Fly On Strangewings The Anthology (3CD)
by Marian Segal & Jade

Released: 25th August 2017


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In the pantheon of rare Folk Rock albums from the genre’s golden era of the early Seventies,FLY ON STRANGEWINGS by Jade is a bona fide classic.

Largely ignored on its release on DJM in1970, the album is now widely acclaimed, which has led collectors and connoisseurs toconsider Jade’s main singer and songwriter, Marian Segal, as a much-overlooked talent.

FLY ON STRANGEWINGS is now treated to a deluxe 3-CD edition which finally tells the full storyof Marian Segal’s musical career. Compiled and annotated with Marian’s involvement, thisnew package offers a second disc of early recordings of Marian with fellow Jade member DaveWaite, while Disc Three brings the story more up-to-date with solo and Marian Segal Bandrecordings.

Disc One re-presents the classic Fly On Strangewings album with seven contemporaneousbonus tracks, two of which are previously unissued.
Before becoming Jade, Dave Waite and Marian (or Marianne) Segal were a duo, playing theuniversity circuit and in London clubs at the height of the Swinging London era. Their musicwas a fusion of British and American folk, but already contained many original elements,including superlative vocals, in the vein of Sandy Denny and The Strawbs. This period isremembered on Disc Two, recordings which have been out of print for a decade. Four tracksare previously unissued.

Disc Three includes two historic mid-70s recordings with Jeff Wayne (of War of The Worldsfame).

The albums include a host of session talent from the 1970s including Dave Mattacks, HerbieFlowers, Clem Cattini, Pete Sears, John Wetton, Chris Spedding and Terry Cox as well assweeping string arrangements by Phil Dennys (Rodriguez).

DISC ONE

JADE

FLY ON STRANGEWINGS

1. AMONGST ANEMONES

2. RAVEN

3. FLY ON STRANGEWINGS

4. MAYFLY

5. ALAN’S SONG

6. BAD MAGIC

7. CLIPPERSHIP

8. FIVE OF US

9. REFLECTIONS ON A HARBOUR WALL

10. MRS. ADAMS

11. FLY ME TO THE NORTH

12. AWAY FROM THE FAMILY

BONUS TRACKS

13. BIG YELLOW TAXI

14. CAROLINA IN MY MIND

15. CHICAGO RADIO SPOTS

16. MOSES

17. RAVEN (REHEARSAL) *

18. SEPTEMBER SONG

(REHEARSAL)

19. HOW CAN THAT BE RIGHT

(DEMO) *

* previously unissued



DISC TWO

DAVE WAITE & MARIAN SEGAL

PAPER FLOWERS

1. PAPER FLOWERS

2. IT’S REALLY QUITE ALRIGHT

3. I CAN’T LOVE YOU MORE

4. SAFE IN YOUR CASTLE

5. MIRANDA IN THE SUN (DEMO)

6. PERCY’S SONG

7. JUST LIKE TOM THUMB’S

BLUES

8. DAWN SONG

9. MILKWOOD DRAGON

10. SEPTEMBER SONG

11.ALL THE REASONS

12. RAINBOW

13.I THINK IT’S GOING TO RAIN

TODAY

14. MIRANDA (DEMO)

15. RELEASED

16.ALL THE GOOD TIMES

17.IT’S REALLY QUITE ALRIGHT

(DEMO)

18.I CAN’T LOVE YOU MORE

(DEMO)

19. COUNTRY MEETS FOLK

(RADIO INTRODUCTION)

20. SHINE A CANDLE (LIVE)

21. CIRCLES (LIVE)

22. THE HEDGEHOG SONG *

23. THE DOVE *

24. CHELSEA MORNING *

25.ALAN’S SONG (DEMO) *

26. PAPER FLOWERS (DEMO)

* previously unissued

DISC THREE



MARIAN SEGAL

KISS OF THE BUDDHA

1. CIRCLE ROUND THE SUN

2. MIDDLING MAN

3. GOLD DUST AND DIRT

(SONG FOR LEONARD COHEN)

