collins' repertoire, Anthems in Eden was re-recorded for Harvest Records, an early indication of that label's own brief effort to investigate British progressive music in all its strains and varieties.
Shirley Collins herself today regards the second side of the album, the unrelated folk songs, with some unease -- they do not fit with the concept, and detract from it somewhat. The side-long "A Song-Story Medley," however, is peerless, as Munrow's so-called "natural orchestra" of crumhorns, sackbuts, cornetts, and rackets traces a landscape where "the maypole, which [was] once the centre of so many village greens, was replaced by the memorial stone."
It is a haunting piece of music, the instrumentation delightfully understated, at the same time appearing to emphasise all the emotion, heartbreak, and hope that Shirley Collins' own lovely voice conveys. Her version of the oft-recorded "Our Captain Cried," midway through the cycle, is certainly all but definitive, while the "random selection of material" that makes up the second half of the album also boasts its fair share of beauties including a stunning take on the Incredible String Band's "God Dog"
Side 1:
A Song-Story
Side 2:
Rambleaway
Ca' The Yowes
God Dog
Bonny Cuckoo
Nellie The Milkmaid
Gathering Rushes In The Month Of May
The Gower Wassail
LABELS: EXCELLENT
Clean, unmarked labels - light/moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: VERY GOOD+
Both surfaces retain their original deep glossy sheen with light marks but nothing of any major significance
VINYL Audio: VERY GOOD+ / EXCELLENT
Plays extremely well throughout - no scratches - some low-level surface and light background ticks noted but nothing I found in the slightest intrusive - a very quiet, considered record and an absolute classic of the genre - very critically graded and very highly recommended
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Fine example - deep gloss to the front laminate - clean, unmarked inner surfaces - all edges are sharp with all spine text clear and bold
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