Amazing Blondel – Fantasia Lindum
(Island Records 1971 ILPS9156)
Matrix No’s: A2/B1 – UK Pressing
Textured Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners, some ringwear & light creasing and mark in top left corner
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Amazing Blondel are an English acoustic progressive folk band, containing Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott. They released a number of LPs for Island Records in the early 1970s. They are sometimes categorised as psychedelic folk or as medieval folk rock, but their music was much more a reinvention of Renaissance music, based around the use of period instruments such as lutes and recorders.
Fantasia Lindum was an album released by the band Amazing Blondel in 1971. It featured the style of music which they described as “pseudo-Elizabethan/Classical acoustic music sung with British accents”. The album title is taken from the musical sequence which makes up the first side of the album: a fantasia is a free musical composition with its roots in the art of improvisation; Lindum is the Latin name for the city of Lincoln.
The dog which appears on the album cover was Terry Wincott’s great dane, called Jacob.
Track listing
| Side one | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | “Fantasia Lindum”
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20:16 |
| Side two | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | “To Ye” | 3:28 |
| 2. | “Safety In God Alone” | 4:23 |
| 3. | “Two Dances
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2:01 |
| 4. | “Three Seasons Almaine” | 3:37 |
| 5. | “The Siege of Yaddlethorpe” | 2:30 |
Musicians
- John David Gladwin – second lute, lead vocals, double bass, theorbo
- Terence Alan Wincott – recorders, vocals, piano, crumhorn, harpsichord, harmonium, other woodwind
- Edward Baird – first lute, vocals, glockenspiel, dulcimer, guitar
- Jim Capaldi – drums on “Siege of Yaddlethorpe”
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