YOUNGS, RICHARD - This Is Not A Lament (Sealed) (2CD)

ON) YOUNGS, RICHARD - THIS IS NOT A LAMENT 115616 format: 2 CD release: 01.09.2017 label: FOURTH DIMENSION genre: Independent item ID: 115616 barcode: 0859721126991 Return of Richard Youngs to Fourth Dimension, a label that has supported his work since the early 1990s via collaborations with Simon Wickham-Smith. The latter returns to this set, based around the notion of songs featuring special guests. Spread over the two discs, eleven here assume all manner of sonic guises that are often difficult or sometimes blissed-out but always rewarding. Most include guests, themselves from a wide variety of backgrounds (taking in all from groups such as Trembling Bells and Vibracathedral Orchestra to folk, bagpipe music and abstract electronics), and are each named after a geographical location for reasons only the artists know. Spanning almost two hours it not only once again illustrates precisely how prolific an artist Richard Youngs is but firmly compounds his place as one who can comfortably traverse all from avant forms of songwriting to those even less charted spaces. As visionary like Robert Wyatt, he unwittingly exudes everything most perceive the very idea of English eccentricity as being. So-called utsider' music rarely arrives so pronounced and at the same time so warm and inviting