Биография

www.caedmonsreturn.com Famed for their first eponymous album, a collectors' grail: 1978, a small student folk rock band in Edinburgh released a farewell album to celebrate five years of making music together. The album was made on a shoestring budget and only 500 copies were pressed. The band started writing again in 2008: 30th anniversary of the original, making the critically acclaimed A Chicken to Hug album on CD & on-line. “If you purchase only one album this year, make it this one.” Lins Honeyman, Cross Rhythms “What you had in 1978 you still have now… more, please.” Pete Ryder “A spirited collection by an older, wiser group…” Uncut The Caedmon eponymous album remaster: forty years on, the 1978 record remains a collector’s item. A new re-release on the Guerssen record label is out, & it has been described as one of the best folk rock albums of the seventies. RARE: on the 40th anniversary 2008 they started writing again, creating documentaries: resulting in a new package on vinyl called RARE, a 12″ LP and 7″ single in a sleeve with insert: seven new songs, six from 1975 and a surprise track. ....' this delightful addition to the stop/start Caedmon canon is very much a game of two halves with the first side presenting seven new songs in a way that is very much more reflective of the band's original folk sound'.... - Lins Honeyman - Crossrhythms. B side contains seven unreleased songs from the '70s, discovered on a 1/4" tape which sound remarkably fresh....