Shide & Acorn - Under the Tree |
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Catalogue Number: KSCD9400 |
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Under the Tree was recorded in 1971 to document the end of Shide & Acorn, who were on the verge of splitting. Such proximity to group-s immolation may explain the "tired" sound of 2 or 3 songs. The rest of the LP typifies the degenerate hippie sensibilities of the late '60s (when the material was written) - here the listener is in a world where Tolkien becomes a literary genius and godfather to the hippie-psyche. Mellow to the point of somnambulism, unthreatening peace and love lyricism, wistful child-of-the-stars female vocals, marijuana-worshipping male vocals. Sitars, anachronistic stringed instruments, belss - pseudo-mystical tosh, elves, cosmic wanderings - all here. Typically insidious, the thinly veiled christianity of Tolkien - as patronisingly duff as the average American situation comedy - had an ironically profound influence on 'subversive' youth. What music would have resulted had T. H. White been chosen as guru? or the superbly dark wit of Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd & Grey Mouser" tale? Better still, leaving the realms of generic fiction, Plato or the divine Marcus - and a world free of music altogether.
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| No. | Name | Composer(s) | Length | Year |
| 1.) | Introduction | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 2.) | Eleanors Song | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 3.) | Away, Fly Away Love | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 4.) | Trucking | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 5.) | Girl of the Cosmos | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 6.) | Heron Grey | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 7.) | Under the Tree | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 8.) | So Long Day | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 9.) | Solitaire | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 10.) | Marigold | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |
| 11.) | Sound of Winds | Shide & Acorn | 00 mins 00 secs | 1971 |