Swaddling Songs

This album "Swaddling Songs," and the CD release, is quite an impressive album, and it has some of the most lovely and beautiful songs I've heard, and the two female vocalists just have wonderful and beautiful voices, and that being Alison Williams and Clodagh Simonds. There's some outstanding piano playing on this album, as well as good guitar work, but it's the great songs that really make this CD special. As their name suggests, their are some "mellow" songs, but the singing is just so wonderful and beautiful, and Alison Williams just has a fantastic voice. There's also some very up-tempo songs, and those are excellent as well. There's not one bad song on this album, and I can see why it's considered a classic and highly collectable for people that are looking for the original vinyl LP. The new CD called "The Virgin Prophet" is definitely worth getting to if you like Mellow Candle, and I highly recommend getting it, you won't be disappointed at all. I give this 5 stars, because it's truly a masterpiece in my opinion. I could listen to this over and over forever, it's that good. Glenn Signal Hill, CA USA

I love this music so much, I feel like I'm back at MREA Energy Fair or a music festival with love and Hippies of all ages.

A beautifully compiled box set with top quality components; excellent vinyl, booklet reflects great care taken, especially restoring some pictures that were obviously very distressed. A package that I quite honestly thought would never ever be offered. Brilliant.

Excellent playing, singing, recording, atmospherics, art... highly recommended

i also didn't like this record at first..i put on side A hoping for some acid-folk psych kind of stuff but that's not what this is at all--kind of straightforward hippie rock...a few days later i threw on side B and was blown away by the first 2 songs "reverend sisters" & the one right after that which is GREAT...both written by cloughdohghg or whatever her name is...then i warmed up to the rest..

Good Stuff!

Nice folk, rock album easy listening keeper

Just when I thought I'd found all the truly great albums, I find this one! I can only compare it to a combo of Fairport Convention and King Crimson. The seamless combo of folk rock, jazz, and classical is something that must be heard to even try to understand. They released this when I was 4 years old, and I just found it last week! I can't even come close to recommending this as highly as I'd like. Just a masterpiece!

Beeindruckendes Album. Die Songs "Feeling High" und "Tea with the Sun" sind leider nicht auf dieser Ausgabe von Esoteric Records mit dabei, obwohl sie laut Wikipedia als Bonus-Material bei einigen Versionen mit dabei sein sollen. Ich hoffe, daß Esoteric eines Tages die Sammlung "The Virgin Prophet" auch noch einmal herausbringt. Die Band hätte es verdient.

C'est un vrai bijou, chef d'oeuvre de l'acid-folk UK, passé inaperçu à l'époque. Les voix féminines ont une force qui rappelle Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) mais la musique est assez franchement British et on ne va pas s'en plaindre. Une vraie originalité d'écriture. Ces ré-éditions CD sont une bénédiction!

こんな商品が簡単に手に入るのはうれしいですね。とても満足です。

Tutto ok, grazie.

Like most people, I'm wary when someone says "Listen to this, you'll love it", but I am grateful to the friend who, knowing my fondness for Incredible String Band/Fairport/Steeleye etc loaned me a copy of "Swaddling Songs". After the first track I had to collect my eyebrows from the ceiling and my jaw from the floor. Forgive the hyperbole, suffice to say before the second track had finished I was online placing an order for my own copy of this terrific album. Its a stunner. It seems amazing to me that an album of such evident quality was largely ignored when it came out in 1972, especially as the aforementioned folk-rock groups were doing such big business back then. The music is tight, with Rush-like precision and drama in many of the instrumental passages. Baroque, folk, mystical and just plain wierd flourishes abound (all of which is fine by me), but the real eye-opener is the quality of the vocals. These two girls sing with individual brilliance and frequently breathtaking harmonies. Among the more gentle, reflective tracks "Reverend Sisters" and "Silver Song" are standouts, while "Dan the Wing", "Buy or Beware" and especially "Boulders on my Grave" are wild uptempo pieces delivered with great flair. The wole album is hugely entertaining, and yes, I do recommend it to anyone with an interest in classic folk-rock.