Fantasia Lindum [Import]

Amazing Blondel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 16, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Edsel Records UK
• ASIN: B0000011VR
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #736,641 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fantasia Lindum: Prelude And Theme/Song: Swifts, Swains And Leafy Janes/Dance: Jig Upon Jig...

2. To Ye

3. Safety In God Alone

4. Two Dances: Almaine/Bransle 'For My Lady's Delight'

5. Three Seasons Almaine

6. Siege Of Yaddlethorpe

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonders never cease, January 3, 1999

By 

Robert A. Hilliard (Kenilworth, New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fantasia Lindum (Audio CD)

Working in a Honolulu record store in 1972, I was browsing the classical stacks, when I stumbled across three hippies, sitting for a portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn with the HUGEST great dane I had ever seen. Says I to myself, "this be not classical or I'm darned to heck" (or something to that effect). Acquiring same, I went home that evening and beheld John David Gladwin's portrait of his Lincolnshire home in Fantasia Lindum. Lutes, recorders, theroboe and krummhorns, the usual make up of early music consorts, combined with bagpipes, Appalachian dulcimers and angelic harmonies transported me from Polynesia to Olde England and nearly thirty years later, it is still able to reproduce the effect. This record is stupendous!! I would have a hard time giving 5 stars out to any disk, perfectionist that I am, but, if you are open minded about musical styles and are ready for a rare treat, bust loose of that $18.00 or so and buy this album. When you've listened to it several times, treat yourself to England, Blondel's third. It really is a 5 star... transcendent!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So English, so perfect, August 28, 2002

By 

Steven (Alpharetta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fantasia Lindum (Audio CD)

30 years and more ago I first saw Amazing Blondel - wonderful entertainment, bawdy jokes and strangely shaped instruments (no rudeness intended). Hearing their stuff today it's timeless and uniquely beautiful. I wonder in hope whether the England they conjure up ever existed.
Listen carefully to the words and above all enjoy the double-entendres and the odd juxtaposition of the words.
There's been nothing like them before or since, and this is probably their best album. They're the best thing England has offered the world since the Wellington boot. If they have another comeback tour, I'll see you there.