Voice Of The Seven Woods, by Voice Of The Seven Woods

Voice Of The Seven Woods

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Nickie Harte Kelly This is a very prog/psych/folk outing from Rick Tomlinson, a superbly agile shapeshifting guitarist, who is joined by drummer Chris Walmsley, and Paul Blakely on upright bass. They dabble with Middle Eastern themes, jazz, folk and psych, conjuring up sitting around a fire with talented friends who are improvising for the sheer love of it. Favorite track: Silver Morning Branches.

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1.	Sand And Flames 04:17	buy track
2.	Sayat Nova 02:52	buy track
3.	The Fire In My Head 03:29	buy track
4.	Silver Morning Branches 03:58	buy track
5.	Second Transition 03:26	buy track
6.	Valley Of The Rocks 03:21	buy track
7.	Underwater Journey 02:17	buy track
8.	Return From Byzantium 06:35	buy track
9.	The Smoking Furnace 02:50	buy track
10.	Dusk Cloud 01:42	buy track

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The first fruit of acidic folk merchant and Ash Ra Temple-dweller Voice Of The Seven Woods; a hybrid blend of progressive folk, baroque jazz rock and Eastern psychedelia.

Five eventful summers have passed since the young Rick Tomlinson stumbled in to Manchester's vivid musical landscape as a vinyl hungry psyched-out sidekick to Andy Votel on his formative Twisted Nerve road show. The self-taught jack of all musical trades has since drawn influence from an oblique archive of obscure LPs and bizarre instruments and forged his own unique approach to making music.

With an exhausting work schedule still chasing him into 2007 Rick has decided to unpack his suitcase and attempt to commit his very own hybrid blend of instrumental progressive folk to magnetic tape under the name Voice of the Seven Woods.

With two critically acclaimed and extremely rare Twisted Nerve 45s (the first of which currently changes hands on internet auction sites for £150+) and a slew of handmade gig only CDs under his belt, for these eagerly awaited solo sessions he has enlisted the skills of a drummer in a quest to create the authentic sound typified by the likes of Terry Cox in Pentangle with an added rhythmic influence of Turkish psychedelic bands first heard in the mid 70's.

Drummer Chris Walmsley, who has recorded with forward thinking groups like Broadcast, and upright bass player Paul Blakesley are the perfect reactionary accompaniment to Rick’s sporadic flirtations with time and tempo

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released January 16, 2016

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