Pentangle recorded this song as the opening music for the series 'Take Three Girls.' They contributed other music to the programme too. Take Three Girls was the first BBC TV series to be filmed in colour, but sadly of the two complete series only about 10 episodes survive. There were infact 5 girls ( 2 replacement actresses came in for the second series) and the show followed their lives as they shared a London appartment at the end of the 1960s. Later on 'Take Three Women' caught up with the lives of the original three. Pentangle have a huge fan base in the UK and elsewhere. My favourite song of theirs is the epic ' Cruel Sister' which is an ancient poem many verses and shows Maddy Prior's huge expressive range.
loved the song.loved the TV show. If I am honest this song gave me a wonderful introduction to folk. Bert Yance on guitar Danny Thompson on bass Jaquie Mc shee wonderful voice
I am a massive fan of the band, and it's members. I met Jacqui McShee after a gig 4 years ago and she was an absolute delight. This particular tune is quite complex, mixing three different time signatures in one song, the musicianship is incredible, all topped off with Jacqui's amazing vocal.
Pentangle recorded some of the greatest acoustic music you will ever hear. Neil Young once said that Bert Jansch (one of the guiyarists) did for the acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix did for the electric. Danny Thompson, the bassist has appeared on hundreds of albums. Bert Jansch and John Renbourn (the other guitarist) have recorded some phenomenal albums over the years. Sadly they have both past on, but anyone who likes acoustic music will be aware of both these giants. Jacqui mCShee has the voice of an angel, crystal clear and pure. Love your cahannel, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant and now Pentangle,> how about some Weather Report "Unknown Soldier".
So glad you reviewed the first (only) jazz-folk group. It was a kind of folk-rock supergroup as in the early and mid-sixties there was a big debate between folkies as to whether the more classical John Renbourn or the more traditional Bert Jansch (whom Jimmy Page loved - check his Jansch ripoff on the first Led Zeppelin album) was the "better" guitarist. Then then they got together and formed Pentangle, a band of 5 equal parts. I saw them 3 times in 1970 and they were magical live. As you can hear from this live version of Light Flight; ruclips.net/video/2tyVezuUtCA/видео.html
So great was Ms Denny, that LedZepp vocalist Robert Plant deigned to have her duo with her on The Battle of Evermore, the only time the group ever featured a non-band member during their decade-long career... ruclips.net/video/fS2YuBi8_yE/видео.html
At last somebody is doing Pentangle. For me they were the best Folk "Group", with a Jazz rhythm section and outstanding Folk/Jazz guitar players, and of course the great Jacqui McShee on vocals. You need to hear their version of The Trees They Do Grow High and also watch House Carpenter live from the BBC. They have so many other great tracks though.
I went to Pentangle's first concert (in London in the mid Sixties) and was entranced. It was interesting that Danny Thompson and Terry Cox had a jazz background; Bert Jansch a Blues/folk background; John Renbourn mostly folk and medieval music and Jacqui McShee, folk. Their eclectic mix was unique. Who else would or could combine banjo, sitar and upright (double) bass in a song (House Carpenter)?
One of the members of Pentangle lives in a beautiful old house across the road just outside the village I live in -- but I've never seen them (and no one knows which one it is). :0)
Pentangle has been in my top three groups since high school in the early 70s and Bert Jansch is my favorite guitarist/songwriter. I hope you get to explore more of their music. This song was the closest they ever got to pop music. RUclips has many videos of them, and solo work by Bert and John. Good ones include Pentangle's Train Song, and Let No Man Steal Your Thyme, Waltz, In Time, No More My Lord, Bells, the rhythmically complex Train Song, and the brilliant Hunting Song. John was such a smooth and lyrical guitarist, while Bert was the creative composer and inventor of new styles. He was known for sudden and unexpected changes, odd rhythms, unconventional tunings and chords. He could play rough driving lines (as in Poison or Black Waterside, which Jimmy Page ummm....borrowed (without acknowledgement) and renamed it Black Mountainside on first Led Zeppelin's album). He also played with great finesse as hin his groundbreaking treatment of Davy Graham's Angie. (Check out Graham as well. He did a groundbreaking treatment of the traditional song She Moved Through The Fair, which Page again ummmm..... borrowed and played with The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, calling it White Summer.) Good Jansch songs - Angie, Poison, I Saw An Angel, A Woman Like You (with Pentangle's Terry Cox on drums), Lucky Thirteen (with John), Anti-Apartheid, Ring-A-Ding Bird, and Promised Land. Good John Renbourn pieces - Mist Covered Mountains of Home, The Black Balloon.
