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 Post subject: The Amazing Blondel
PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:44 pm 
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The Blondel album. Apparently this band is named after a French trouvère , Blondel (the wandering minstrel), forever in search of his imprisoned Lord.
"By 1260, Blondel's name had become attached to a legend in the highly fictionalised Récits d'un Ménestrel de Reims; this claimed that, after Richard I of England was arrested and held for ransom in 1192, he was found by the minstrel Blondel, whom he saw from his window, and to whom he sang a verse of a song they both knew."

While it sits perfectly in the wheelhouse of similar bands like Spirogyra, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention et al. The Amazing Blondel are very much their own beast with their own sound. The key is accessibility in melody and songwriting through dexterous musicianship. That's not always easy to do.


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 Post subject: Re: The Amazing Blondel
PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 4:25 pm 

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Of those i've heard, i esp. like Evensong & Blondel albums. Rad that you are really gettin' into the Acid Folk stuff, mang! Perfect music for the coming Fall & Winter months. I'll throw a few up too as inspiration moves.

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 Post subject: Re: The Amazing Blondel
PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 12:22 pm 
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libertycaps wrote:
I'll throw a few up too as inspiration moves.


That would be cool brother!

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