Sunbeam Rec. 
Dawnwind : Looking back on the future (UK,1975)***°
Encouraged by people like Alex Campbell to write their own material, this duo, dedicated especially since 1970 their lives to the music, looking for over another 4 intense years for a way how to record an album. After one previous recording attempt for a private label called Eden, in 1972, which was never released, the final first concrete recording happened in just one winter weekend in 1975, (commissioned a year before) and now finally submitted and released by a private label called Amron. Unless the quick recording, and while recalling very much a live Folk club atmosphere, the mood is rather steady and it worked out very well. A few studio musicians (guitars, mandolin and fiddle) helped with a few additional improvised arrangements. There’s enough delicacy and honesty in the singing and songs to make it work. Even when they had gigs from 1972 with some of the famous (the liner notes mention Pretty Things, Jethro Tull, East Of Eden, Bridget St.John, UFO, Sandy Denny,..) the many years of a busker-type travelling, made them focus mostly on songs, which did not bring them never far from a folk era that a public could recognise. When hearing the two bonus tracks from a live recording, you can hear how their style and songs worked live. A nice album that shows us something of the real attractiveness in the music of some singers in the folkclubs of those days.
