Willkommen Rec. 
V.A. : Willkommen Collective volume 1 (UK,2009)****
Music for some centuries used to be 'cover music' and coverage commissioned music where only a handful of composers stood out as individuals, after the war it was especially certain interpreters, sometimes also writers of songs who stood out, since the sixties groups became a new entity, both as composers and performers. Because certain music forms begin to have a hard time to survive within a mainstream world it isn’t a bad idea to form also collectives and communities with several likeminded groups, something which Willkommen Community did. Their players are in a lot of bands, often around Bristol, and they all play with one another, supporting each other’s bands. I have already discovered the great Shoreline and Sons of Noel and Adrian (who’s 2008 release for me was the best acid folk album of that year), it seemed there’s a lot more under their wings (also Hamilton Yarns seems to be involved). We have most often great acid folk with often sweet or nicely coloured voices of the vocalists, with vocal arrangements, sometimes distinctive guitar pickings and violin/cello/thumb piano plucks and interesting orchestrated chamber-arrangements, the accompaniments of many groups are related, the singers are different, and so it seems as if most bands are like one super group into smaller sections with some nice variations and some differences depending on who’s leading or who is involved (a folktronic influence by Hamilton Yarns is a distinctive style element). Some of the later tracks are clearly a bit less acidfolk, more singer-songwriter inspired, while the arrangements make the bridge. The Leisure Society is clearly also more electric, heavier or more psychedelic, also they fit pretty well. A perfect compilation and introduction to the label/community.
Involved in CD order are Moonshine Moonshine with ultrasweet vocals singing a well arranged “Violet (says)” (you can expect her release soon), The Laish Quartet, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Shoreline, Kristin McLement, Hamilton Yarns, The Miserable Rich, Redwood Red, Christian Silva, Atlas Crease, Kopek, The Leisure Society, and The Climbers.
Edition of 1000 Silkscreened hand made cd’s.
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