Pentangle had some great songs - this has never been a favourite for me. The guitarists John Renbourne and Bert Jansch were real pioneers of a new style of playing, which was trying to recreate old folk music using steel string guitars. They had to recreated it because nobody really knows what it sounded like hundreds of years ago, and they definitely took as many liberties as the felt like, but they were very influential and brilliant musicians.
The band were fusion of a jazz bassist and drummer, a blues guitarist, and a traditional English guitarist and singer. The song was used as the theme for the British drama, 'Take Three Girls'.
This was written as a TV theme tune. Like all TV themes of that period its written in distinct sections. Opening theme plus an outro, with a middle section that probably wouldnt be used in the programme. Its also very untypical of Pentangle's output. If you are looking for a similar sound check out Forheringay by Fairport Convention which has Sandy Denny on vocals.
This was the theme tune for a TV series " Take Three Girls" 5 very different women sharing a flat in London. "Basket of Light" a great live album. Danny Thompson base. McShee vocals, Yansch and Renbourne guitars.
Whether of not you react to it, I cannot recommend highly enough listening to more Pentangle. Everything they do is great. You can also go from there to Fairport Convention, as someone else mentioned, and also Steeleye Span.
Bit late hearing your reaction vid. Pentangle/Renbourne Group seems to merge the ancient with the modern in similar fashion to the way groups like Pink Floyd merge the morden with the ancient.
What a great song. I know some of their stuff, but not this one. Makes me want to overthrow governments, take off my clothes, and frolic in a meadow. Goddamn. Sifa is bang on about the Stereolab vibe. Latetia Sadier.
While you are checking out folk music look for some Breton music, from the region of Brittany, France. They are a separate subculture of Celtic music but completely different from the UK stuff. More driving , emotional and passionate, odd rhythms, different instruments and a completely different sound. It oftentimes lends itself well to jazz and many modern Breton artists blend the two. The grandfather of Breton music would be the harpist/singer Alan Stivell. He practically single-handedly introduced the folk harp to the modern world but modernized it with rock sensibilities. Malicorne is more French than Breton but do brilliant updates of traditional songs that sometimes sound avant garde or psychedelic. If you want to go more for a rock feel, check out Ar Re Yaouank. They play "fest noz" (night festival) music. Although acoustic, sometimes they sound more like a hard driving rock group.
I checked out and liked your original music, and it made me think of the duo Tuck and Patty. I don't know if you are familiar with them, but they've been around for a while. Tuck Andress had a guitar instructional video out in the early 90's, where he shows how he sometimes plays many parts simultaneously. Here they are doing some Hendrix : ruclips.net/video/M56QwDjE6PQ/видео.html
"Light Flight" was recorded in 1969, and was the 1st single released from the Basket of Light album. It was also used as the theme for a BBC TV series, Take Three Girls. The first time I heard this recording I thought it must have spawned an entire sub-genre of music. But no, never happened. About the only similar recordings to Light Flight would be Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" album (particularly the title track and "Sweet Thing"), which also makes use of stand-up bass and Jazz textures. But Pentangle normally tends towards more British Folk themes/sounds with Jazz inflections. I don't think they ever sounded this Pop again. [EDIT: I forgot, there is a song called "The Best Part of You", but that is all Pop without the Jazz.] Light Flight is a great driving song - that's what is so unexpected. To anyone interested: there is a Live at the BBC version as well somewhere on RUclips. Unfortunately the acoustic instruments sound a little too quiet live so it doesn't have quite the same "drive" as the recorded version. McShee's live vocals on the other hand are spot on. Apparently she has no need to take breaths during her singing like the rest of us humans (just try singing along to this song). Both guitarists, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, had solo careers. My favorite track from John Renbourn was the instrumental named The Hermit: ruclips.net/video/3uP7FAZ3vXI/видео.html Also checkout Renbourn's duet with Dorris Henderson on "The Time Has Come".
