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Are you talking about the cornet in Bolero, or the oboe in the very quiet middle section of Lizard (not included in the YouTube link)? The first is very jazzy, the other is rather exotic (almost Middle-Eastern). There's a big difference in sound between the trumpet-like cornet (a brass instrument) and the mellow oboe (a woodwind/reed instrument). Sorry if this is overanalyzing, but I'm a musician!
I'm also a musician and I'm 100% that it is in fact an oboe right at the timestamp. The cornet plays the jazzier parts. It has a slightly sharper sound.
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Seeing Renaissance mentioned, I'd say Mother Russia
Huh? "Red blood, white snow, he knows frozen rivers won't flow." I'm not sure know about this one, Luka.
Pretty intense music and lyrics for such a baroque band.
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Posted: October 05 2017 at 10:14
SteveG wrote:
octopus-4 wrote:
Seeing Renaissance mentioned, I'd say Mother Russia
Huh? "Red blood, white snow, he knows frozen rivers won't flow." I'm not sure know about this one, Luka.
Pretty intense music and lyrics for such a baroque band.
specifically for me, it's the buildup after Annie's vocalise that is as beautiful as anything I've heard, mostly on piano but gathering steam with oboe and strings, leading right up to the repetitive flourish on harp. I'm looking forward to seeing them with the chamber orchestra in just 3 weeks!
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Strawbs have so many beautiful moments, but one of them is the whole of this song, in this definitive version. Once you discover that it's both a love song and an ode to a 19th century lighthouse keeper's daughter named Grace, its beauty multiplies
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^yeah, a beautiful song Ken, with perhaps some of Cousins' best lyrics. He is an awesome songwriter that I feel is badly overlooked by the general public.
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^yeah, a beautiful song Ken, with perhaps some of Cousins' best lyrics. He is an awesome songwriter that I feel is badly overlooked by the general public.
Hi Steve
True, and not just in the general public but in the prog community as well, where some consider them too "mainstream".
here is another beauty, which manages to be lyrical with almost no lyrics
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Mr Fox 1970
A bit folky vocal-wise I know but there's some really gorgeous arrangements and a rich folk/ baroque/ psych feel.. Nearly as dark as Comus in places.. the track 'Mr Fox' just gets me every time!
My favourite Strawbs lp, the one which gives me the most goose-pimples!
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Oh, I forgot about Comus! 
