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Hey, I´m glad there was something of interest for you in Basket of Light, misspoptart.
Prompted by your comment, I dipped into a couple of Wolf´s Rain tracks - very new territory for me. I liked the Gravity song that features Maaya Sakamoto, but I didn´t notice much similarity to Pentangle tbh. Something I did notice was about how female vocalists are recorded these days. Maaya Sakamoto´s vocal track included the sound of her breathing between lines, whereas back in the day of Pentangle´s Jaqui McShee, that kind of exposure of technique was never attempted, the singer delivered the words and then was expected to keep quiet till the next line started. Anyone else noticed that difference in recording style ? I think the change occurred about the time of Clannad´s popularity and higher fidelity recording technology.
Anyway, thanks for the comments and the votes, Miss P and rostasi. I have the bad habit of voting excellent for every album I nominate, so this time I´m just going for "good". After all, this album has a couple of weaker tracks and I´ve heard this material so many times that my response to it has dulled more than I at first thought.
PS. There´s plenty more than two tracks on Youtube; here are a couple more for anyone interested :-
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