Description
Album bound triple lp set released especially for Record Store Day 2016
The massive set features both of Loren Auerbach’s albums originally released on her own Christabel Records, plus a third disc of recently unearthed, unheard material. Includes previously unseen images, together with a personal message from Loren’s mother, Geraldine. Remastered from original tapes by Brian Pyle. There’s an idea in Japanese culture which suggests that true beauty can only be achieved through imperfection, as it’s opposite is unattainable. Colours Are Fading Fast – a beautifully presented three disc set by Loren Auerbach (alongside future husband Bert Jansch) – is a case in point. Though Auerbach’s voice is sure, it has a tenderness about it that is truly endearing – to listen to her sing is almost an invitation – close your eyes and you could be sitting with her in her living room, a hot cup of tea by your side. Auerbach’s two albums (Playing The Game and After The Long Night respectively) are included here, alongside In Moonlight’s Grace – a third disc of previously unheard and unreleased material, transferred and remastered from original tapes. This part of the triptych feels decidedly special as it documents what would become a great partnership between Loren and Bert – both creatively and romantically. Some of it is a work in process, some of it more polished, but all of it retains Loren’s particular charm, and the effect that it clearly had on those around her. Listening again to her works, it’s truly a wonder that she didn’t see the same recognition of Virginia Astley, Bridget St John or even Vashti Bunyan.
Track list:
1. The Rainbow Man
2. Frozen Beauty
3. Christabel
4. So Lonely
5. Journey Of The Moon Through Sorrow (A.K.A. The Miller)
6. Carousel
7. Weeping Willow Blues
8. Give Me Love
9. I Can’t Go Back
10. Smiling Faces
11. Yarrow
12. Playing The Game
13. Is It Real?
14. Sorrow
15. Days And Nights
16. Snowflakes
17. Just As Before
18. Leaving Station
19. Jody
20. Set You Free
21. Nothing To Improve
22. Tam Lin
23. Man Of The World
24. The Bank Of The Nile
25. There’s A Man I Know