Peter Howell & John Ferdinando

Peter Howell & John Ferdinando were involved with several recording tasks in the later 1960s and early ’70s that fused the poppier edges of Uk folk-rock and Uk progressive rock. Specifically, their extremely limited-edition (50-100 copies) pressings of albums by Agincourt and Ithaca are respected by some expert psychedelia enthusiasts. Though just a little lo-fi in comparison to records through the era of an identical nature on larger brands, the albums to that your pair contributed have got a good light, airy, somewhat naive feel, and so are significantly above the common for such rarities of that time period and design. Before carrying out the Agincourt and Ithaca albums, Peter Howell and John Ferdinando also released a limited-edition LP in early 1969 from the soundtrack they do for the Ditchling Players’ creation of Alice Through the Searching Glass. This task arose out of the outgrowth from the pair’s fascination with recording material independently equipment, beyond correct professional studios. The tiny town where they resided, Ditchling (in Sussex, near Brighton), became alert to their actions and asked them to supply the music for the neighborhood stage creation. Using many musical instruments (including guitars, body organ, glockenspiel, piano, autoharp, mandolin, and sound files), they built a musical backdrop that was comparable to their potential, slightly even more celebrated attempts, but just a little folkier and even more basic. It had been nice, low-key, nearly wholly instrumental, whimsical period English psychedelia, but understandably even more on the amount of incidental music than an creative statement. Regrettably, the recording was interrupted by insertions of jarring lo-fi spoken term extracts from your play, though a lot of the space was adopted from the music, that was acceptably well documented. Howell and Ferdinando halted working collectively in the ’70s, after Howell (who’d been a BBC studio room supervisor since 1970) started working in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where he done vocals for radio, tv, and film. The Alice Through the Searching Glass recording was reissued in 1997 like a limited-edition LP inside a press operate of 1000 copies by Tenth World.