Sumer Is Icumen in: Pagan Sound of British & Irish: Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966-1975
Sumer Is Icumen in: Pagan Sound of British & Irish: Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966-1975
Format: CD
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Artist: Sumer Is Icumen in: Pagan Sound of British & Irish
Label: Grapefruit
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929188303
Genre: Rock
Released in 2015, Grapefruit's 3-CD multi-artist British underground folk compilation Dust On The Nettles was widely praised, with a five-star review in The Times hailing it as "a delight from beginning to end". A long-overdue follow up to that set, Sumer Is Icumen In tightens the mesh by focusing on the point when traditional folksong and the burgeoning late Sixties counterculture collided, largely courtesy of seminal acts like the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention and Pentangle. As Steeleye Span's Martin Carthy commented at the time, the scene had a strong pagan feel, dark and elemental, and progressive folk bands like Dr. Strangely Strange, Comus and Third Ear Band (who performed with the druids in dawn solstice ceremonies at Glastonbury Tor) were active at the same time as folklorists like Mr. Fox pair Bob & Carole Pegg and fellow husband-and-wife team Dave & Toni Arthur, whose commitment to the cause saw them dancing naked at a coven led by 'King of the Witches', the notorious Alex Sanders. Showcasing all of the above names as well as a supporting cast that ranges from Mike Oldfield and Marc Bolan to unsigned bands who recorded demos in a barn, Sumer Is Icumen In features four hours of Albion hymns ancient and modern, including three previously unreleased cuts. "Housed in a stylish clamshell box, it includes a 40-page booklet with track-by-track annotation, numerous band quotes and some very rare photos. The result is a secret glade in a darkly pagan woodland that's peppered with invocations of corn gods, wicker men, bright Phoebus and other non-Christian deities; magickal tales of daemons, sorcerers, false knights and faerie queens; the medieval England myths, legends and traditions of the May Queen, John Barleycorn and the Green Man; paeans to the natural world and the rhythm of the passing seasons; fables of sanctuary stones, scarecrows and buried villages alongside dread stories of purgatory, sacrifice, rape, bestiality and murder.
Tracks:
1.1 Lark Rise - Third Ear Band
1.2 Corn Rigs - Magnet
1.3 John Barleycorn - Traffic
1.4 Sanctuary Stone - Midwinter
1.5 The Keys of Canterbury - Vulcan's Hammer
1.6 The Wood-Gathering Man - the Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band
1.7 Twa Corbies - Steeleye Span
1.8 Lovely Joan - Folkal Point
1.9 Canon Dale - the Strawbs (Alternative Version)
1.10 White Horse - Kevin Coyne
1.11 Yorric - Meic Stevens
1.12 Lyke-Wake Dirge - the Young Tradition
1.13 Swan in the Evening - Amber
1.14 Minerva - Synanthesia
1.15 The Parting Glass - the Minor Birds
1.16 Virgin Childe - Parameter
1.17 The Sapphire - Carolanne Pegg
1.18 Cabin on the Clifftop - Dry Heart
1.19 Winter Passes - Mighty Baby
1.20 On Horseback - Mike Oldfield
2.1 Tam Lin - Fairport Convention
2.2 Let No Man Steal Your Thyme - Gallery
2.3 False Knight on the Road - Tim Hart ; Maddy Prior
2.4 The Scarcrow - Lal Waterson (Demo Version)
2.5 Silver Man - Chimera
2.6 The White Hare - Shirley Collins ; the Albion Country Band
2.7 Mad Tom of Bedlam - Horden Raikes
2.8 The Song of the Healer - the Sallyangie
2.9 Lizard-Long-Tongue-Boy - Bridget St. John (Alternative Version)
2.10 Strings in the Earth and Air - Dr. Strangely Strange
2.11 Sorcerers - Jan Dukes de Grey
2.12 Green Grass - Dave ; Toni Arthur
2.13 Where's Your Master Gone? - Simon Finn
2.14 Nottamun Town - Oberon
2.15 The House Carpenter - Fresh Maggots
2.16 Hand in Hand - J. P. Sunshine
2.17 The Bite - Comus
2.18 Death - the Sun Also Rises
2.19 Winter - Tea ; Symphony
2.20 Autumn Lady Dancing Song - Principal Edwards' Magic Theatre
2.21 Summer's in - Anne Briggs
3.1 The Bells of Dunwich - Stone Angel
3.2 Cruel Sister - Pentangle
3.3 Witches Hat - Incredible String Band
3.4 Reynardine - Archie Fisher
3.5 The Poet and the Witch - Mellow Candle
3.6 Elfin Boy - Curved Air
3.7 Pretty Polly - Sweeney's Men
3.8 Three Ravens - Parke
3.9 Salisbury Plain - Green Man
3.10 Flodden Field - Spriguns of Tolgus
3.11 Geordie - the MacDonald Folk Group
3.12 The Queen of the Night - Michael Raven ; Joan Mills
3.13 Holsworthy Peter's Fair - George Deacon ; Marion Ross
3.14 Captain Wedderburn's Courtship - Staverton Bridge
3.15 Butterfly on the Shore - Shirley Kent
3.16 Eastern Spell - Marc Bolan
3.17 The Lark in the Morning - Heather, Adrian ; John
3.18 Scarborough Fair - the Coterie
3.19 Mendle - Mr. Fox
