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Basket Of Light

by: Pentangle

Release Date February 26, 2008
I've just been listening to my (previous release) copy of this album and it's excellent!. It gave me the opportunity to compare House Carpenter with Joan Baez (and Sweeney's Men) and it stands up magnificently. You have 6 days left to download their performance on Later via BBC iPlayer!

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Sweet Child

by: Pentangle

Release Date February 26, 2008
This could be Pentangle's best album - 'Basket of Light' is the only other contender, but this one has much more material on it.

The first disc was recorded live in 1968 and the second is from the studio. The live show is great, with a mix of folk standards, originals and instrumentals showing great dexterity and skill from all involved. Bert Jansch and John Renbourn's version of Mingus' 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' is a standout instrumental tune - very relaxing and melodic. The studio set is a strong album in its own right, with highlights (for me) being the guitar duel of 'In Time', the morality tale 'Sovay' and the grooving 'I've Got A Feeling', which borrows the chord sequence from Miles Davis' 'All Blues'.

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Solomon's Seal

by: Pentangle

Release Date February 26, 2008
Of all the Pentangle albums, this is by far my favourite - if you could add Cruel Sister & Let No Man Steal Your Thyme to it, it would be perfect! Sally Free & Easy is sublime, and the only song that betters it in my mind is Willy O'Winsbury (the tune of which will be familiar to Fairport fans as it was used to set the words of Farewell Farewell to). The only song I'm not too keen on is the Lady of Carlisle, but then you can't have everything!

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Cruel Sister

by: Pentangle

Release Date February 26, 2008
This is a very enjoyable Pentangle album, although to be honest I find Jack Orion a rather drawn out & dull affair. I'd rather a couple more tracks in the vein of Cruel Sister & When I Was In My Prime. However, it's well worth adding to one's collection for the other tracks alone; it was a brave departure for Pentangle from their usual fare, and it's great that they persued musical integrity over fame. This is certainly an album that deserves a lot more praise than it has ever had.

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Light Flight - The Anthology

by: Pentangle

Release Date February 26, 2008
I saw Bert Jansch live last year and thought I really ought to check Pentangle out. This is a great compilation for someone new to the band. Unlike Fairport who were a bit "west coast pop" in a folky way, Pentangle were a very "jazzy" folk band. You can hear it in the arrangements and the guitar solos. Jacqui McShee also has a lovely voice.

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Reflection

by: Pentangle

Release Date February 26, 2008
I saw Bert Jansch live last year and thought I really ought to check Pentangle out. This is a great compilation for someone new to the band. Unlike Fairport who were a bit "west coast pop" in a folky way, Pentangle were a very "jazzy" folk band. You can hear it in the arrangements and the guitar solos. Jacqui McShee also has a lovely voice.

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The Time Has Come 1967-1973

by: Pentangle

Release Date June 30, 2008
I saw Bert Jansch live last year and thought I really ought to check Pentangle out. This is a great compilation for someone new to the band. Unlike Fairport who were a bit "west coast pop" in a folky way, Pentangle were a very "jazzy" folk band. You can hear it in the arrangements and the guitar solos. Jacqui McShee also has a lovely voice.

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The Pentangle

by: Pentangle

Release Date February 26, 2008
so you've got bert jansch one of the greatest folk guitarists or guitarists of all time and john renbourne the most immatated guitarist of his time,jacqui mcshee who i can only discribe as the beth orton of her time (she also shares likeness' with nico from the velvet underground), and danny thompson on bass and terry cox on drums and what do you get?...possibly the greatest fusions of folk, jazz, blues of all time, possibly even one of the greatest albums of its time. This record is quintessentially sixties. If you like your blues, your folk, your jazz, buy this album. I love it and you will too, i can almost guarantee.

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Pentangling

by: Bert Jansch John Renbourn Pentangle

Release Date February 26, 2008
Great collection of songs. Don't know if its just Amazon's batch but there is a fault with this set the songs that should be on disc one are on disc three and the songs that should be on disc three are on disc one

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Open the Door

by: Pentangle

Release Date March 31, 2008
Glad to see this reissued along with "In the Round." These '80's albums are somewhat unjustly overlooked. There's a nice 'nature' theme to several songs, & adept arrangement of Milton Nasimento's "Mother Earth" (if Jansch's voice very different). Mike Piggott rather different sound than John Renbourn, but he brings his own abilities. Even the 'baroque folk' instrumental, "Dolphin" sweetly does recall earlier Pentangle instrumentals, if perhaps not quite the quiet assurance JR brought to these. MacShee's singing is very good throughout, if lyrically maybe some songs not quite so compelling. "Sad Lady" though is very interesting, cool sexy underated Jacqui song, with nearly a bit of 'Latin' vibe in arrangement. And some other 'near' standard Pentangle ... Read More: