Earth Recordings

15/02/2024

OUT TODAY!

Unheard and unreleased track by Scott Fagan ‘IT WON’T BE LONG’ is available now… see the link below to stream / purchase 🙏🖤

Taken from his lost and ill-fated 1971 Broadway rock opera ‘SOON’… which featured a then unknown, up and coming actor named Richard Gere (see pic).

The production was canned after one performance, not before Scott himself was fired from his own project (!) for creative differences.

Will ‘SOON’ ever be heard the way Scott intended? Spoiler alert: yes. Stay tuned for more info...

https://earthrecordings.lnk.to/ScottFaganIWBL

12/02/2024

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY BAGPUSS! 💓🙌💓🙌💓

Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate’s remarkable cloth cat-based television programme was first broadcast on this day in 1974. A multigenerational favourite, not only were the stories much-loved but the songs were to become part of the cultural fabric too.

In 2018 we released The Music From Bagpuss on vinyl and CD, Stewart Lee described it as “an accidental classic of the folk-roots underground”… high, but justified, praise indeed for Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner’s fantastic compositions.

Grab a copy here: https://bagpuss.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-from-bagpuss

09/02/2024

Available today on vinyl, and for the first time since 1968 with its original sleeve, Scott Fagan's South Atlantic Blues!

Revisiting Fagan’s mystical, mythical, and deeply soulful masterpiece, this psych-folk gem doffs a Tropicalia hat direct from downtown New York. Largely overlooked on its initial 1968 release through Atlantic Records-subsidiary, ATCO, ‘South Atlantic Blues’ inspired a lithograph artwork (entitled “Scott Fagan Record”) by pop artist Jasper Johns. Fagan also co-wrote and starred in the first rock musical to be produced on Broadway, 1971’s ‘Soon’ (based on his experiences in the music industry and co-starring a young Richard Gere), and was nearly the first artist signed to the Beatle’s Apple Records (they opted for James Taylor instead)

Described as “Full of psychedelic folk, Donovanish pop and stripped-down, brass-powered, redemptive soul” by The Guardian, South Atlantic Blues is an epic song cycle wrapped around an impassioned love story, driven by Fagan’s dense, allusive lyrics, experimental production by Elmer Jared Gordon and rich arrangements by Horace Ott (Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, The Shirelles)

BUY IT HERE: https://earthrecordings.lnk.to/ScottFaganSAB
T-SHIRT BUNDLE: https://tsptr.com/products/tsptr-x-fire-records-scott-fagan-set

30/01/2024

We are currently offering 30% off the vinyl edition of the much missed Judy Dyble’s Anthology Part One. . A career spanning collection showcasing how diverse and prolific Judy was, and also bringing together previously unheard and unavailable rarities from the archives.

All housed in a deluxe linen-finish sleeve, complete with full colour 12 page booklet. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide:

https://judydyble.bandcamp.com/album/judy-dyble-anthology-part-one

08/01/2024

“The 10 tracks are as accomplished as they are immediately likeable, combining folk, country, psychedelic pop & orchestral soul, with calypso and show tuneage providing top notes... Bacharach-meets-Bowie"

Excellent 8/10 review in Uncut Magazine

https://earthrecordings.lnk.to/ScottFaganSAB

04/01/2024

Astonishingly 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Earth Recordings’ existence as a record label. And in that time an absolute cornerstone of our catalog has been working with the Bert Jansch estate to reissue his remarkable canon of work. Including both studio LPs and rare live performances.

Issued as EARTHLP004, ‘Live at the 12 Bar’ is Bert on stage in his mid-1990s return to form. Pitchfork noted the “sweep of its songs, a range that reflects the roots of his work and how much he was able to grow within its traditions.”

We are now offering ‘Live at the 12 Bar’ on LP and CD with 25% off, simply follow the link below and use the code: Bert12Bar25

https://bertjansch.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-12-bar

09/11/2023

Exciting announcement news! 🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨

The long lost 1968 debut album by singer-songwriter, Scott Fagan, once tipped to be bigger than Elvis, is set for release on 9th February 2024 via Earth Recordings. ‘South Atlantic Blues’ will be reissued for the first time in its original artwork, with an iconic portrait of Fagan by famed rock photographer, Joel Brodsky, following a widely celebrated 2015 release.

Revisiting his mystical, mythical, and deeply soulful masterpiece, this psych-folk gem doffs a Tropicalia hat direct from downtown New York. “His songs embrace a broad sonic fantasia, swirling in ’60s New York R&B and ’40s jazz, as well as the Caribbean rhythms of calypso, meringue and Pachanga.” — New York Times

“Forget Rodriguez, forget Searching for Sugar Man,” says Sharyn Felder, daughter of the late Doc Pomus, the legendary songwriter who signed Fagan to management in 1964. “Scott was so much more. He was cut from a different cloth.”

PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE / STREAM NOW: https://earthrecordings.lnk.to/ScottFaganSAB

06/11/2023

A lineup of stellar acts (Jacqui McShee, Robert Plant, Bernard Butler, Martin Simpson, host Stewart Lee, plus many more) and an appreciative audience gathered at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday evening to celebrate the life and music of Bert Jansch on what would’ve been his 80th birthday.

“A moving and impressive tribute” — The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/05/an-80th-birthday-concert-for-bert-jansch-review-royal-festival-hall-london

27/10/2023

HAPPY REISSUE RELEASE DAY!

