Product Plug: Beau - Creation Recreated (Cherry Red, 2011)

NOTHING TO DOWNLOAD HERE...WELL, AT LEAST NOT FOR FREE

Among the great things about being a music blogger are the opportunities I've had to make connections with some of my favorite recording artists whose albums I've reviewed here. Pursuant to my post on his transcendent debut LP, I've begun corresponding with Trevor Midgley (aka "Beau" aka "John Trevor"), who was kind enough to grant my request to be interviewed for an upcoming biographical article that is tentatively slated to appear in issue #33 of Ugly Things magazine. In exchange, I told him that I would be more than happy to help promote the re-release of his mind-blowing followup effort Creation (retitled Creation Recreated), which was recorded with Dandelion Records labelmates Jim Milne and Steve Clayton of The Way We Live/Tractor. It's truly an album like no other and has been enhanced with the inclusion of 11 bonus tracks.

So without any further ado, here are the pertinent details from Trevor's website:

CREATION + 11 BONUS TRACKS,
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME AS
A DOWNLOAD!

(Click here for full lyrics, song stories, and all recording details.)

Described by one US radio station as “the first psych-folk album”, the original Creation recordings from John Peel’s Dandelion label have now been remastered and made available to download for the first time.

Four tracks have been remixed for this Cherry Red release of Creation Recreated.

Of the ELEVEN BONUS TITLES, ten have never been released before, including four songs from 1972’s High Mass sessions (with The Way We Live / Tractor®) and three from 1975’s Twelve Strings To The Beau.

The set is downloadable from Amazon, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes and all your favourite distribution services (more distribution services listed here).

Two thoughts, with several decades between:

In his 1971 Creation review, Al Clark concluded;

“Beau (is)… a direct descendant of folk music before stardom moved in.” (Time Out)

Almost forty years later, Simon Crisp had another perspective;

“‘Silence Returns’… descend(s) into a frenzied 3-minute guitar thrash that fades out with some ethereal and chilling 12-string … ‘Blind Faith’ brings a depth of emotion that simply shouldn’t be possible … Beau (is) a talented singer-songwriter with a superlative 12-string technique …” (Galactic Ramble, 2009)

Neither of these guys had heard Creation Recreated!