Friday 13 March 2015

It's here!!! and has wonderful reviews!!

Yes, my head is swollen and I am full of pride and probably heading for a fall!

The anthology is now out and is up for sale from my website
http://judydyble.bigcartel.com/

and from Amazon
http://tinyurl.com/pj2whf8

And there's this lovely 4 star review in the Daily Mirror from Gavin Martin

And just look at this 5star review from Dmitry Epstein at www.dmme.net

JUDY DYBLE – Gathering The Threads

Judy Dyble 2015

JUDY DYBLE - Gathering The Threads
JUDY DYBLE – Gathering The Threads
Subtitled “Fifty Years Of Stuff,” a marvelous overview of lost gem’s of English folk rock first decades on the stage and behind the scenes.
She may be praised as a national treasure now, but only core followers were interested in what Judy Dyble‘s been doing in the time when her name didn’t grace the music press pages. And here’s a reward for the aficionados’ loyalty: compiled and issued by the singer herself, this 3CD-box offers a genuine continuity with a fantastic selection of Dyble’s album fare, rarities previously scattered across limited editions and collaborative efforts, and recordings that haven’t seen the light of the day before. More so, it reveals Judy as an intrepid experimentalist as well as traditionalist.
Although ordered chronologically, the collection ends with a recentconcert take on “If I Had A Ribbon Bow” which the chanteuse entered a public eye with, when she fronted FAIRPORT CONVENTION, and their fans will be happy to hear a couple demos from 1967. One of these is the deeply emotional “One Sure Thing” that Dyble would revisit in a crunchier, almost punk setting with THE CONSPIRATORS in 2008, on a single housed on CD2, yet there are earlier tracks – two home recordings from 1964, “Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies” showing the 15-year-old artist not afraid to infuse an Appalachian tune with her own, English personality. Yet in 1966, in the company of Richard Thompson, she went much further, for a riveting folk-tinged improvisation, present on the first disc in a much abridged form than is on the source tape and throwing a bridge to Judy’s later sonic adventures like solo “Seventh Whorl” or “Noh Kro Poh” that she notched for JOXFIELD PROJECT.
In such a context, the singer’s work with GILES GILES & FRIPP in 1968 feels only logical, tracks like “Make It Today” demonstrating Dyble’s talent at handling jazzier material, which is also manifested on 2014’s outtake “RadioWaves” – the duet with Jackie McAuley could have been a reunion of TRADER HORNE whose tapes are absent from “Threads” due to contractual reasons – and it was Judy who first recorded “I Talk To The Wind” that she updated on 2006’s solo album “The Whorl” to add magic and maturity to it. There’s a woman’s touch to this ballad, too, but the singer was enchanted enough with Greg Lake‘s approach to appropriate his “C’est La Vie” for her "Talking With Strangers" in 2009 and take it to crystalline heights. Judy’s ability to adapt and transform comes forth on a backing vocals job be it in the 2012 on “Weather Changes” for DODSON AND FOGG or back in 1970 on G.F. Fitzgerald’s “May Four.”
The ’70s saw Dyble disappear into family life, yet it didn’t deter her from singing, and Mike Batt was smitten with Judy voice, so one may only wonder why the richly orchestrated “Better Side Of Me” stopped in 1972 at a demo stage, as did the slide-adorned merry vocalizing on “I Hear A Song” from the following year. Still, there’s a gap between those and her psychedelic version of “See Emily Play” from 1982, when Dyle worked with Adrian Wagner, and then to 2004, when Judy returned to action to stay on. The comeback is reflected on “Going Home” from “Enchanted Garden” where the erstwhile folk sensibility gets married to a cosmic buzz of a soundscape before unwinding into an almost orchestral “Lost In Fingest” – and it was at this point that she opened up for epic compositions.
The artist breathes transparent fire into “Shining” whose “I am lost for words” refrain lingers in one’s mind long after its rays dissolve in vibrant silence, although her longest suites – LP side-long “Harpsong” and “The Sisterhood Of Ruralists” – aren’t part of the box. Scope aside, it’s nigh on impossible to imagine gentle Judy in a metal mode, yet here she is, grafting a second voice to “Every Sentimental Moment” on a KINGS CROSS single in 2009, but the title piece on “Talking With Strangers” finds Dyble in her very element – piano-backed and soaring, while freezing her flight down to a faux-fairy tale of “Wintersong” off 2013’s "Flow And Change".
High or low, though, Judy Dyble is so natural – an integral part of the nature – that she’s mesmerizing throughout. With threads gathered into a fine tapestry, this collection opens the doors to her second spring: she’s a treasure, indeed.
*****

Thursday 5 February 2015

I am still here! Honest!

It's February and I have still got the remains of a cold from December. Bleeeurrgh! Would you care to hear what's happening in the world of Jude? Going to tell you anyway...
For the last seven years or so I have been attempting to get together an anthology of music that I have been a part of or collaborated with. And it's finished. 50 Years of Stuff. Gathering the threads. Demos, odd electronics, recordings from 1964 - 2014, some released on actual albums, some released but not generally heard, and some rarely if ever heard at all
I am just waiting to get the finished (limited) amount of copies back from the manufacturers and then they will be available from my shop http://www.judydybleshop.com/ very soon. In other news I have three gigs in the offing
March and April will see me and my band playing at three places. Two in London and one in Oxfordshire
Here's all the info!
GIG 1
St Pancras Old Church
Pancras Road, London, N1 1UL
Friday 27th March 2015
at 7.30 pm
We are very lucky to have Steve Bingham to join us on violin on this evening
and we will be supported by the very lovely Bess Atwell
 GIG 2
MANOR FARM Parlour Concerts
Manor Farm,Somerton Road, Ardley, Oxon, OX27 7NS
Saturday April 11th 2015
at 8pm
Places are available by invitation only, if you would like to come please contact them
It's a gorgeous converted milking parlour in a beautiful setting with charming hosts. Space is limited but it is a lovely intimate venue
GIG 3
HALF MOON PUTNEY
93 Lower Richmond Road, London SW15 1EU, Tel. 020 8780 9383
Sunday 19th April 2015
at 8pm
So lovely to be playing here at this iconic venue.
The supporting act will be duo SUGAR MAGNOLIA
There may be another supporting act but I am waiting for confirmation :-)

Right! That'll do for now!