'Women lay silent with dreams in their hair' –
This phrase, from the song
“The Sisterhood of Ruralists,” is the best way to describe Judy Dyble’s soft
and cuddly Folk Rock music on her new Album, “Flow and
Change.” Even when they mature, girls
love girl’s music, even more so the more they mature.
Judy’s soft, dark and gracefully
aged voice is enveloped by sparkling piano, floating strings, soft keyboards
and a quiet rock band. Sometimes a song does get a
bit stronger and louder but the electric guitar is confidently placed at the
side of the stage. Even when a rock warrior like
Pat Mastelotto gets behind the drum kit and a rock arrangement dominates a
song, the tracks remain lyrical and aesthetic. They are not
aggressive or masculine. They are never edgy or wild. But still, even without
instrumental extravagance and “prickly” parts, the sweet Sunday morning mood
does not fade.
Judy Dyble career began back
in the 60s of the last century with the Incredible String Band. She went on to
Fairport Convention for their debut album. Then went looking for a new band
with Ian McDonald and found Giles, Giles and Fripp who later became King
Crimson. The demo recordings from that time were released in 2001 as “The
Brondesbury Tapes”. Judy sang on an early version of “I Talk To The Wind” which
was released in 1976.
Soon after that, she formed
Trader Horne, joined the remains of Delivery and then, in the early 70s, she
vanished from the progressive music scene altogether. In the early 80s she appeared briefly and again in 1997 and 2002 when she
joined Fairport Convention on stage at their festival.
Judy Dyble began recording
under her own name in 2004 with “Enchanted
Garden
Harmonious string and horn
arrangements float around Judy’s voice, accompanied by bass and piano, the
majority of the 10 songs are “ballady” and elegiac, soft and lulling. Instrumental
freaks will be unchallenged so they have to surrender to Judy’s fairy voice,
which seems to come from Barnaby’s World, and embrace the esoteric world view
and expressive love of nature, the melancholy and dreaminess.
Even if younger listeners might slip from the chair in boredom, the older Folk Rock Garde will shed tears of nostalgia while taking in the beholden privacy of this sound pill.
And why not?
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