BERT JANSCH & MARTIN JENKINS: AVOCET

Bert Jansch

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GKR

I've always been a regular listener of early Bert Jansch - especially Nicola, Birthday Blues and Rosemary Lane. Already in the first seconds of Avocet, I knew this was a whole different album.

The violin, cello an the flute in the great first track (a whole epic of 17min in 1978!) gave a breath to Bert's guitar that was never present in his early albums. Celtic folksy atmosphere is also news - and a good one, certainly. The distorted guitar (is that right?) in the second song also shows Bert going places with his chords wuthout really moving too much. He repeat formulas that were succeded in early albums with a different approach. Almost minimalistic revolutionarie changes (is THAT right?). Even when Bert do a more basic base to the violin and cello solo, the instruments are married as I would never dream... I guess I have a new favourite Bert Janch album.

So... 4,5 stars rounded to 5? Yeah, I guess thats it.

GKR | 5/5 | 2015-9-22

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