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Pentangle recorded this song as the opening music for the series 'Take Three Girls.' They contributed other music to the programme too. Take Three Girls was the first BBC TV series to be filmed in colour, but sadly of the two complete series only about 10 episodes survive. There were infact 5 girls ( 2 replacement actresses came in for the second series) and the show followed their lives as they shared a London appartment at the end of the 1960s. Later on 'Take Three Women' caught up with the lives of the original three. Pentangle have a huge fan base in the UK and elsewhere. My favourite song of theirs is the epic ' Cruel Sister' which is an ancient poem many verses and shows Maddy Prior's huge expressive range.
loved the song.loved the TV show. If I am honest this song gave me a wonderful introduction to folk. Bert Yance on guitar Danny Thompson on bass Jaquie Mc shee wonderful voice
I am a massive fan of the band, and it's members.
I met Jacqui McShee after a gig 4 years ago and she was an absolute delight.
This particular tune is quite complex, mixing three different time signatures in one song, the musicianship is incredible, all topped off with Jacqui's amazing vocal.
Look when this was recorded. Utterly timeless music.
As an old 1960s hippie, Pentangle were, for me, an essential part of the English music scene. They were all excellent musicians.
Pentangle recorded some of the greatest acoustic music you will ever hear. Neil Young once said that Bert Jansch (one of the guiyarists) did for the acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix did for the electric. Danny Thompson, the bassist has appeared on hundreds of albums. Bert Jansch and John Renbourn (the other guitarist) have recorded some phenomenal albums over the years. Sadly they have both past on, but anyone who likes acoustic music will be aware of both these giants. Jacqui mCShee has the voice of an angel, crystal clear and pure. Love your cahannel, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant and now Pentangle,> how about some Weather Report "Unknown Soldier".
Thanks for the info Ray! We had a great time discovering them!
Pentangle is absolutely fantastic. Not enough known.
Very underrated
A bit late to this one, but Pentangle are folk royalty, and no kidding!
So glad you reviewed the first (only) jazz-folk group. It was a kind of folk-rock supergroup as in the early and mid-sixties there was a big debate between folkies as to whether the more classical John Renbourn or the more traditional Bert Jansch (whom Jimmy Page loved - check his Jansch ripoff on the first Led Zeppelin album) was the "better" guitarist. Then then they got together and formed Pentangle, a band of 5 equal parts. I saw them 3 times in 1970 and they were magical live. As you can hear from this live version of Light Flight; ruclips.net/video/2tyVezuUtCA/видео.html
Such a swirling blizzard of melody, harmony, and rhythm. Moves every particle in me.
Quiet spectacular
Fairport Convention has to be next for you guys. Sandy Denny is another phenominal vocalist in English Folk Rock.
Thanks Steven!
So great was Ms Denny, that LedZepp vocalist Robert Plant deigned to have her duo with her on The Battle of Evermore, the only time the group ever featured a non-band member during their decade-long career... ruclips.net/video/fS2YuBi8_yE/видео.html
Who knows where the time goes
@@richardmorton4762 A Sailor's Life or The Deserter are some good options too.
At last somebody is doing Pentangle. For me they were the best Folk "Group", with a Jazz rhythm section and outstanding Folk/Jazz guitar players, and of course the great Jacqui McShee on vocals. You need to hear their version of The Trees They Do Grow High and also watch House Carpenter live from the BBC. They have so many other great tracks though.
We loved their sound! Thanks for watching!
