Voice of the Seven Woods

Voice from the Seven Woods is in fact the prog folk automobile of multi-instrumentalist Rick Tomlinson, a Manchester, U.K.-centered musician whose classical guitar style echoes the approach of Bert Jansch, Robbie Basho, and Davy Graham. Tomlinson, who takes on oud, sitar, and piano aswell as acoustic guitar, and sometimes sings, offers released a reliable group of 7″ EPs and limited-edition CD-Rs of his music, however the Voice from the Seven Woods task, which also contains musical insight from Chris Walmsley, allowed him to branch out a little into what could nearly end up being termed “folktronica.” The self-titled Tone of voice from the Seven Woods record premiered in 2007 in European countries by Twisted Nerve Information (and by B-Music Information in the U.S.). Although Tomlinson hinted that VOTSW was probably a one-off task, he toured behind the record being a trio with Walmsley on drums, percussion, and keyboards and Pete Hedley on bass.