Sandra Kerr & John Faulkner - The Music from Bagpuss Shop Window Deluxe Vinyl LP
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The music has never been issued on vinyl before and Earth Records have gone to town and created a very special – and limited – ‘shop window’ vinyl edition which features a die-cut gatefold sleeve, into which you can swap one of five high quality lithographs featuring five characters from the show.
The vinyl and CD editions both feature 32 tracks of which – like all good folk music – are a patchwork of traditional pieces, half-remembered tunes and pure improvisation. Of the recording, Oliver Postgate (in his autobiography ‘Seeing Things’) says: “Between them Sandra and John could play every sort of instrument from a mountain dulcimer to an Irish fiddle. They knew and could sing every tune in the world and didn’t bother with written music, except as a last resort. They were exactly suited to Gabriel the Toad and Madeleine the Rag Doll and in those roles were happy to play whatever music and sing whatever songs would be needed.”
In addition to these compositions, there are 17 never-before-heard outtakes on the CD (included as 24/48 kHz WAV files – along with the 32 album tracks – via download card on the vinyl edition) which provide an intimate – and often very humourous – insight into the creative process. Highlights include alternative opening words and end music, as well as Postgate sound-checking in character as Bagpuss.
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