KAY HOFFMAN PIERROT LUNAIRE Floret Silva LP Folk Prog

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Artist: Kay Hoffman
Title: Floret Silva
Label: Belle Antique
Catalog#: 8502
Format:     12"  Vinyl LP
Country: Japan
Year: 1985
Condition (cover): EX+
Condition (vinyl): EX

This is a stunningly beautiful and totally unknown female acid-folk masterpiece!!! Originally recorded in 1977~78 by the Italian female trio of Jacqueline Darby (of Pierrot Lunaire), Kay Hoffman and Simo Valzania- who get assisted by some guest musicians as well on some tracks. Some of the best female vocals acid-folk singing I've ever heard! Atmosphere created here is medieval- with troubadour influences, acoustic instrumentation, also some electrical instruments. Great, haunting female choruses, some light progressive touches. Instruments include mellotron, recorders, bouzouki, toy organs, electric guitar, flute, etc.
This is one of my favorite female acid-folk records of all time! There is no obi, although I don't think it came with one.

A great review I found:
"The tumultuous history of Kay Hoffman’s 1977 progressive folk opus Floret Silva is perhaps widely known among aficionados of underground psych folk and Italian prog, but it does indeed bear mentioning for the uninitiated, at least for the purposes of this review. Hoffman was an Italian composer who endeavored to set parts of the legendary Carmina Burana — basically a Thirteenth Century Northern European manuscript containing a series of mostly anonymous religious and spiritual poetry — to music. Assisted by the Italian progressive rock band Pierrot Lunaire (and most notably the vocals of singer Jacqueline Darby), Hoffman composed and produced Floret Silva, an ambitious recording that combined elements of psych folk, psychedelic rock, and Italian prog with overtones of Medieval choral music. Due to a number of factors, including deadlines not met, and possibly the passage of the Seventies psych folk zeitgeist into the void, Floret Silva was not released in 1978 as was Hoffman’s original intention. Instead it was released in 1985 on a small Japanese label, Belle Antique, where it received precious little in the way of international exposure.
Sounding at times like the precursor to the music of Dead Can Dance, Floret Silva contains eerie passages of instrumental rock and medieval folk, and has the somewhat unusual distinction of featuring lyrics sung entirely in Latin, courtesy of the aforementioned Jacqueline Darby. Although the record is heavily informed by progressive rock and even a healthy dose of jazz at times, it falls firmly within the purview of what is commonly known as psych (or acid) folk. Replete with flutes, harpsichord, strings, and melancholic acoustic guitar, Floret Silva is a druggy synthesis of traditional music, medieval chants and ...Seventies musical ornamentation. "  -Oskooly

Tracks:
1. Iste Mundus
2. Floret Silva
3. Exorcisms
4. Intermezzo Chume Chume
5. Ich Will Truren
6. Rondo
7. Mai Tanz
8. Quot Sunt Horae
9. Tot
10. Sonus Dulcis Lyrae
11. Ouverture Zum Fest
12. Intermezzo Fagott Sommer Nacht Promenade
13. Tempus Instat
14. Langueo Vaccilantis
15. Chume Chume
16. Nummus
17. Post Communio Sancti Cyrilli

1. Iste Mundus
2. Floret Silva
3. Exorcisms
4. Intermezzo Chume Chume
5. Ich Will Truren
6. Rondo
7. Mai Tanz
8. Quot Sunt Horae
9. Tot
10. Sonus Dulcis Lyrae
11. Ouverture Zum Fest
12. Intermezzo Fagott Sommer Nacht Promenade
13. Tempus Instat
14. Langueo Vaccilantis
15. Chume Chume
16. Nummus
17. Post Communio Sancti Cyrilli
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