Here's one I'll bet few of you have ever heard of:
'Water Bearer' by Sally Oldfield, Mike Oldfield's sister.
Her music is folk pop with lots of bouncing tinkly guitar, piano, light percussion and synthesizer. The lyrics are typical early '70s earnest mystic spirituality and joy of life, hope for the future and love of humanity. Her voice is okay-- a bit husky and warm and sexless-- which suits her tunes nicely. (There is also an intrusive 'classical' tenor who almost ruins two of the songs.)
But the songs, if you can stand them, are sometimes so beautiful and moving that for about the whole of the first side and most of the second it is easy to give in to them. (She will undoubtedly strike most of you as sentimental, comically self-satirizing, and ridiculous. This record-- the only one of hers that is any good-- is a very personal taste.)
'Water Bearer' by Sally Oldfield, Mike Oldfield's sister.
Her music is folk pop with lots of bouncing tinkly guitar, piano, light percussion and synthesizer. The lyrics are typical early '70s earnest mystic spirituality and joy of life, hope for the future and love of humanity. Her voice is okay-- a bit husky and warm and sexless-- which suits her tunes nicely. (There is also an intrusive 'classical' tenor who almost ruins two of the songs.)
But the songs, if you can stand them, are sometimes so beautiful and moving that for about the whole of the first side and most of the second it is easy to give in to them. (She will undoubtedly strike most of you as sentimental, comically self-satirizing, and ridiculous. This record-- the only one of hers that is any good-- is a very personal taste.)