Amazing Blondel: “Three Seasons Almaine” (1971)
Amazing Blondel took their unique Classicist Renaissance blend a step further on 1971’s Fantasia Lindum LP than on the previous year’s Evensong.
The album’s title track was a 10-section, 20-minute suite (or fantasia) that comprised the album’s entire first side.
Harpsichord, recorder, lute, harmonium and dulcimer adorned lyrics about leafy lanes, lovers and lasses, woodsmen, ploughboys and verdant countrysides, sung in unapologetically English accents.
The phrase “baroque pop” is thrown around, even in this blog, to describe contemporary pop songs onto which is grafted some antique instrumentation.
Amazing Blondel deserves the description–like no other.
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