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Artist:	SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT
Title:	Songs Of Green Pheasant
Label:	FAT CAT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FAT 040CD

2005 release. "A lazy ear might peg the album down as another in an ever-burgeoning line of modern folk releases, yet in honesty its sphere of reference lies closer to an uneven lineage of singer/songwriters and dreampop imagineers that would include Butterfly Child, Talk Talk / Mark Hollis, Simon and Garfunkel, Flying Saucer Attack, Jewelled Antler Collective, Richard Youngs, and Galaxie 500. Written heavily under the influence of novelists Boris Pasternak and Hermann Hesse ('Knulp' directly references the title of one of his novels), the album makes use of a kind of rustic visual language and timeless scenarios, attempting to utilise simple formats (folk / lovesong) in order to say complex things. Whilst the lyrics retain a slightly opaque audibility, what imagery does seep through speaks of of nature, the elements, and the universality of basic human experiences like love / hate / death all shot through with a sense of melancholic nostalgia."

Artist:	SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT
Title:	Gyllyng Street
Label:	FAT CAT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FAT 061CD

2007 release. "Coming exactly two years after the release of an eponymous debut album, the gorgeous Gyllyng Street is the third release by Songs Of Green Pheasant. Marking a departure from the beautiful 4-track folk-haze of the debut album, Gyllyng Street is Songs Of Green Pheasant's most adventurous and accomplished work to date, and sees the artist take a big step forwards whilst retaining the isolated individuality that marks them out as a truly unique voice in the contemporary out-folk / post-rock / etc. milieu. Retaining something of the cloudy, dreamlike and intimate cocooning space of its predecessor, Gyllyng Street moves further away from folk song-form towards a richly atmospheric and ambitious modus, heavily tinged with the influence of early '90s indie. The means of production remain modest, but the thinking is widescreen."

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