Here’s something: we can – finally! – reveal details of our #AvocetRevisited project. ‘Avocet Revisited’ is a four track EP, commissioned by Earth recordings as a companion piece to Bert Jansch’s 1979 avian-themed masterstroke ‘Avocet’. Again drawing inspiration from the resplendence of birds native to British waters (Bert himself was …
Enormous thanks to The Sunday Times for making Bert Jansch‘s ‘Living In The Shadows’ collection its essential reissue. “Not once do you sense a dying of the light: as the recordings demonstrate, it blazed fiercely to the end.” You can find out more about Bert’s final recordings, and the bonus …
Hanging out the bunting here at Earth Towers, as we add a very special artist to our ranks. Welcome to Earth Anne Briggs, and your extraordinary 1971 album ‘The Time Has Come’. Offering some of her first original compositions, ‘The Time Has Come’ was a break from tradition in more …
Just some of Bert Jansch’s rare birds spotted out in the wild…
While compiling the disc of extras for our ‘Living In The Shadows Part II‘ collection, it was with some excitement that we happened upon a tape labelled ‘Marr’s Medley’. This tape, plucked from Bert Jansch’s personal archive, contained the sort of thing that fans of music – particularly those such …
A grey day beyond the windows here at Earth Towers, so what a treat it is to receive a review like this one, from our good friends over at fRoots Magazine. “Unlike other reissue labels, Earth Records doesn’t produce facsimiles, but rather creates luxurious packages with original design and artwork… …
Another lovely review of Bert Jansch (Official)‘s ‘Living In The Shadows’, this time from esteemed messrs Record Collector Magazine. In terms of accolades we’re not sure it gets better than “And did we mention how exquisitely it’s packaged and annotated? Again, Earth do Bert proud.” – thanks you lot! http://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/living-shadows
“Bert Jansch’s Avocet was very off compared to what was going on in music in the late ’70s. I knew about him when I was in school because he was in Pentangle. The whole thing with music fans in the late ’60s was all about: “Are you Jimi or Eric?” …
Our ‘Living In The Shadows’ collection by Bert Jansch finally makes its way into the light today. In celebration, please enjoy the alternative mix of ‘Just A Dream’ (originally from ‘When The Circus Comes To Town’). This pared back version is one of our favourite tracks from disc four of …
BIG NEWS: The forthcoming 4XLP box sets documenting the work of Bert Jansch (Official) in the 90s and 00s (‘Living In The Shadows’ and ‘On The Edge Of A Dream’) will be closely followed by two further official deluxe collections, chronicling Jansch’s complete recordings in the 1960s, and early 1970s …
Our friends over at Erased Tapes Records know what’s up; thanks for featuring the appropriately-titled ‘Expectation Of The New Year’ by Mikael Tariverdiev on your recent NTS Radio show. Now, about those expectations… tariverdiev.bandcamp.com Erased Tapes 26.12.16 Each month London label Erased Tapes will play a 2-hour set of specially …
