The Pentangle - Solomon's Seal [1972] [FLAC]

MOJO Magazine: Buried Treasure "Album That Time Forgot."

Artist: Pentangle
Release: Solomon's Seal
Discogs: 2724655
Released: 1972 / 2010-09-22
Label: Reprise Records / Sanctuary Records
Catalog#: MS 2100 / UICY-94646
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Japan
Style: Rock, Folk Rock

Tracklisting:

01. Sally Free And Easy (3:55)
02. The Cherry Tree Carol (2:57)
03. The Snows (3:43)
04. High Germany (3:15)
05. People On The Highway (4:46)
06. Willy O' Winsbury (6:50)
07. No Love Is Sorrow (2:41)
08. Jump, Baby, Jump (3:10)
09. Lady Of Carlisle (4:41)

Credits:

Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar: John Renbourn
Acoustic Guitar, Vocals: Bert Jansch
Coordinator [Artwork]: Daisuke Karitsuka
Coordinator [Artwork]: Takeshi Doke
Design [Cover]: Chris Ayliffe
Double Bass: Danny Thompson
Drums: Terry Cox
Management [Product Manager]: Naoki Shiokawa
Producer: Pentangle
Producer, Engineer: John Wood
Remastered By: Manabu Matsumura
Vocals: Jacqui McShee
Written-By: Traditional (2 to 4, 6, 9)

Before its reissue on Sanctuary in 2003, Solomon’s Seal was the forgotten Pentangle album. The band’s swan-song, recorded as the folk quintet were splintering, reviews at the time dismissed it as a lacklustre final bow and subsequent assessments tended to concur. But how many actually heard it? The initial vinyl pressing was limited and the tapes were thought lost for years, eventually turning up among a pile of boxes propping up John Renbourn’s harmonium. That it re-emerged in 2003, in the midst of new folk revival, was entirely fitting, as here was a Pentangle album that dispensed with the progressive genre-fiddling of earlier albums in favour of a midnight-clear sound that chimed perfectly with the sounds of Will Oldham, PG Six and the like. A mix of quietly spooked standards and road-weary originals, it’s a forlorn album, certainly; Jacqui McShee’s vocals on The Cherry Tree Carol and Willy O’ Winsbury are heavy with an ancient across-the-ages sadness while tracks like Danny and Bert’s composition No Love Is Sorrow reveal the melancholy, yet still-warm alchemy at the heart of this truly unique outfit.

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