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The Shepherd's Calendar

by The Blossom

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Carsten Pieper
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Carsten Pieper Clearly a labour of love, a wonderful acoustic folk rock (rock? Well, not really...) album. I completely agrree with Sven B Schreiber's and Paul Rote's comments on this.

(And again, this is another find from Sven's amazing collection ;-) ) Favorite track: Song of the hare.
Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs) Absolutely stunning folk rock that sounds easy-going at first listen, but actually has a great depth - both musically and thematically. Favorite track: The melancholy shepherd.
paul rote
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paul rote An absolutely amazing work of art !
Fairytale folk !
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The album title, and the structure of twelve songs one for each month of the year, are inspired by Edmund Spenser’s "The Shepheardes Calender" (1579), and the themes of the songs are similarly pastoral. Like Spenser’s poems, they seem to treat of rustic concerns, the animals of the field, the lives and loves of shepherds and the beauties of the English countryside. But the songs are all allegories and myths of love and hate, faith and folly, joy and misery, magic, merriment and murder. "Song of the hare", for example, describes a great battle between two mighty animals and the antics of the beasts around them, while "Lord of the marsh" is a story-song in the tradition of the "Child ballads", telling of the abduction of a girl by a magical lord disguised as a pedlar, and its aftermath. Other songs touch on the mysteries of memory and the fleeting of time. The lyrics of the songs are included in a thirty-two-page booklet issued with the CD, illustrated with a selection of beautiful images stolen from books of the late romantic period (around 1820–1850).

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released May 1, 2015

All songs written and performed by Paul W. Nash. With Alison Felstead on backing vocals and bass, Lucile Deslignères on guest-fiddle on "Rust upon the rose" and Katherine Cosin on guest-triangle on "Rust upon the rose".

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