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  • Format: CD
  • Label: Cherry Red
  • Genre: Psychedelic

Between 1968 and 1974, amateur songwriters, musicians and home taping enthusiasts Peter Howell and John Ferdinando – aka H & F Recordings – retreated to their makeshift home studio in East Sussex to mastermind a series of privately-issued albums that were attributed to semi-fictitious groups such as Ithaca and Agincourt.

A Game For All Who Know: The H & F Recordings Box gathers together all four albums and adds an unreleased-at-the-time fifth, the Friends LP Fragile, which was abandoned at acetate stage after Howell accepted an invitation in 1974 to join the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on a full-time basis.

Taken from the original master tapes, and with a lavish booklet that features a new 7000-word essay on their activities, fresh interview quotes and previously unpublished photos, A Game For All Who Know constitutes the final, definitive word on a fascinating and hugely collectable body of work.

Track Listing:

    DISC ONE

    ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS:

    PETER HOWELL / JOHN FERDINANDO

    • ALICE THEME
    • MARCH OF THE CHESSMAN
    • JABBERWOCKY
    • DANCE OF THE TALKING FLOWERS
    • ALICE’S TRAIN JOURNEY
    • THROUGH LOOKING GLASS WOOD
    • DUM AND DEE
    • THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
    • ALICE MEETS THE KNIGHTS
    • A-SITTING ON A GATE
    • HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALICE
    • WHOSE DREAM?

    DISC TWO

    TOMORROW COME SOMEDAY

    PETER HOWELL / JOHN FERDINANDO

    • TITLE THEME
    • SOMEONE LIKE YOU
    • MARCH OF THE CIVIL SERVANTS
    • BLUEBOTTLE STRIPE
    • SETTING SUN
    • ON LOCATION
    • EVERYTHING HAS ITS PLACE
    • FISHING
    • TOMORROW COME SOMEDAY
    • LOVE THEME
    • HONESTY
    • WINDFALL WOOD

    DISC THREE

    FLY AWAY: AGINCOURT

    • WHEN I AWOKE
    • THOUGH I MAY BE DREAMING
    • GET TOGETHER
    • JOY IN THE FINDING
    • GOING HOME
    • ALL MY LIFE
    • MIRABELLA
    • TAKE ME THERE
    • LISA
    • DAWN
    • BARN OWL BLUES
    • KIND SIR
    • THROUGH THE EYES OF A LIFETIME (PARTS I-III)

    DISC FOUR

    A GAME FOR ALL WHO KNOW: ITHACA

    • JOURNEY (DESTRUCTION - REBIRTH - PATTERNS OF LIFE)

    • QUESTIONS (DID YOU KNOW - WILL WE BE ALIVE)
    • TIMES (SEVEN SEASONS - THE PATH - GIVEN TIME)
    • FEELINGS (LOOK AROUND - I WANT TO FEEL YOU)
    • DREAMS (STORY OF OUR TIME - BENEATH THIS SKY)
    • JOURNEY II (A GAME FOR ALL WHO KNOW)

    DISC FIVE

    FRAGILE: FRIENDS

    • YOU NEED FRIENDS

    • A TALE OF YOUR LIFE
    • SUMMER SUNDAY BLUES
    • ONE SWEET DAY
    • MEMORIES
    • LONELY ROAD
    • MORNING
    • COME INSIDE
    • TAKE A WALK
    • RIVER SONG
    • ONCE IN A WINTER TOWN
    • TIME TO RUN