Flat, Baroque And Berserk

Artist: Roy Harper
Label: Science Friction
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 679076770287
EAN: 0679076770287
ASIN: B00004S2NP

Release Date: 1997-10-01

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Tracks:

Don't You Grieve
I Hate The White Man
Feeling All The Saturday
How Does It Feel
Goodbye
Another Day
Davey
East Of The Sun
Tom Tiddler's Ground
Francesca
Song Of The Ages
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Customer Reviews:

Roy writes, plays and sings like a dream!.......2006-01-06

Over the many years that I have been listening to this album the songs have become burned into my brain. This is the sound that made me want to play the guitar! To my ears he plays like nobody else, an acoustic but attacking style which is by turns thrilling, sensitive, stirring etc. Some of the songs are beyond sublime. Tom Tiddler's Ground, Francesca, East of the Sun, How Does It Feel, Feeling all the Saturday.
You should buy it. You will not regret it.
While you are at it, buy Stormcock as well.

"Roy Harper's acoutic tour de force"!!!!!.......2004-09-28

Hello music fans!!Whatever the reason you checked in here, i fully endorse all the other reviewers have to say!Released in 1970, and still as relevant to-day, this is definitely one of Mr. Harper's most important albums-an acoustic "tour de force"!!!By now he'd recorded 3 or 4 albums & was beginning to create his amazing unique songs!With the c.d. age, i've gotta say this album just sounds WONDERFUL on compact disc!!Check out "Don't you grieve" a twist on the Judas Iscariot tale, the ever-popular "I hate the Whiteman"...all Harper fans know what an epic song this is.it was screamed for live many, many occasions in the 70's /80's ..i was there!!.."Francesca"..gee, i wish i could write a song as gentle & beautiful as this."East of the Sun".......'where our lovin' was done'.........Roy you have written some of the most beautiful,beautiful acoustic love -songs of our entire generation!!!"Folkjokeopus" has to be one of the most satisfying acoustic 'folk' albums EVER.My favourite being possibly "hOW DOES IT FEEL"?..WHAT A SONG!!A reviewer on this same site has wonderfully mentioned the fact that Roy Harper almost makes Bob Dylan seem "safe"!!!I know what he means, God bless him!!.."Folkjokeopus is an ESSENTIAL folk album of epic proportions, from a guy with one of the greatest of singer-songwriter vocals!!!-BUY!!!!!!!

Flat Out Good.......2004-04-11

a CLIFFORD HODGE* review

Caution: Don't play this one for your priest/pastor. Live cut before small audience: "...Yes,I hate the white man, and I hate the man.....who turned you all loose." Even I don't have the kind of brass pair to sing something like that. Harper has never given a ___, you know. A very good album, showing that Harper and mayber Ian Anderson stand alone in the British folk/blues/jazz genre for the ability to blend piquancy and biting wit and commentary with a sweet pathos that does not veer off course into cheap sentimentality. "Francesca" will stick in your head as a love song of almost religious depth and spirituality. It is not surprising that he is a friend and musical collaborator of Kate Bush. Not his best work, but for many, it would be. It's worth owning, and if you like British folk with a bit of an edge, you should buy it. I know CD's are costly, but I bought some of my Harper LP's mail order, and paid just as much. HE NEVER WILL BE POPULAR. He is for the few who like John Martyn, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley (that's the dead father), Phil Ochs, Steeleye Span, and more obscure British folk. If you want the best, the old stuff, you have to work at it, buy on line. Your stores don't have that kind of brass pair either, they don't even have...well, never mind.
Cliff

*nom de plume

Trustworthy Harper.......2004-03-03

I just got the CD release on the mail and I am hearing it right now as I write these words.
I am a big acoustic music fan (from the Likes of C,S,N & Y; woodie and Aerlo Guthrie, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Country Joe McDonald, Silvio Rodriguez, Roy Brown, Pablo Milanes etc.)and this is the first time I come across Roy Harper's music although I have known about his existance since...say...forever.

I must say that a man who writes lyrics like this and plays music as honest and intense as this must be a trustworthy person and deservers my total admiration and respect. Men like these are so in need in these desperate days we are living (specially here in america). The music is intense, roughly honest but, at the same time humble and sweet. The music is huge, important and still relevant although this album dates back to 1970.
I only compare his to the writing and performing skills of cuban protest singer Silvio Rodriguez.
Harper makes Dylan seem like a washington burocrat with nothing important to say ( no offence to Bob fans).
A must have to all those interested in 60's and 70's british rock.

Our most defiant singer-songwriter.......2000-12-11

Here is a musician and poet who has travelled a long way from his acoustic rootes. This album represents the acoustic side edged with an electro quality that at certain moments simply lifts it out of the familiar and into a more dynamic landscape. Flat Baroque and Berserk came out so long ago now, and yet it is as relevant now as it was in 1970. This album represents a groundshift in Roy's writing, due in part to the luxury of recording in a quality studio, but also because at this time Roy Harper was writing and playing with a confidence only hinted at in his earlier Folkjokeopus. From the opening lines of 'Don't you Grieve' through to the preamble this man is famous for leading into 'I Hate the Whiteman' we get the feeling that this is personal. And it certainly is. Harvest had a knack of putting out good albms that spoke from the heart during this period, (Kevin Ayers; Pink Floyd's 'Meddle') and Roy harper was the spokesperson for a generation who would later take environmental issues, metaphysics and the death of politics seriously. 'How Does it Feel' is a wonderful song. But so are 'East of the Sun - a summery song that captures a moment, and 'Tom Tiddler's Ground' - playful and evocotive. This album comes immediately before Stormcock, which is possibly one of the most carefully crafted albums to date, despite its age. But I love Flat Baroque and Bezerk because it is an album in the widest sense - with images, themes, ideas and poetry. If you like English music with a seriously defiant edge from a singer-songwriter who has a lot to say and play, then give this a spin. Roy Harper is one of England's finest songwriters. Sample the magic.

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