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Battle of the Birds - Anthony Phillips & Harry Williamson
TRACKLIST: 1. The Wren & Raven 2. Raven Flight 3. The Magic Bundle 4. The
Promise 5. The First Test 6. The Second Test 7. Wed The Giants Daughter 8.
The First Spell 9. The Last Spell 10. From Rags To Riches 11. Auburn Mary
12. The Choice 13. Sombre 14. Flight 15. Twilight
Cast of thousands includes...Anthony Phillips, on guitar, Harry Williamson
on guitar, Gilli Smyth narration and vocals, Didier Malherbe on flute. The
Battle of the Birds is a traditional Celtic tale in the grand style.
Enchantment, spells, a Giant, magical birds and a host of extras star in
this ancient story of the power of true love ascendant over brute force. The
tale starts with a battle between birds and animals, but soon reveals that
the winning bird, the Raven, is an enchanted human, who gives the king's son
a mysterious bundle. The plot becomes multifaceted, and evolves in many
unexpected directions, till the surprise ending, which has its own surreal
and symbolic logic to it. The images conjured by the combination of
narrative, vignettes and magical music provide pace to a compelling story,
and as a postscript there will be a few of the earlier pieces, slightly
remixed, as instrumentals. Musically this piece evolved from recordings in
open tuned 6 & l2 string guitars made by Harry Williamson and Anthony
Phillips at Send Barnes, in Surrey, in l976-8. During those sessions some
simple orchestration was added, oboe...Simon Phillips, violin and
cello...Carl & Dorothy...In '8I at Ox's Cross Harry transferred the original
4 track masters onto 8 track. Gilli Smyth, who had edited the Battle of the
Birds story, narrated it in her own special way, taking one of the character
parts as well, and the people below recorded other parts.
Gilli Smyth...............Auburn Mary
Tasmin Smyth..............The First Queen
Harry Williamso....The Raven, the First King's Son
Orlando Allen.............The Mouse & the Hoodies
Bee Williamson..The Cooks son, Mice, and Hoodies
Taliesin Allen.....The Second young son, & Hoodies
Aardvark...................The Shoemaker
Helen.......................The Shoemaker's wife
Dave the Wave..........The Giant and Guest
Clare..........................the Auburn Mary Song
Everyone around........the guests at the wedding
While visiting from France to rehearse for a Mother Gong tour, Didier
Malherbe added his unique touch to the whole, flutes, piccolo and saxophones
were layered and interleaved throughout the four movements. Jan Emerick
added interesting slavic harmonic twists to the third movement using
acoustic guitar. Hugh Hopper added some bass, and Guy Evans percussed using
paper drums in particular for the giant's footsteps. The master reels were
quickly mixed onto cassette, and for a short time cassettes of this very
rough mix circulated via Otter songs/GAS. Now 25 years later the original
recordings have been re-mixed and lightly edited to create this CD. Some of
the music has been rearranged to fit the story better...

 Battle of the Birds - Anthony Phillips & Harry Williamson
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Rotters' porca miseria! :-PPP E, magari, abbonati a Dusk
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Sai che sono smemorato. Mi fai un ripassino? sono tentatissimo di prenderlo,
ma non vorrei che fosse la solita cazzata per attirare i fans....

 ma non vorrei che fosse la solita cazzata per attirare i fans....
non ho l'album, so solo che è la ristampa di un lavoro uscito nel 1981 solo
su nastro. Cmq ecco quanto scrive Giammetti su Dusk: "... si utilizzano le
registrazioni di "Gypsy suite" di Harry e Ant sulle quali Didier Malherbe ha
aggiunto delle parti di flauto. Questa musica funge da musica di sotto fondo
alla narrazione della storia celtica di "The battle of the birds" che viene
narrata dalla vocalist dei Gong Gilli Smith. Anche Harry e d altri amici
contribuiscono a recitare alcuni personaggi della storia..."
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In ogni caso l'ho appena preso. Qualunque cosa avessi detto ben
difficilmente avrei potuto resistere.....

 difficilmente avrei potuto resistere.....
facci sapere le tue impressioni
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Ti pare che potrň astenermi dal farlo? :-) Non appena arriva sarň
prontissimo. Tra l'altro assieme a quello ho preso anche Blueprint di Keith
Tippett che era un po' che stavo cercando. Speriamo arrivino in fretta.....