Avocet Revisited LP Vinyl NEW 2017

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Fulmar – Edwyn Collins & Carwyn EllisCurlew – Modern StudiesGoosander – Alasdair RobertsGolden Plover – Trembling BellsLP Single sleeve, 12″ 45rpm EP. ‘Avocet Revisited’ is a four track EP, commissioned by Earth recordings as a companion piece to Bert Jansch’s 1979 avian-themed masterstroke ‘Avocet’. Again drawing inspiration from the resplendence of birds native to British waters (Bert himself was a keen ornithologist), Earth invited this quartet of artists to each choose a species that particularly speaks to them, and base a track around it. The results have been universally graceful, evocative, and majestic – much like the creatures themselves. Fulmar – Drifting low and gliding high, the flight patterns of this gull-like creature are echoed in Edwyn Collins and Carwyn Ellis’s paean to the bird that spends most of its life airborne. Part waltz, part lullaby, ‘Fulmar’ is exquisite in its simplicity, with Carwyn’