(DEMO) ^ *

4. SIT YOURSELF DOWN (DEMO) ^

5. LUCKY SEVEN (DEMO) ^ *

6. FLY ME TO THE NORTH (LIVE) *

7. DEAL OUT THE CARDS

8. MIRANDA (MASTER)

9. PEACEFUL EASY FEELING *

10. SO SURE TONIGHT *

11. KISS OF THE BUDDHA

12. OUTSIDE THE WALL *

13.GYPSY GIRL *

14. THIS LIFE (DEMO) *

15. THE WATER IS WIDE

16. BETTER SIDE OF ME (DEMO) ^ *

17. TOPANGA (DEMO) ^ *

18. SWALLOW (DEMO) ^

19. BULLSEYE ON A RAINY NIGHT

(DEMO) ^

I always loved Jade (I have both a Korean and a Japanese mini LP CD of it), never much liked the acoustic folkie stuff MS did though which seems to comprise the other two discs in this set. There has been a double CD set in the past that had most of the 2nd disc on it as well.

There's a 7 CD box set of Pentangle albums due soon as well not to mention a big old box of Fairport Convention discs from across the years.

I am rather more attracted to the upcoming three disc clam box set:

'Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk & Singer-Songwriters: 1966-73'

I expect there's a lot that's been reissued before but I like the look and the mix of it.

Disc: 1
1. Do You Believe - Melanie
2. Blessed Are... - Joan Baez
3. Light Flight - The Pentangle
4. Foolish Seasons - Dana Gillespie
5. Someone to Talk My Troubles to - Judy Roderick
6. Auntie Aviator - John & Beverley Martyn
7. Flying Away - The Serpent Power
8. It Could Have Been Better - Joan Armatrading
9. Morning Morgantown - Jude
10. If Not By Fire - Mandy More
11. Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp - Laura Nyro
12. I Thought I Knew the Answers - Susan Pillsbury
13. Give Her the Day - Jaki Whitren
14. By the Sea - Wendy & Bonnie
15. Come and Stay With Me - Jackie DeShannon
16. Something Better - Marianne Faithfull
17. An Everyday Consumption Song - Spirogyra
18. The Milk of the Tree - Polly Niles
19. Chelsea Girls - Nico
20. Reverie for Roslyn - Mary-Anne

Disc: 2
1. Different Drum - Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt
2. Please (Mk. II) - Eclection
3. Five of Us - Jade
4. Who Has Seen the Wind? - The Simon Sisters
5. Jesus Was a Cross Maker - Judee Sill
6. January's Snows - The Woods Band
7. In My Loneliness - Trader Horne
8. Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) - Janis Ian
9. I Was - Lily & Maria
10. Feeling High - Mellow Candle
11. Tomorrow Come Someday - Tomorrow Come Someday
12. My Silks and Fine Array - Julie Covington
13. Red Wine and Promises - Norma Waterson
14. Mr Fox - Mr Fox
15. The Dream Tree - Buffy Sainte-Marie
16. Munching the Candy - The Academy featuring Polly Perkins
17. Late November - Sandy Denny
18. Tomorrow Your Sorrow - Hendrickson Road House
19. Mornings - Chuck & Mary Perrin
20. Mr Rubin - Lesley Duncan

Disc: 3
1. Come Into the Garden - Chimera
2. Early Morning Blues and Greens - Diane Hildebrand
3. Rainy Day - Susan Christie
4. Autumn Lullaby - Bridget St. John
5. Ballad (of the Big Girl Now and a Mere Boy) - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
6. Windy - Ruthann Friedman
7. The Lonely - Design
8. Mirage - Shelagh McDonald
9. Aderyn Llwyd (Sparrow) - Mary Hopkin
10. Love Song - Vashti Bunyan
11. Winter's Going - Bonnie Dobson
12. Sandman's Song - Anne Briggs
13. When Will I Be Loved - The Bunch
14. The Lady and the Well - Carolanne Pegg
15. Think of Rain - Margo Guryan
16. Story of Our Time/Beneath This Sky - Ithaca
17. Murdoch - Trees
18. Banquet on the Water - The Sallyangie
19. Pass the Night - Emily Muff
20. Morgan the Pirate - Mimi Faria

The female 3 Cds looks pretty good, the only little complaint to me is the 2 tracks by Carolanne Pegg/Mr.Fox. I would have put only one of the two, got instead an Eclection track sung by Kerrilee Male and a Dorris Henderson song on her own

Thanks for that lads,

Silver Jade (as they were known in the USA) Lps are still quite cheap and I managed to pick up one still in shrink recently for a good price.