Restoration [Import]

Amazing Blondel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Transatlantic Record
• ASIN: B00000IJQB
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #565,411 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Benedictus Es Domine

2. Praeludium In D

3. Highwayman

4. Fugue

5. Cawdor And Widdershins

6. Aubaird

7. Love Lies Bleeding

8. Edagio

9. Sir John in Love Again

10. Interlude

11. Road To Sedgemoor

12. Cawdor Revisited

Editorial Reviews

Amazing Blondel are an English acoustic progressive folk band, consisting of Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott. They released a number of LPs for Island Records in the early 1970s. They are sometimes categorised as Psych folk or as Medieval folk rock, but their music was much more a reinvention of Renaissance music, based around the use of period instruments such as lutes and recorders.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Would call it gothic if it wasn't so baroque, December 29, 1999

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Maja Ilisch (Aachen) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Restoration (Audio CD)

This seems to be one of thease recordings you either love or hate. All I knew of Amazing Blondels early works before I bought this one was their old album »Evensong«, which contains some songs I absolutely like, and when I saw they had reunited and got »Restoration«, I thought they had develloped in a nice way. I don't like all of the new songs, but two of them - »Highwayman« and »Road to Sedgemoor« are so great that they are worth bying the whole CD. The music may seem to be a little bit to heavy, meaning pompous, inflated, and there are some wonderful weird note in »Sedgemoor« that surely will not please everyone - in a way, it's like gothic music (=music for people who consider themselves goths), only it's baroque. I like it. And in any case, it's worth a try.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Blondel never cease to amaze., October 9, 2004

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HLS (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Restoration (Audio CD)

The earliest reviewer is far too harsh. Amazing Blondel's 70's work (Evensong, Fantasia Lindum, and England) is so beautiful it makes one want to sing along and celebrate life and nature. This reunion work is equally beautiful but in a quieter, more contemplative way. The musicianship and songwriting are excellent. It just misses 5 stars for lack of a standout track, although "Benedictus Es Domine" and "Cawdor and Widdershins" come close. I very much wish they would record again. 4.5 stars.

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Blondel reunites - they shouldn't have bothered, July 24, 1999

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glenn "glenn" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Restoration (Audio CD)

First of all, the review above from Dirty Linen doesn't refer to this album. This is a new studio album recorded in 1997 - the band's first album with John Gladwin in about 22 years. Anyway, it's absolutely awful. The songs are meandering and unfocused, nothing like the marvelous stuff they were doing 25 years ago. If you're a fan of their vintage music, stay away from this one!