KAY HOFFMAN Floret Silva LP/1978 Italy/Medieval Progressive Folk Pock/Sunforest

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KAY HOFFMAN 'Floret Silva' LP (Spain, Sommor Records, Catalogue #SOMM029) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2016 Sommor Records label LP edition of (at the time) unreleased 1977-1978 Medieval Progressive Folk Rock album recorded in Italy by Kay Hoffman (and her large cadre of Italian musicians from that country's vast 1970s Progressive Rock scene.) First issued in Japan in 1985 on the Belle Antique (in a long out of print first LP edition), here now is Sommor Records edition of this much sought after title.

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Sounding at times like Vashti Bunyan fronting Sunforest, Floret Silva is a haunting mix of medieval music and progressive psych folk with Latin lyrics straight from the 13th-century Carmina Burana manuscript. The Floret Silva project was born when minimalist composer Kay Hoffman went to Italy in the mid-'70s. Once there, she met Welsh soprano Jacqueline Darby, who had recently been working with the Italian avant-prog band Pierrot Lunaire. Darby was working on new compositions with RCA producer Vincenzo Micocci in Rome and she asked Hoffman if she was interested in getting involved in a new project. Hoffman agreed and Gaio Chiocchio and Arturo Stalteri of Pierrot Lunaire also joined them on this new venture. Chiocchio travelled from Rome to play the guitar and other friends of Darby's also offered their collaboration. In a short time, Hoffman wrote all the material, inspired by the Carmina Burana and her love of Medieval and Renaissance music. Hoffman also contributed vocals, clavinet, and piano and, with Darby's haunting vocals and an impressive cast of jazz/rock/prog musicians, recorded Floret Silva during 1977 and 1978, under Micocci's guidance. Sadly, RCA backed off and the album went unreleased until a copy of the masters found their way to Japan, where the great Belle Antique label put out the first vinyl edition of Floret Silva in 1985. In 2006, US label Robot Records resurrected it again for its first CD release. After many years out of print on vinyl, Sommor presents a 2016 edition of this lost piece from the '70s Italian underground scene. A visionary album that anticipated the sound practiced by many neo-folk bands some decades later. RIYL: Jan Dukes de Grey, Vashti Bunyan, Sunforest, The Wicker Man, Pierrot Lunaire, Opus Avantra, Current 93, Nico, Gal Costa, The Wooden O, Giles Farnaby's Dream Band. . . . Master tape sound. Includes four-page insert with detailed liner notes by Richard Allen and photos.

- Reissue of minimalist composer Kay Hoffman's late-'70s progressive psych folk masterpiece Floret Silva.
- RIYL: Jan Dukes de Grey, Vashti Bunyan, Sunforest, The Wicker Man, Pierrot Lunaire, Opus Avantra, Current 93, Nico, Gal Costa, The Wooden O, Giles Farnaby's Dream Band. . . .
- Master tape sound.
- Includes four-page insert with detailed liner notes by Richard Allen and photos.
- "This album is like the prettier, more elegant companion piece to Nico's somber medieval explorations on The Marble Index." --Brainwashed
- "This should appeal to experimental psych-folk fans for sure, even if this unique treasure is really something outside almost any genre designation you'd care to come up with!" --Aquarius Records
"An almost perfect fusion of styles that when combined with the archaic language is both haunting and entrancing reminiscent perhaps of the otherworldly atmosphere created by Bo Hansson on his Lord of the Rings album." --Richard Allen

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