Various - Magic Forest: More Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975 (CD)

Sealed. Three CD set. 

Follow up to the 2022 release 'Deep In The Woods' (curated by Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve/The Grid) The sequel, 'The Magic Forest' is another triple CD set assembling rare cuts and cult favourites from the worlds of psychedelic, pastoral and funky folk from 1968-1975. Boasting some overlooked gems from long collectable acts such as Mellow Candle, Forest, Agincourt, Knocker Jungle, Zior and many more. Housed in a 3 CD digipack in a striking wraparound collage by Lyndon Pike. Celebrating the collision of traditional folk with new psychedelic studio techniques, new and exotic textures, and a developing groove. It's a wide and broad range of styles, drawing from folk, it's oral storytelling tradition, and also from jazz, beat, rhythm and blues, and the more mind opening sounds of psychedelia.

Disc 1
1 Fat Mattress - Magic Forest
2 The Woods Band - Dreams
3 Mellow Candle - Sheep Season
4 Shelagh McDonald - Stargazer
5 Knocker Jungle - I Don't Know Why
6 Amber - She Shell Rock Me
7 Prelude - God
8 Paul Brett - Empty Dreams/Flying Machines
9 Gary Farr - Don't Know Why You Bother Child
10 Aidan Nolan - Out on a Limb
11 Keith West - Leit Motif
12 Agincourt - Barn Owl Blues
13 Julian Jay Savarin - Cycle
14 Natural Acoustic Band - Learning to Live
15 Forest - Fading Light
16 Zior - I Was Fooling
17 Affinity - Night Flight
18 Clifford T Ward - a Dream
19 Kevin Lamb - Frost on the Pasture
20 Barrington Davis - Strange Days
21 John Williams - I Wonder Why

Disc 2
1 Sandy Denny - Next Time Around
2 Fairfield Parlour - Aries
3 Family - My Friend the Sun
4 Chris Harwood - When I Come Home
5 Heron - Yellow Roses
6 Jade - Fly on Strangewings
7 Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S Bounty - Ice Cube Island
8 Fresh Maggots - Rosemary Hill
9 The Coterie - Dawn
10 The Music Box - Downstairs on the Floor
11 Tim Hollier - Seagull's Song
12 Bill Nelson - House of Sand
13 John St. Field (Jackie Levin) - Soft Lowland Tongue
14 Ian a Anderson - One More Chance
15 The Occasional Word - Missed My Times
16 Paper Bubble - Sorry About That
17 Ancient Grease - Mystic Mountain
18 Oberon - Summertime
19 1Tim Rose - If I Were a Carpenter
20 Mark Fry - the Witch

Disc 3
1 Jade Warrior - Morning Hymn
2 The Ghost - Hearts and Flowers
3 Honeybus - for Where Have You Been
4 Majority One - Rainbow Rockin' Chair
5 Fotheringay - the Pond and the Stream
6 Friends - One Sweet Day
7 Pentangle - the Snows
8 Maldoon - Sit and Talk About It
9 Comus - in the Lost Queen's Eyes
10 Ithaca - Questions
11 Bruce Spelman - Sandcastles
12 Carolanne Pegg - a Witch's Guide to the Underground
13 Alan Hull - Picture a Little Girl
14 John Fandinando & Peter Howell - Jabberwocky
15 Mortimer - Last of the "H"
16 Roy Harper - Sophisticated Beggar
17 Marsha Hunt - Southern Man
18 Snafu - Goodbye USA
19 Siren - Asylum
20 Bridget St John - Ask Me No Questions