Kissing Spell   Nigel Mazlyn Jones (UK,1976)**°°°

There are not too many nice songwriter albums with some introspective, nice voice and with a serious amount of 12-string guitar playing. After having heard the first track, "On A Singularly Fine Day", I expected such an album, an overall brilliant album, but the songs are not generally similar. Where he takes his time to perform, like on “How High The Moon” (the only track which is somewhat Bob Theil like) it is the best from what I expect from a s-sw creation: introspective and still balanced as expression, by a heart felt expression to the world. The songs/singing perhaps and in general, for fourty percent is more into the direction of singers like Mick Softley. Where the beach and sea subjects calms down the creative soul of Nigel, it’s there where he comes closer to an earlier mentioned gracefulness, -but not yet completely bliss- in “Port Quin Song (the lady on the beach)”. The guitar takes it closer to that feeling on “Ship To Shore” while the singing is still slightly tormented, waiting for some response or return. It is the guitar that then breaks through like flashes of sunlight, then starting to perform something like a dance on the waves, with some electronic studio echo near the end. A brilliant and unique track.  80 % of the album has the acid folk from inside.

Added also are 7 very good bonus tracks, recorded between 1972-1975. I like them very much. Included are two songs : “All Brave Men” (with Moroccan percussion), and “The Hunter and The Lady" (with three acoustic guitars). All other tracks are duo guitar instrumentals with 12-string and 6-string and bass, and on one small track partly percussion. ('Hunters Tale', 'Ships Tales, 'Neap Tide, High Tide and Frozen Waves').

Other audio fragments : 'Take Me Home' , 'The Man and The Deer', 'Follow Every Sunset', 'Reality'.

Info on Nigel : http://www.isleoflight.co.uk/

and on this release : http://www.isleoflight.co.uk/Pages/ship.html

& http://www.isleoflight.co.uk/Pages/ship2.html

label entry : http://www.kissingspell.com/main/kisscat/new

Description : https://www.freakemporium.com/new3/index.cgi?artist=Nigel%20Mazlyn%20Jones

Review of later, guitar driven  album : http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/guitar7.html#anchor_194

acidfolk flavoured Singer/Songwriters reissues / guitarists presents :

Nigel Mazlyn Jones

LP (1976)->CD, CD (1993)

Brainworks Rec.   Nigel Mazlyn Jones : Angels over Water (UK,1993)***°

This album of instrumentals is a collage of pieces selected from five of the six albums issued between 1976 and 1991 along with new recorded material from 1992. The pieces fit well together, and all have a foundation of acoustic guitar, amplified and fuzz guitar with band. All tracks are more or less improvised landscapes, with some small amount of echo on bass and some guitars.. As a whole they make an enjoyable listen. There's some ethereal almost new age progressive rock aspect to the music. ..

Audio : "Eden", "Flying", "Kelda", "The Windsmith", "First Light", "no human interference - Angels Over Water", "from The Great Rock (part 1)"

Info : http://www.isleoflight.co.uk/Pages/angels.html from homepage http://www.isleoflight.co.uk/

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