LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Label: Honest Jon's

Absolutely sweeping, grandiose baroque-folk like a newly-minted Pentangle or Fairport Convention, but with strange keyboard/horn arrangements, & sometimes thunderous percussion. Will Oldham - Jesus fucking shit! These jamz claw so hard at the tatties below methinks the Lord misnamed them, having intended to say trembling BALLS. Carbeth is the hotly-tipped debut of a new new-folk outfit masterminded by protean drummer Alex Neilson, one of the UK's leading young improvisers. From the ashes of Scatter, a Glasgow-based collective which long anticipated the free-folk phenomenon, emerges a new song-based venture, Trembling Bells. Having served apprenticeships with some uniquely talented songwriters (Bonnie Prince Billy, Current 93, Alasdair Roberts, Baby Dee, Red Krayola, Six Organs of Admittance, Josephine Foster amongst them) Neilson sets out with the group to reanimate the hidden, mythic landscapes of Yorkshire and Glasgow (in particular) via a love of canonical rock, Earlie Musik and traditional folk. Featuring the diverse musical talents of Medieval Music scholar and psychedelic siren, Lavinia Blackwall, Venusian bluesman, Ben Reynolds, Lucky Luke progenitor Simon Shaw, plus trombonist George Murray, and viola player Aby Vuillamy from Scatter and the Bill Wells Group.

Track Listing

• A1: I Listed All Of The Velvet Lessons
• A2: I Took To You (Like Christ To Wood)
• A3: When I Was Young
• A4: The End Is The Beginning Born Knowing
• A5: Summer's Waning
• B1: Willows Of Carbeth
• B2: Your Head Is The House Of Your Tongue
• B3: Garlands Of Stars
• B4: Seven Years A Teardrop