Winterlight "Hope Dies Last". This is such a beautiful record. Ulrich Schnauss fans would appreciate. Perfect for summer days, ironically.
Cheers Church Puddle, will be investigating this album, and right now listening online to and liking
Your Wings Make You Fly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qWxdh7Hm7c"There is a long tradition of pastoral music capturing a quintessential Englishness, running from Vaughan Williams through the English folk tradition to more recent names like Robert Wyatt and Talk Talk. Further down this line you’ll find Epic45.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFeaAWBzt4 Thanks for posting Herbert, I really enjoyed the track, so much so I've forwarded the link to a friend. The suggestion of a popular/alternative music with an elusive 'Englishness' conjuring up a faraway avenue of a pastoral land has captured my imagination since my youth, its an ideal that really strikes an emotional chord, not sure why its so potent, seeing as I'm Scottish, and nor was I exposed much to either classical or folk music while growing up, but in that passage from youth to adulthood John's
Garden album was entirely to blame for consolidating forever a deep-rooted feeling for some lost green place.
Came back on a long distance bus journey last night and treated myself to a listen of the new Wooden Shjips album
West, no secret that I'm a huge fan of both this band and mainman Ripley Johnson and his other band Moon Duo, and
West is another winner for me. Was posting a youtube link to a friend and I spotted an amusing comment below the video by someone called 'cubangigolo' -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MVqfii6Fhcquote:- "alt-country garage rock with a hint of John Foxx" !!!
hey, I want to meet this cubangigolo!