@@SightAfterDark Recorded in the sixties and early seventies and so timeless sounding. It's one of the beauties of folk based music.
This was used for a BBC drama in the 60s called 'Take Three Girls'. Pentangle original jazz folk geniuses.
Thanks for the info!
There is great live video of this band , worth seeing.
Thanks!
I went to Pentangle's first concert (in London in the mid Sixties) and was entranced. It was interesting that Danny Thompson and Terry Cox had a jazz background; Bert Jansch a Blues/folk background; John Renbourn mostly folk and medieval music and Jacqui McShee, folk. Their eclectic mix was unique. Who else would or could combine banjo, sitar and upright (double) bass in a song (House Carpenter)?
Amazing!
Also can’t wait. Genius group of musicians.
Oh yeah, the greatness of this one took us by surprise
One of the members of Pentangle lives in a beautiful old house across the road just outside the village I live in -- but I've never seen them (and no one knows which one it is). :0)
Pentangle has been in my top three groups since high school in the early 70s and Bert Jansch is my favorite guitarist/songwriter. I hope you get to explore more of their music. This song was the closest they ever got to pop music. RUclips has many videos of them, and solo work by Bert and John. Good ones include Pentangle's Train Song, and Let No Man Steal Your Thyme, Waltz, In Time, No More My Lord, Bells, the rhythmically complex Train Song, and the brilliant Hunting Song. John was such a smooth and lyrical guitarist, while Bert was the creative composer and inventor of new styles. He was known for sudden and unexpected changes, odd rhythms, unconventional tunings and chords. He could play rough driving lines (as in Poison or Black Waterside, which Jimmy Page ummm....borrowed (without acknowledgement) and renamed it Black Mountainside on first Led Zeppelin's album). He also played with great finesse as hin his groundbreaking treatment of Davy Graham's Angie. (Check out Graham as well. He did a groundbreaking treatment of the traditional song She Moved Through The Fair, which Page again ummmm..... borrowed and played with The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, calling it White Summer.) Good Jansch songs - Angie, Poison, I Saw An Angel, A Woman Like You (with Pentangle's Terry Cox on drums), Lucky Thirteen (with John), Anti-Apartheid, Ring-A-Ding Bird, and Promised Land. Good John Renbourn pieces - Mist Covered Mountains of Home, The Black Balloon.
Jimmy seems to “borrow” a lot ☺️! Thanks for sharing Merrill!
wedding dress is a funky one. Light flight gets played at funk do's - see Norman Jay@@SightAfterDark
Pentangle always give me goosebumps, so many wonderful songs.
Pentangle had some great songs - this has never been a favourite for me. The guitarists John Renbourne and Bert Jansch were real pioneers of a new style of playing, which was trying to recreate old folk music using steel string guitars. They had to recreated it because nobody really knows what it sounded like hundreds of years ago, and they definitely took as many liberties as the felt like, but they were very influential and brilliant musicians.
Definitely a lot of Lord of the Rings vibes with some of their music.
We really like their style!
I have around 20 Pentangle and related CDs.
The band were fusion of a jazz bassist and drummer, a blues guitarist, and a traditional English guitarist and singer. The song was used as the theme for the British drama, 'Take Three Girls'.
Thanks for the info Jacksonthumb!
And what a singer Jacqui is!
This was written as a TV theme tune. Like all TV themes of that period its written in distinct sections. Opening theme plus an outro, with a middle section that probably wouldnt be used in the programme. Its also very untypical of Pentangle's output. If you are looking for a similar sound check out Forheringay by Fairport Convention which has Sandy Denny on vocals.
Pentangle's jazz-folk sound is pretty much unique. _Waltz_ is another really fine piece by them.
Thanks!
One of my all time favorite live groups , enjoyed your reaction.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
This was the theme tune for a TV series " Take Three Girls" 5 very different women sharing a flat in London.
"Basket of Light" a great live album.
Danny Thompson base. McShee vocals, Yansch and Renbourne guitars.
Sounds interesting! Thanks Stuart!
