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01. HAVENSTREET - German Castles
02. HAVENSTREET - When the Madcap Meets the World
03. HAVENSTREET - Old Ways and Schooldays
04. HAVENSTREET - Music in the Night
05. HAVENSTREET - Suspended Animation
06. HAVENSTREET - The H.S.B. Song
07. HAVENSTREET - Yesterday Was Summer
08. HAVENSTREET - Rain
09. HAVENSTREET - The Castle
10. HAVENSTREET - Out of the Fireglow
11. HAVENSTREET - The Keeper of the Tower
12. HAVENSTREET - The Photograph
13. HAVENSTREET - After Time
01. HAVENSTREET - Aftermath
02. HAVENSTREET - Falling Leaves in Autumn
03. HAVENSTREET - Fat Old Engine
04. HAVENSTREET - Family Laughter
05. HAVENSTREET - Just an Illusion
06. HAVENSTREET - Klok
07. HAVENSTREET - Damascus
08. HAVENSTREET - Grasshopper
09. HAVENSTREET - Your Not Being There
10. HAVENSTREET - The Ballroom of Despair
11. HAVENSTREET - Aftersong
12. HAVENSTREET - Village Vespers
ARTIST
TITLE
The End of the Line/Perspectives
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SOMM 016CD SOMM 016CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/14/2014

The genesis of Havenstreet goes back to 1969, when Phil Ridgway and Jeff Vinter played in The Gas, an experimental psychedelic band heavily influenced by Barrett-era Pink Floyd. The two friends started to write songs their own songs, ending up as a folk duo. With the offer to record some of their material at a friend's studio, they recruited more musical friends, so Havenstreet was born. The influences had expanded now to bands and artists such as Peter Hammill, Strawbs, Traffic, Procol Harum, Stackridge, Keith Tippett, Bert Jansch, etc. In the early-mid '70s they recorded a couple of albums which circulated as private cassettes among friends and relatives. In 1977, Havenstreet released The End of the Line, a self-released album in a private edition of 250 copies. It was a collection of very English songs with evocative, literate lyrics and a stunning progressive folk-rock sound. It featured one of the earliest known tributes to Syd Barrett on the song "When the Madcap Meets the World." This expanded double set reissue of Havenstreet's sought-after album includes: the original The End of the Line album from 1977, a new album called Perspectives, which presents the best tracks from the privately-pressed cassettes The Autumn Wind (1974) and Transition (1976), plus rehearsal recordings for The End of the Line (1975/1976) and previously-unreleased recordings for the group's projected fourth album (1979), which was never completed. These amazing tracks range from electric acid-folk to Barrett-esque psych-pop, pastoral folk and Caravan-styled prog-rock. Includes a 16-page LP-sized booklet with photos and detailed liner notes. Remastered from the original master tapes.