Pentangle Solomon's Seal CD

Innovative progressive rockers Pentangle play nine of their evocative songs on this 1972 release.

Pentangle were at the top of the British folk-rock heap, easily the equal of contemporaries like Fairport Convention, but their commercial peak came in 1969 with BASKET OF LIGHT. The last album the original lineup made before running out of steam altogether was 1972's SOLOMON'S SEAL. While the album features the band's trademark mix of folk, rock, and jazz, the double guitar threat of John Renbourn and Bert Jansch and the study-in-contrasts vocal interplay of Jansch and Jacqui McShee, there's a greater clarity and focus to the sound. While this results in less raw immediacy than Pentangle enjoyed on some of their earlier albums, it also makes for a more deliberate overall feel; in other words, the last album of the band's initial incarnation is probably the one that came out most closely to what they intended.

First time on CD for this much sought after classic folk album originally issued on Reprise in 1972. Nine tracks. Slipcase. Castle. 2003.The Wire (p.41) - "Jansch is in notably better voice than usual delivering his compositions 'People On The Highway' and 'Jump Baby Jump'..."