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In celebration of 80 years of Bert Jansch we are excited to present three reissues, all available everywhere TODAY 🙏

The long out of print ‘art print’ version of Avocet returns on vinyl for a limited edition run, along with two Rough Trade exclusives: Edge Of A Dream on cream vinyl, and The Black Swan on jade green (swan egg?) vinyl…

https://bertjansch.bandcamp.com/album/avocet-40th-anniversary-edition

01/09/2023

If you like folk, psych folk, Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones, acid folk, John Renbourn, Al Stewart, finger-style guitar, ‘Clifton Village’, beautiful songs, Steve Tilston, loner folk, Ian A. Anderson, Nick Drake, harmonies, craftsmanship, and music that seems like it has been beamed from a more radical, bohemian timeline than our present dystopia… well then, Elephantasia by Dave Evans is the record for you...

Pre-order, pre-save, stream here: https://daveevans.lnk.to/Elephantasia

31/08/2023

“Forgotten great of the 70s British folk scene” — NPR

“Cult status guaranteed” — Uncut Magazine

Elephantasia, Dave Evans’ glorious folk opus, is back on vinyl (and CD) for the first time in 50 years!

For fans of Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Bill Fay, Davy Graham, Wizz Jones et al

The record will be available everywhere from the 24th November, see link below to preorder, pre-save, stream etc...

https://daveevans.lnk.to/Elephantasia

14/07/2023

Bert Jansch 80th birthday concert featured in Uncut Magazine

A tribute concert to mark what would have been Bert Jansch's 80th birthday is taking place on November 4 at the Royal Festival Hall

07/07/2023

Celebrate the enduring legacy of the folk musician with Martin Simpson, Jacqui McShee, Robert Plant, Bernard Butler, Kathryn Williams and Sam Lee.

04/07/2023

Don’t get the 80th Birthday Concert for Bert Jansch blues, get a ticket…

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gigs/80th-birthday-concert-bert-jansch

03/07/2023

In celebration of 80 years of Bert Jansch we are excited to present three reissues, all out on October 27th.

The long out of print ‘art print’ version of Avocet returns on vinyl for a limited edition run, along with two Rough Trade Records exclusives: Edge Of A Dream on cream vinyl, and The Black Swan on jade green (swan egg?) vinyl... link below with all the pre-order/ purchase info...

https://earthrecordings.lnk.to/BertJansch80

03/07/2023

03/07/2023

AN 80th BIRTHDAY CONCERT FOR BERT JANSCH 🖤💙

Tickets for this special event with an absolutely stellar lineup go on sale this week: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gigs/80th-birthday-concert-bert-jansch

“Bert Jansch was that rarity, a musician who really did deserve to be regarded as a legend"
The Guardian

“A boundless bounty of a folk-rock legend.. Jansch’s supreme talent was resistant to time”
Classic Rock

The enduring legacy of Bert Jansch’s peerless guitar playing and songwriting is celebrated by Bernard Butler, Jacqui McShee, Robert Plant, Kathryn Williams, Brigid Mae Power & Steve Gunn, Martin Simpson, James Yorkston, Sam Lee and more.

One of the most influential songwriters and guitarists of all time; A leading light of the 1960s British folk revival and a founding member of folk jazz supergroup Pentangle, his career spanned five decades, inspiring generations of musicians with his ground-breaking acoustic guitar technique and emotive songs. A stellar line-up including his friends, fans and collaborators celebrate his extraordinary musical legacy.

Jansch had a long history of performing at the Royal Festival Hall: Pentangle’s first major performance took place here in 1967 and they recorded part of their Sweet Child album here in 1968. The original Pentangle line-up reformed to play the same hall exactly 40 years later and it was a Pentangle show at the Royal Festival Hall in August 2011 that proved to be his last performance.

22/04/2023

25/11/2022

Bert at the BBC compiler, and liner note scribe, Colin Harper popped in to the Travelling Folk radio show (on the BBC appropriately enough) to discuss the box set and all things Bert Jansch... Listen back on the hyperlink below:

Anna Massie explores the life and music of Bert Jansch with writer Colin Harper.

18/11/2022

Bert Jansch at the BBC is a truly glorious collection; extensively researched and featuring radio and TV sessions from 1966 to 2009, it’s Outstanding.

18/11/2022

“I was just writing songs and seeing where they went. Something by Dylan would push me in one direction, Tim Buckley in another, John Prine in another, Jefferson Airplane in another. I was constantly synthesising everything around me…” — Tom Rapp talking influences in Jeanette Leach’s landmark ‘acid folk’ tome Seasons They Change.

The Wizard Of Is is available to buy on vinyl, for the first time, today. Link to listen/ purchase here: https://earthrecordings.lnk.to/PearlsBeforeSwineTheWizardOfIs

08/11/2022

“Jansch’s supreme talent was resistant to time…” —
Classic Rock Magazine
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Bert Jansch at the BBC is available now on 4 LP and 8 CD ‘hardback book’ editions. Seek them out at your preferred music retailer, or get one delivered to your door: https://linktr.ee/earthrecordings

04/11/2022

OUT NOW! https://earthrecordings.lnk.to/BertJanschAtTheBBC

04/11/2022

Bert Jansch at the BBC is out today! 🙌🖤🙌

Available in 4 LP and 8 CD hardback ‘coffee table’ book editions. Both are loaded with 40 pages of liner notes and photographs. Featuring contributions from Lauren Laverne, Jools Holland, Mark Radcliffe, Bernard Butler, Bob Harris, Liz Kershaw and many more...

Pick up a copy everywhere records are sold, or via the link below:

https://earthrecordings.lnk.to/BertJanschAtTheBBC