View basket “Walk The Way The Wind Blows” has been added to your basket. Ptarmigan Ptarmigan SKU: LIONLP137 Barcode: 778578313715 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Lion Productions Released Date: 20th August 2014 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Insert Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Ptarmigan recorded the basic tracks for what would eventually become their only album in 1972. It then took the band’s producer and manager, renowned flautist Paul Horn, more than a year to find a label willing to release such unusual music. Finally, in 1974, Columbia Records released Ptarmigan’s album to critical acclaim, and minimal sales. The music of Ptarmigan is deep and authentic and intimate; it’s reflective sounds are well suited to meditating on a landscape, an emotion, a bottle of wine, or maybe while staring at a flickering candle. Sometimes it is free-flowing and jazz-oriented; at other times it has the mystical feel of a shamanistic ceremony, fueled by Eastern-tinged harmonies. But in the end, this album is about the sea: Ptarmigan was, after all, from Vancouver Island, and the musicians were well-versed in the contradictory moods of the surrounding ocean. Hypnotic, mystical, largely instrumental tracks, all based on a complex interplay of recorder, hand drums and acoustic guitar—one of those hidden gems that make life better when you discover them all these years later. Rated by many as the best “folk/progressive” and/or “folk/psych” album ever made. As one contemporary review said, this is “music from musicians, for musicians, late-at-night, last joint music.” Our Lion Productions reissue comes with a massive fold-out insert which includes lyrics, liner notes from the band, and a multitude of photos and historical mementos. Artist Ptarmigan Genre Folk Label Lion Productions Buying Options 1LP Includes Insert Format 1LP , Includes Insert Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Rise 2. Go Dancing 3. The Island: Intro 4. The Island: Préambule 5. The Island: Main Theme 6. Vancouver: Reflections 7. Vancouver: The City 8. Night of the Gulls: On the Water 9. Night of the Gulls: On the Wind 10. An Hymn to the Ocean & The Great Northern Lake: Ocean Song 11. An Hymn to the Ocean & The Great Northern Lake: Afternoon rain 12. 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