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DEAR FRIENDS, AFTER RECEIVING FIVE NOTIFICATIONS FROM DMCA, I HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE MY BLOGS, SO ALL THIS SHARING-LINK ACTIVITY IS FINISHED. YOU CAN READ THE COMPLETE TEXT I POSTED ON MY PILOT BLOG - - > HERE

FOR THE MANY MANY PEOPLE WHO KEEP ASKING FOR RECORDS: I'M SORRY, I CAN'T FULFIL THEIR REQUESTS, IT ALL CAME TO A POINT THAT'S 'S TOO DANGEROUS FOR ME. I HAD TO REMOVE THE 97% OF THE ALBUMS I HAD POSTED ON THE SERVERS. The few exceptions are: the bootlegs and the few studio albums authorized directly by the copyright owners.

FOR ALL THE OTHERS, Cyrus (who wants to buy some of my vynil records), Maxoom, Caroalt, Jiro, Trolley Dolly, Phil (who wants my copies of the COB albums), Marnie (who wants my copy of the original "Ptooff"), XJ64, Antiamnbient, Arman, Nicolas, Rick, etc etc , please WRITE ME AGAIN WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, OKAY?

Last: I RE-UPPED THE FOREST'S LIVE ALBUM FOR THREE PEOPLE WHO ASKED FOR IT, SO IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.


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No pretention of completeness in mind, this blog sees the light with the idea of filling a good number of gaps here and there, where I notice that certain music that I particularly like is missing in other blogs. Therefore my intent is avoiding posting albums that are present elsewhere. Exceptions are: where I'm reported of dirty record scans, incomplete reissues often remixed and unfaithful to the originals, or when I can offer higher bitrate scans, or also when posting a title is necessary for the completeness of a thread or a discography.


Here you won't find links leading to downloads, whenever the "Link" is featured, the album is available, otherwise, it means "work in progress".... If you want an album, please write me a request in the comment section including your email address and where in the world you visit this blog from.

...and if you don't get an answer from me after a certain time, please write again - I'm sorry, but it's not rare that some emails get lost in outer space, unfortunately...

After seeing that certain people keep using some of my pictures (which are not first class, I admit it, but nevertheless were made originally by me) for their blogs, without mentioning me as the owner, I decided to apply a "watermark" on some of them.

Thanks for existing

Thanks for existing

21 May 2010

LITTLE FISH - Hertfordshire folk songs (Plant Life, 1977)

A small but FABULOUS masterpiece

Lorna Blythe - vocals, guitar ,dulcimer, flute
Philip Milner - guitar, bouzouki, bass, vocals
An extended play with four musical gems; for years I've been searching after possible further records of this man-n-woman duo, but without success: as far as I know this is the only existing work of Little Fish. Among the songs, "John Rand" tells the real story of a beggarman found dead in a field by Ickleford, in 1706. People didn't know whom he was and angry that "he had to die just here within our parish bounds", they rolled his corpse through a hedge that bordered on their land, to avoid the expenses of a funeral.  In the closer village, Holwell, the people decided instead to give him sepulture, though they never saw him before, but at a certain point "they found a pocket in his coat and there was hid within a will which left his worldly goods to those who buried him"...
With huge surprise, it was discovered that Rand actually owned a fortune, warehouses, iron foundry, 28 houses, cottages and fields, all donated for the purpose of "clothing the needy and feeding the poor".  The song is one of the most beautiful I ever heard.
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  1. PhilJune 29, 2010 at 5:09 AM

    Dear Contessa,
    I would love to hear this EP when you upload it, thanks. I have never heard of these two singers either.
    Cheers from Adelaide.

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  2. KitJuly 8, 2010 at 5:38 PM

    Dear Contessa,
    I also would love to hear this EP. I just discovered your website...drawn to it by interest in another of your links (Dave Van Ronk: No Dirty Names). Thanks for such an interesting and informative site.

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