News From Topic Records April 2017 Pentangle - Finale (Record Store Day Exclusive)

Pentangle - Finale (Record Store Day Exclusive) For this year’s Record Store Day (22nd April) Vinyl 180, under license from Topic, will release a beautiful, deluxe 180g triple vinyl version of Pentangle’s ‘Finale.’ Recorded live during their 2008 tour, ‘Finale’ sees the original Pentangle line-up revisit their classic repertoire, a career retrospective for the halcyon years 1967-73. This limited edition 3 disc pressing of just 500 copies comes in two deluxe gatefold sleeves - the second sleeve holding the third disc and an original copy of the programme from the historic 2008 tour. The sleeves are packaged in a hardback casebound slipcase, making a truly magnificent collectors piece. Respected music journalist and long-time fan Peter Paphides provides a fascinating insight into the significance of these recordings by contributing sleeve notes specially commissioned for this 3LP set. The original 2016 2CD version of Finale is also available now from: TOPIC SHOP, AMAZON, ITUNES and on SPOTIFY New Topic Records Online Shop We’ve partnered with Propermusic.com for our new Topic Shop where you can buy all of our releases. All orders are despatched on a first class Royal Mail service or via our UPS / DPD / DHL courier service (All free of charge in the UK and only £2 Delivery worldwide). The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards take place tonight at the Royal Albert Hall, if you're not lucky enough to be heading along, you can watch the show live on the BBC Red Button or the BBC website. Good luck to Shirley Collins and Nancy Kerr who are both nominated for awards. In celebration of their nominations, we've reduced the prices for the titles below in our new Topic Shop. Shirley Collins - The Classic Collection Shop now... Shirley Collins - The Sweet Primroses Shop now... Also available from Shirley Collins at a discount Heroes in Love (7") Simpson Cutting Kerr - Murmurs (deluxe version) Shop now... The Full English Shop now... Copyright © 2017 Topic Records Ltd., All rights reserved.  mailing address  Topic Records Ltd. 7 Fernie Court, Station Road UPPINGHAM, Rutland LE15 9TX United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Topic Records - New Linda Thompson Album

Won't Be Long Now

Topic Records is very proud to announce that the long-awaited new album from Linda Thompson will be released next week.

Won’t Be Long Now – Linda's first album in six years -  was recorded in the UK and America with a rich array of contributing musicians. While it’s undoubtedly a family affair, featuring a duet with former husband Richard Thompson, regular contributions from their children Teddy and Kami, and grandson Zak Hobbs, Won’t Be Long Now also reflects Linda’s folk beginnings. This new album includes appearances by many alumni of the British folk scene, including John Kirkpatrick, Dave Swarbrick, Martin and Eliza Carthy, as well as American musicians such as David Mansfield, Amy Helm, Sam Amidon, Jenni Muldaur and Tony Trischka, among others.

“It’s apparent how undimmed Thompson’s talent is, especially in the sheer confident power of her vocal performance. Long may she continue.” Record Collector

More Info at...  www.topicrecords.co.uk  

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The Full English

The Full English ensemble will be on tour shortly:
19 Oct  The Met  BURY
24 Oct  The Sage  GATESHEAD
25 Oct  The Atkinson  SOUTHPORT
26 Oct  Darwin Suite  DERBY
27 Oct  Colston Hall  BRISTOL
28 Oct  Arts Centre COLCHESTER
29 Oct  Firth Hall  SHEFFIELD
30 Oct  The Stables  MILTON KEYNES
31 Oct  Cecil Sharp House  LONDON
01 Nov  The Mac  BIRMINGHAM
02 Nov  The Drill Hall  LINCOLN

“Seasoned celebrations, tragedies, comic interludes
and oodles of warmth ensue.” The Daily Mirror.

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LAL WATERSON
teach me to be a summer's morning

Fledg'ling Books in association with Topic Records are to publish this beautiful 72 page hardback book with 15 track CD on Monday 21st October.

Lal Waterson is known primarily as a singer and songwriter, a member of the wonderful Watersons. teach me to be a summer’s morning shows the full range of her creativity. This limited edition hardback book publishes, for the first time, a selection of her drawings, paintings, lyrics, thoughts and poems to present a portrait of her extraordinary intense, tender and complex but ultimately very human artistic talents. The CD, included inside the book, collects together 15 songs drawn from her home recordings and serves to confirm her stature as a songwriter of rare imagination, depth and rich beauty.

