Clive Murrell - Guitars, keyboards, percussion, recorder, voices, noises, field recordings etc.
Influences
The Incredible String Band, Bert Jansch, Nic Jones, Neil Young, Bibio, Voice Of The Seven Woods, T.C. Lethbridge, Roky Erickson, George Spicer, The Copper Family, The Sussex Downs, The High Weald, The Pendulum, Roy Harper, Claude Vasori, Oliver Postgate, Pop Maynard, Woodsmoke, Stephen Stills, Children Of The Stones, Fleet Foxes, Freddie Phillips, Trumpton, Chigley, Camberwick Green, The Owl Service, Sarah Porter, Programmes For Schools And Colleges, BBC Radio 4, Hush Arbors, Scan Tester, Gryphon, Jim Sullivan, Tim Hardin, Sandy Denny, Harry Price, Look And Read, Dave Swarbrick, Charles Fort, The Watersons, Wizz Jones, The Maypole, John Renbourn, Martin Simpson, Eliza Carthy, Fairport Convention, My Old School's May Day Mummers Play, Richard Thompson, The Books Of Alan Garner, Pentangle, Sandy Denny, Magnet, Mellow Candle, Paul Giovanni, Nick Drake, June Tabor, Martin Carthy, Boards Of Canada, Barcombe Roman Villa, A Ditchling Carol, Meic Stevens, Epic45, July Skies, Fotheringay, Bob Dylan, Circulus, Dick Gaughan, Gruff Rhys, Richard James, John Martyn, Pentre Ifan, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Euros Childs, Candidate, Kate Bush, Julian Cope, Ivor Cutler, Susan Christie, Tim Hardin, Vashti Bunyan, Donovan.....etc etc etc.
Sounds Like
"Nice to hear the sound of sunlight and treetops on a murky wynter day" (Meadowsweet)..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
"Perfect pastoral psych-folk with hints of Camberwick Green. Meltingly lovely" (Lost At Ty Canol).............
Kitten Painting - www.kittenpainting.blogspot.com.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................A brief burst of The Quarrymen's Chant (which I suspect comes straight out of the archives at Cecil Sharp House) opens this album, giving way to a lovely original piece where voices float in a mist over guitar and, I think, mandolin. Much of the record is devoted to charming acoustic guitar from Clive Murrell, plus some recorder, a touch of birdsong, some loops and drones. As I write, it's a sunny late afternoon and Cuffern makes a fine soundtrack for the moment - John Cavenagh - Boa Melody Bar - http://www.apexonline.com/melodybar/new~1.htm......................................................................................................................................
Wyrdstone - Cuffern (RW 075)
10 tracks of psychedelic/traditional/pastoral folk guitar and other sounds.
The CD comes in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies in white card sleeves with paste on artwork with a "Wickerman" theme.
For full track listing and other details, please check out my latest blog.
The album is available to order now at 'Reverb Worship' on:
www.reverbworship.com
Folk music and noble obscurity. They go together like Robin and Barry Dransfield. Back in the day, it might have been because Ye Olde Public were too distracted by the yelping of Tom Jones to discern the flute-organ of Dolly Collins, but nowadays that noble obscurity is achievable simply by unleashing a CDR of stunning music in miniscule quantities. Such is the case with the fantastic pastoral psych-folk concoction Cuffern (Reverb Worship) by WYRDSTONE, the nom de plume of West Sussex folk guitarist Clive Murrell. The 10 instrumental tracks – two traditional, eight self-penned – are simply lovely hand-hewn musical sculptures. The nearest modern comparison is probably Voice Of The Seven Woods, although Wyrdstone goes far further in evoking rural details of corn dollies and well dressing without uttering a word. You’ll have to be quick to get it though – it’s limited to an extremely skimpy fifty copies. - Shindig Magazine - Sept/Oct 09............................................................................................................
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