Judy's return to the stage!
Robert Cossaboon | The happy land of Walworth, NY | 07/18/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"As far as I know, this is Judy Dyble's first album in a long long time. I fell in love with her voice from her work on the first Fairport Convention album, as well as the Trader Horne album she helped cut. That's about it, however. Not much since then, save for the Giles Giles and Fripp CD a couple of years ago called the Brondesbury Tapes. How thrilled I was to finally see her do something new! From the keyboard/electric bass of the first song, "Summer Gathers", the listener will hear that Judy Dyble isn't picking up where Trader Horne left off. Upon this first listen, my first thoughts were whether it would have killed her to have included a mandolin or a harpsichord on some of the songs. What can I say, I loved the Trader Horne album that much! Yet, if you, like me, have followed (or tried to) her work from her part in King Crimson with the Brondesbury Tapes, to her role on the first Fairport Convention album, to Trader Horne, you will notice here that what is present, and is the most important part of the Enchanted Garden album anyway, is Miss Dyble's voice--that never changes, thank goodness. Lyrically, the themes are also not that far off from her previous work. Many of the songs, fairytale-like and laden with mystery, evoke a world of troubadours and elves, especially on the title track. Further, a new-age sensibility seems to be imbued into many of the songs (also because of those omnipresent keyboards) whereby introspective meditations on loved ones are coupled with elements of a particular face of nature, especially snowfall and ominous sunsets.
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Track Listings (10) - Disc #1