🇫🇷 Biographie (Français)
Formé à Dublin autour des chanteuses Alison Williams (plus tard Bools) et Clodagh Simonds, Mellow Candle signe en 1972 chez Deram l’un des albums les plus envoûtants du folk progressif : Swaddling Songs. D’abord adolescentes, elles enregistrent un single confidentiel dès 1968, mais c’est avec ce LP qu’elles livrent leur chef-d'Å“uvre. La dualité vocale féminine, les compositions poétiques aux structures audacieuses et l’instrumentation élégante font de cet album un objet culte. Mélange subtil de psychédélisme pastoral, de rock progressif et de ballades celtiques, Swaddling Songs fut ignoré à sa sortie, avant de devenir un Graal pour les collectionneurs.
🇺🇸 Biography (English)
Formed in Dublin by teenage friends Alison Williams (later Bools) and Clodagh Simonds, Mellow Candle released one extraordinary album in 1972 on Deram: Swaddling Songs. Combining dual female vocals with poetic songwriting and complex arrangements, the album blends progressive folk, Celtic balladry, and psychedelic touches. Though largely overlooked upon release, Swaddling Songs has since become a revered classic, with its rare original pressings highly sought after. The band’s unique blend of harmony and musicianship places them alongside Pentangle, Fotheringay and Comus in the canon of British Isles folk-rock.
💿 Trackliste
Heaven Heath – 1:48
Sheep Season – 5:00
Silversong – 4:26
The Poet and the Witch – 2:50
Messenger Birds – 3:30
Dan the Wing – 2:45
Reverend Sisters – 4:21
Break Your Token – 2:26
Buy or Beware – 6:54
Vile Excesses – 3:14
Lonely Man – 4:28
Boulders on My Grave – 3:44
🎸 Musiciens
Clodagh Simonds – Chant, claviers
Alison Williams (Bools) – Chant
David Williams – Guitare
Frank Boylan – Basse
William Murray – Batterie
🔑 Mots-clés SEO
Mellow Candle, Swaddling Songs, folk progressif irlandais, Deram Records, Clodagh Simonds, Alison Bools, rock celtique psychédélique, album culte 1972, rare LP folk, dual female vocals, Irish prog folk
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