This is super cool! Many thanks to Indie-Eye for taking the time. Alias Grace – OST by Mychael & Jeff Danna, vinyl edition: unboxing ASMR sensorial video Lakeshore Records and Earth Recordings publish a wonderful vinyl edition of "Alias Grace" , original soundtrack from Netflix mini series by Sarah Polley …
Another FIVE STARS to join the constellation for our ‘Man I’d Rather Be’ Collection (Part 1). Big thanks to Andy Gill at The Independent for the support, and this shining review. Packaging together Bert Jansch’s first three albums – Bert Jansch, It Don’t Bother Me and Jack Orion – along with Bert …
Limited edition Alternative Scouting ‘Song Collecting’ patch designed by UK artist – and Earth collaborator – Luke Drozd. Commissioned as a companion piece to ‘The Ballad of Shirley Collins‘ DVD and soundtrack. Each patch is traditional merit badge size (4.5cm) and can be sewn onto your favourite jacket, scouting sash or …
Something rather special to cheer a grey January afternoon: ‘Wondrous Love’ by Shirley Collins, originally recorded for the BBC in 1958 and consigned to the vaults ever since. The song is one of two from the same session, both of which feature on our soundtrack from The Ballad of Shirley Collins film. Effusive …
Public Service Announcement: antidote to the January Blues follows. Failure to pre-order may result in severely diminished musical enjoyment in the coming months. For more information, please contact your local vinyl physician. NEW TO PRE-ORDER: The Ballad Of Shirley Collins – which premiered at this year’s London Film Festival …
“Emotionally skewering music from a sleeping giant of Russian composition… a lavishly presented double LP demonstrating the dramatic range the highly prolific Soviet composer was capable of.” **** The Olga Sergeevna Soundtrack adds 4 more stars to its galaxy by way of our friends over at Record Collector Magazine. Thank you …
Thanks to our pals over at Art Vinyl for featuring both Bert Jansch’s ‘Avocet’ and our ‘Avocet Revisited’ as part of their recent exhibition. (We’d say they made a nice pair, if it wasn’t edging dangerously into ‘Carry On Twitching’ territory). https://avocetrevisited.bandcamp.com/
We’re delighted to announce not one but two further collections in our series of Bert Jansch box-sets. Presented in our signature case bound book-backs, these 4 LP / 4 CD sets cover Bert’s most prolific era, taking us from his eponymous 1965 debut, all the way through to 1974’s ‘Moonshine’. …
“The Remarkable story of one of the great British folk singers whose voice, once lost, makes a welcome return.” The Ballad Of Shirley Collins premiere’s at London’s BFI Film Festival in October. A few tickets remaining below. Friday 13th – 18.30 – VUE (Leicester Square) Sat 14th – 15.45 – …
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 …