You are showing your age.
@@joemdee you too if you remember the TV show
Basket of Light is not a live album.
Beautiful... Takes you back in time. Check out Danny Thompsons bass work with John martyn. Talk about emotions...
Beautiful indeed
Wow, I've heard OF them. Never heard anything by them. A new thing to delve into. I'm a sucker for folk music.
This is stunning isnt it?
@@SightAfterDark absolutely. Ever heard of Steeleye Span? (All Around My Hat) They were the perfect folk rock band. Sounds somewhat similar
Great review, people. Lovin' your channel ! Best wishes from Scotland.
Thanks so much for being here!
Anyone mentioned it before? It is their version of Dave Brubeck's "Take 5" (and very good).
More pentangle please. Great reaction.
Thank you!
Nice review
Can't wait...
:)
Whether of not you react to it, I cannot recommend highly enough listening to more Pentangle. Everything they do is great.
You can also go from there to Fairport Convention, as someone else mentioned, and also Steeleye Span.
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Bit late hearing your reaction vid. Pentangle/Renbourne Group seems to merge the ancient with the modern in similar fashion to the way groups like Pink Floyd merge the morden with the ancient.
What a great song. I know some of their stuff, but not this one. Makes me want to overthrow governments, take off my clothes, and frolic in a meadow. Goddamn. Sifa is bang on about the Stereolab vibe. Latetia Sadier.
Lol pretty much! Thanks for watching!
While you are checking out folk music look for some Breton music, from the region of Brittany, France. They are a separate subculture of Celtic music but completely different from the UK stuff. More driving , emotional and passionate, odd rhythms, different instruments and a completely different sound. It oftentimes lends itself well to jazz and many modern Breton artists blend the two. The grandfather of Breton music would be the harpist/singer Alan Stivell. He practically single-handedly introduced the folk harp to the modern world but modernized it with rock sensibilities. Malicorne is more French than Breton but do brilliant updates of traditional songs that sometimes sound avant garde or psychedelic. If you want to go more for a rock feel, check out Ar Re Yaouank. They play "fest noz" (night festival) music. Although acoustic, sometimes they sound more like a hard driving rock group.
Thanks for the details!
Not my favourite Pentangle song, but still really great. They have a place in history.
I checked out and liked your original music, and it made me think of the duo Tuck and Patty. I don't know if you are familiar with them,
but they've been around for a while. Tuck Andress had a guitar instructional video out in the early 90's, where he shows how he sometimes plays many
parts simultaneously. Here they are doing some Hendrix : ruclips.net/video/M56QwDjE6PQ/видео.html
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!
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Cat Dubh = Black Cat.
haha we've heard :)
They are English
"Light Flight" was recorded in 1969, and was the 1st single released from the Basket of Light album. It was also used as the theme for a BBC TV series, Take Three Girls.
The first time I heard this recording I thought it must have spawned an entire sub-genre of music. But no, never happened. About the only similar recordings to Light Flight would be Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" album (particularly the title track and "Sweet Thing"), which also makes use of stand-up bass and Jazz textures. But Pentangle normally tends towards more British Folk themes/sounds with Jazz inflections. I don't think they ever sounded this Pop again. [EDIT: I forgot, there is a song called "The Best Part of You", but that is all Pop without the Jazz.] Light Flight is a great driving song - that's what is so unexpected. To anyone interested: there is a Live at the BBC version as well somewhere on RUclips. Unfortunately the acoustic instruments sound a little too quiet live so it doesn't have quite the same "drive" as the recorded version. McShee's live vocals on the other hand are spot on. Apparently she has no need to take breaths during her singing like the rest of us humans (just try singing along to this song).
Both guitarists, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, had solo careers. My favorite track from John Renbourn was the instrumental named The Hermit: ruclips.net/video/3uP7FAZ3vXI/видео.html Also checkout Renbourn's duet with Dorris Henderson on "The Time Has Come".
Thanks so much! This song was super interesting, and we had never heard of them before. Appreciate you!