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The Cirlce And The Blue Door (CD)
There is a magic place where folky warmth meets lurid technicolour horror, where progressive rock complexity and all out skull-crushing doom combines with classic songwriting to flesh out a sinister but romantic vision of twisted dreams and lurking threats hidden just out of view. That place dwells in the debut album by Purson. The Circle And The Blue Door finds the missing link between Pentangle and Pentagram, by way of David Bowies dream reality and The Beatles feel for the perfect melody. And while it owes a debt to front woman Rosie Cunninghams clear love of the late 60s and the early 70s, it is her poetic, evocative lyricism, tight song craft, sonorous vocal style and dedication to deep musicality that takes this wonderful album far beyond the waters of pastiche. There are not too many 21-year-olds out there who are familiar with the early 70s golden age of satanic flute rock, when bands like Black Widow and Monument terrified Middle England with slow yet ominous odes to the devil, all the while dressed like sociology lecturers from the Open University. But Rosie Cunningham has gone her own way from a young age. Being named after the great god of Hell, may evoke the colour-saturated English countryside of early 70s Hammer Horror movies, but they do so with Beatles-esque sophistication, baroque charm and minor key reflection.
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Specifications
Type: CD
Recorded: 2013
Release Date: 2013-04-29
Label: Rise Above Records
Country: Euro
Item No: RISECD152
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Track List
01 Wake Up Sleepy Head
02 The Contract
03 Spiderwood Farm
04 Sailor's Wife's Lament
05 Leaning On A Bear
06 Tempest And The Tide
07 Mavericks And Mystics
08 Well Spoiled Machine
09 Sapphire Ward
10 Rocking Horse
11 Tragic Catastrophe
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