The album Live, Love, Larf & Loaf was first released in 1987 and is a wonderful and rare collaboration between four experimental world-class master musicians: JOHN FRENCH - original drummer with Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, FRED FRITH - founder of the art-rock ensemble Henry Cow, HENRY KAISER - innovative experimental guitarist and composer and RICHARD THOMPSON - singer-songwriter par excellence and founding member of Fairport Convention. “A oddball delight from four truly gifted musicians” - Live, Love, Larf & Loaf was judged 'Rock Album of the Week' by the New York Times. This carefully re-mastered and packaged edition adds four previously unreleased live tracks.

“As it draws on music from at least four continents, 'Live, Love, Larf and Loaf' romps past borderlines”.
John French : drums, vocals
Fred Frith : bass, violin, vocals
Henry Kaiser : guitar, sanshin
Richard Thompson : guitar, vocals

track list:
Wings á la Mode
Killerman Gold Posse
Where's The Money?
Hai Sai Oji-San
Drowned Dog Black Night
Surfin' USA
A Blind Step Away
The Second Time
Tir-Nan-Darag
Disposable Thoughts
Bird In God's Garden / Lost and Found
Drumboogie
The Same Thing
Night Comes In live
Invisible Means live
Quick Sign / Suzanne live
Madness Of Love live

Release date: 14th April 2008
Barcode number: 5020393 306720

Price: £12.00
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Richard Thompson's first solo album after leaving Fairport Convention is a stunning tour de force - an absolute classic of English music. Recently voted by MOJO magazine as one of the top guitar albums of all time, Henry the Human Fly has been out of print for several years. For this sensitively remastered, slipcased edition Fledg'ling have restored all the elements of the original artwork, included song lyrics and added several prevously unpublished photographs.

One of MOJO’s 20 greatest guitar albums ever!



Richard Thompson ~ guitars, vocals, accordion
Sandy Denny ~ piano, vocals
Linda Thompson ~ vocals
Pat Donaldson ~ bass, vocals
Andy Roberts ~ dulcimer
Ashley Hutchings ~ vocals
John Kirkpatrick ~ accordion
Sue Draheim ~ fiddle
Barry Dransfield ~ fiddle
Timi Donald ~ percussion, vocals
David Snell ~ harp
Jeff Cole ~ trombone
Clay Toyani ~ trumpet
John Deferi ~ tenor saxophone
track list:
Roll Over Vaughn Williams
Noboy's Wedding
The Poor Ditching Boy
Shaky Nancy
The Angels Took My Racehorse Away
Wheely Down
The New St. George
Painted Ladies
Cold Feet
Mary And Joseph
The Old Changing Way
Twisted

Release date: 21st June 2004
Barcode number: 5020393 304528

Price: £12.00
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Invisible Means is the second oddball masterpiece from four of the world’s finest experimental master musicians, was originally released in 1990. Together French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson conjure up a heady mix, covering a bewildering variety of genres, from folk and R&B to avant-garde and comic opera. Underpinning the whole album is the extraordinary level of their musicianship. Fledg’ling Records are proud to present this newly re-mastered, maximum length CD, including a previously unreleased live cover of the Rolling Stones’ ‘Play With Fire'.

“The ensemble playing is never less than inspired”.

Amongst the many highlights are John French's hilarious ‘Now That I Am Dead’ - in which a deceased musician discovers death is the career boost he’s being waiting for), and Richard Thompson’s remarkable ‘Begging Bowl’ and the simply stunning ‘Killing Jar’.



JOHN FRENCH - drums & lead vocal
FRED FRITH - bass
RICHARD THOMPSON - guitar & lead vocal
HENRY KAISER - guitar

track list:
1 PEPPERMINT ROCK
2 TO THE RAIN
3 LIZARD'S TAIL
4 MARCH OF THE COSMETIC SURGEONS
Act 1, scene 1, The Clinic of Dr. Krikstein. On a podium, Centre, MRS. RIPSTOCK-GEDDES is posing as Aphrodite, complete with water jug. Enter Left DR. KRIKSTEIN, followed by his STUDENTS, marching Indian file to the rhythm of the music.
5 SUZANNE
6 QUICK SIGN
7 BEGGING BOWL
8 KALO TAKARIVA
9 INVISIBLE MEANS
10 LOCH LOMOND
11 PLAY WITH FIRE (live bonus track)
12 THE BOOK OF LOST DREAMS
13 DAYS OF OUR LIVES
14 THE EVENING NEWS
15 THE NEARSIGHTED HERON
16 NOW THAT I AM DEAD
17 HUNTING SUNSETS
18 KILLING JAR

Release date: 1st September 2008
Barcode number: 5020393 307222

Price: £12.00
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A tremendously powerful and important recording from 1972 – MORRIS ON led to a re-examination of the English Morris dance and an upsurge of interest that continues to this day. Lovingly remastered and packaged in a smart new digipac, the classic MORRIS ON makes a welcome return to the catalogue.

In 1972 three former members of Fairport Convention – Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson and Dave Mattacks – got together with accordion-maestro John Kirkpatrick and acclaimed folk fiddler Barry Dransfield to record this ground breaking album. The results were quite extraordinary and led to a re-examination of the Morris tradition and the formation of many new dance sides. Thirty seven years later, leader Ashley Hutchings continues to tour with his popular Morris On band.
track list:
1 Morris Call
2 Greensleeves
3 The Nutting Girl
4 Old Woman Tossed In A Blanket / Shepherd’s Hey / Trunkles
5 Staines Morris
6 Lads A’Bunchum / Young Collins
7 Vandals of Hammerwich
8 Willow Tree / Bean Setting / Shooting
9 I’ll Go And List For A Sailor
10 Princess Royal
11 Cuckoo’s Nest
12 Morris Off

ASHLEY HUTCHINGS - bass guitar, vocals
JOHN KIRKPATRICK - vocals, button accordion, anglo concertina, harmonium, tambourine
RICHARD THOMPSON - vocals, electric guitar
DAVE MATTACKS - drums, tambourine
BARRY DRANSFIELD - vocals, fiddle and acoustic guitar
with
SHIRLEY COLLINS - vocals
BERT CLEAVER - pipe and tabor
RAY WORMAN & the CHINGFORD MORRIS MEN - dancing

Release date : 18th January 2010
Barcode number : 5020393 303729

Price: £12.00
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