Barafundle

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EWM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #342,482 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Diamond Dew

2. The Barafundle Bumbler

3. Starmoonsun

4. Patio Song

5. Better Rooms...

6. Heywood Lane

7. Pen Gwag Glas

8. Bola Bola

9. Cursed, Coined & Crucified

10. Sometimes the Father Is the Son

11. Meirion Wyllt

12. Wizard & The Lizard

13. Miniature Kingdoms

14. Dark Night

15. Hwyl Fawr I Pawb

16. Wordless Song

17. Young Girls & Happy Endings [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Second only to Tatay, July 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Barafundle (Audio CD)

I adore this album, and so will you if you love beautiful, gentle, lilting tunes set to offbeat 60's-type pop, and played not only on traditional rock instruments but also folksy medieval-sounding ones. I don't know if the fact that the songs are in large part in Welsh attracts you, either, but it does me. The way Patio Song merges seamlessly from English into Welsh makes the song that much more fun. I cannot stress enough how purely BEAUTIFUL these songs are and endlessly creative as well.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Prog Pop, November 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Barafundle (Audio CD)

For an old timer like me who listened to alot of (gasp!) progressive rock in the 1970's, this band is quite a find. They've dispensed with most of the self-indulgent tendencies that marred much of the output from that era, and there isn't a trace of bombast in their music. What they do have here on "Barafundle" is a wonderfully melodic, whimsical music that blends together influences like the Beatles, Beach Boys, Canterbury progressive like Soft Machine and Caravan, and the Incredible String Band. The songs, while concise and always between 2 and 4 minutes or so in length, feature unconventional structures with frequent shifts in meter and key. The instrumentation is eclectic as well, with tons of keyboards like organ, moog, and harmonium, plus jew's harp, violin, and various guitars. There is a playfulness and sense of experimentation that combine with some gorgeous melodies to make it a very enjoyable, heady listen. There's nothing at all retro about GZM's music, but it does often harken back to the early days of progressive rock.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHOOOOOO!! Total, undisputed DELIGHT!!!, May 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Barafundle (Audio CD)

Ok, granted, I'm still in the orgasmic throws of those magical first 5 or 6 listens of a solidly great album, but discovering Barafundle is one of the best things to happen to me this year. The many influences and references are minced so finely they are (thank god) not just another group where "Beatles' or "Brian Wilson" figure primarily in their reveiws. A total treat for the senses and cannot think on where to begin naming it's stellar moments - the joyfull kick into Welsh crooning on "Patio Song", the gorgeous "Sometimes the father..", the insane climbs & desents of "Miniature Kingdom" - I love it all, and any album that can make me dance when I'm lying flat on my back in bed with the headphones on is OK in my book! Cant wait to hear more of them...