Monday, December 05, 2005

Heron - Yellow Roses


Heron - Yellow Roses

...From their first self-titled album, released in 1970 on Dawn Records (an imprint of Pye, specializing mostly in prog), a charming slab of British Isles folk that bears no trace of the braying donkey-like vocals that marred other similar albums from The Incredible String Band (a village drama teacher lending her vocal skills on those album cuts, perhaps?) et al, and possesses forward-thinking production and instrumentation that allow the album to age quite handsomely. According to lore, this album was recorded in the middle of a field: bird-sounds!

The group re-united last year, releasing a couple of albums and performing in England, but I haven't had the chance to listen to them. Relaxx Records is run by Heron member Steve Jones, and albums are available for order from his website, and there's a film titled In A Field Of Their Own documenting their return to performing music again.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

holy shit, that is seriously one of the most beautiful songs i have heard in a long minute. good looking out, i look foward to exlporing heron's catalogue thanks to you, goldenkixx

Anonymous said...

who are you ? i thought i was the only one in vancouver who had found this. so gorgeous.

Jay Watts III said...

Uhh, just some dude...I left Vancouver a couple of years ago, I live in Montreal now.

Anonymous said...

just found your comments jay...we recorded most of our stuff out of doors in preference to studios - the birds just sang along for free