Pentangle

Pentangle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 26, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Line
• ASIN: B000002RJ3
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,336,285 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking synthesis, May 20, 2000

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Audun Myskja - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pentangle (Audio CD)

The Pentangle`s debut album was hugely influential in its amalgam of folk, blues, jazz, driven by a flurry of creativity, witnessed in the instrumentals on the album, like "Bells". Jacqui McShee is in top form on this album, using her strong voice more or less like an instrument. It is one of the mysteries of popular music how she later became your ordinary folk voice. The interweaving guitar lines of Jansch and Renbourn are the stuff of legend, and the sheer inventiveness of their playing together on this album has seldom been equalled. But Danny Thompson`s double bass is a secret weapon on this album, drawing influences from Mingus and Ron Carter into the folk idiom, to produce bottom lines of power and beauty, making "Thyme" much more than an aulde folk song. To me, it has been one of the most important albums of all time, and Pentangle never equalled on later albums the freshness and originality they displayed on their debut.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Get extended version instead, September 19, 2002

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kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pentangle (Audio CD)

This is Pentagngle's first album, and it sounds like it. It is short, stark and the musical range is limited. The CD is 33 minutes long. There are 7 songs and 1 instrumental. Most of the songs are just over 2 minutes long.

The is minimalist music. Sometimes it will be just a single acoustic instrument, just playing a simple rhythm, with no emotion. Jaqui MacShay's voice is flat. As the group matured on later albums, the music would become much richer and there would be more depth to the songs. My favorite album is Basket of Light.

There is a newer version of this album with 6 bonus tracks that add 20 minutes to the disk. The bonus material is better than the original, with the group showing more emotion and much more fire to the vocals.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE RIGHT BUY, May 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pentangle (Audio CD)

I have them all and i have to tell ya that SWEET CHILD and CRUEL SISTER are the ones to get. No b.s. on these dics.Only straight true music.No pop wanderings{not that thats bad!}The first albums can't touch these two