More Info at...  www.topicrecords.co.uk

Busy Month Ahead For Topic Records.

Busy month ahead new releases from Topic October is scheduled to be very busy in the Topic office. We have several exciting new projects due for release. The splendid FULL ENGLISH album is released on Monday 7th October and LINDA THOMPSON's eagerly-awaited Won't Be Long Now on Monday 14th October. Our colleagues at Fledg'ling Records have just released a previously unheard live recording from 1968 by The YOUNG TRADITION and are to publish a hardback Book with CD of the late LAL WATERSON's lyrics, drawings and paintings on 21st October. All four projects have kept us very busy in recent months. You may have already spotted some of the many reviews and media mentions. The Full English is a groundbreaking project sponsored by the English Folk Dance and Song Society that draws together for the first time the early twentieth century folksong collections of Harry Albino, Lucy Broadwood, Clive Carey, Percy Grainger, Maud Karpeles, Frank Kidson, Thomas Fairman Ordish, Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alfred Williams. The result is the most comprehensive searchable database of British folk songs, tunes, dances and customs in the world. To mark the launch of the project, folksong scholar and acclaimed singer Fay Hield has assembled The Full English band - inviting half a dozen of the top talents on the English folk music circuit to collaborate on songs drawn from these unique collections. The result is a tremendous album of material drawn from these historic collections. Rapidly becoming identified as a folk supergroup The Full English includes singer and fiddle player Seth Lakeman, who has successfully steered English folk into the musical mainstream with his high-energy performances and a series of best-selling albums. One of the world’s finest and most admired guitarists, Martin Simpson. Nancy Kerr, another fiddler/singer with a deep commitment to the English traditional repertoire, celebrated for her partnerships with Eliza Carthy and James Fagan. Sam Sweeney on fiddle and Rob Harbron on concertina, formidable instrumentalists who feature in Fay’s backing band The Hurricane Party as well as in Jon Boden’s Remnant Kings, and are two of the most in-demand session musicians on the scene. Nailing all this multi-instrumentality down is Ben Nicholls, double bassist of choice for artists as diverse as the Seth Lakeman Band, Martin Carthy and Jimmy Somerville. The FULL ENGLISH CD is available to buy at the special price of at £9.00 until 1st November Last weekend, BBC4 broadcast Michael Proudfoot's splendid and moving documentary The Enigma of Nic Jones - the return of Britain's lost folk hero. Nic Jones is a legend of British folk music. His 1980 record Penguin Eggs is widely regarded as a classic - in a poll by the Observer a few years ago, Penguin Eggs was rated number 79 of the 100 Best Records of All Time, just above Station to Station by David Bowie and just below Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones - amazing for an LP that never actually charted. The programme is currently available to watch on the iPlayer Linda Thompson's first album in six years has been receiving some incredible press - "Folk-rock grande dame, still damned grand" in the view of Uncut. We'll have full details of Won't Be Long Now and the Lal Waterson book teach me to be a summer's morning in a newsletter soon. Fledg'ling Records have just released a previously unheard live recording of the mighty YOUNG TRADITION – Oberlin 1968 – FLED 3094 "Copious thanks to Fledg’ling for bringing us what is definitely the historical release of the year, no question." Living Tradition The live reputation of the mighty Young Tradition lives long in the memories of all who heard them during their brief career. Live recordings were thought not to exist until, 45 years later, an American fan remembered the reel-to-reel recording he’d made at Oberlin College on 17 November 1968. Carefully restored, these tapes are finally available for all to hear on CD and DL. Recently we added a few more designs to our range of Topic T-shirts. Full details can be found at: www.topicrecords.co.uk/category/t-shirts/ We have a handful of copies of the limited edition DAVY GRAHAM & ALEXIS KORNER 3/4 AD vinyl Record Store Day 2013 anniversary EP left to purchase from the Topic online shop. "Finger-style guitar maestro's signature tune, reissued on a 50th anniversary EP for Record Store Day 2013". MOJO