Reflection

Belatedly forming an appreciation for the music of the folk/rock/jazz/blues quintet Pentangle during the pandemic, I obtained a 2-CD compilation of theirs and imagined that would be that. Last year though, I happened to find a fairly early pressing of their second album Sweet Child in a local used record shop and impulsively bought it for a tenner. That would have been a better bargain if both of the two discs in it were original: LP#1 in the copy I’d picked up had been swapped in from a later (worse-sounding) re-press.

The other month I found an early-’70s copy of their fifth album Reflection in another nearby emporium. While the gatefold sleeve (shown above) wasn’t in the best of shape, the disc within sounded very good. And it only cost me a few pounds. Now here I am hoping I might find albums nos. 1, 3 & 4 too. Perhaps I’ll eventually let the CD compilation go. Meanwhile I’ve been watching some of the wealth of fascinating footage of the group to be found on YouTube. This performance, for example, filmed for Belgian television in 1972, includes three of the songs from Reflection.