#bert jansch

[ninetimesbluedemo]

yeah yeah, bert jansch’s gender, we’ve all wanted it

[jt1674]

[boatnation]

[thecabinsixwitch]

chb cabin aesthetics: 18/?

🛠️🔥 Hephaestus - Cabin 9 ⚙️🧱

Out walking in the country / Met a bold jolly blacksmith / He was shoeing a lively mare / And he was singing a strange air / One for the master / One for the owner / But none for the poor boy / A-doing the best he can

“The Blacksmith” - Bert Jansch

• requested by anonymous

(feel free to send me moodboard requests!)

[thepentangle]

[de-salva]

BERT JANSCH & JOHN RENBOURN (Pentangle) - Jack the Orion (1970)

[wehrwolf]

[1264doghouse]

John Renbourne & Bert Jansch

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Bert Jansch & Finn Kalvik - Norwegian Television, May 7, 1973

It's been on YouTube for several years, but for some reason I had never seen this quite wonderful half-hour of Bert Jansch performing with Norwegian singer-songwriter Finn Kalvik. I blame you! OK, not really. But someone should have told me, this is good shit.

The setup couldn't be simpler. After a very brief intro from a gloriously mustachioed host, Bert and Finn sit on a floral print couch in an admirably barren studio space and trade tunes, sometimes accompanying one another, sometimes just providing an audience. The black-and-white cinematography is terrific, very intimate; guitar nerds will love the closeups of Jansch's hands as he plays. As ever, the dude makes it look easy, but (as Kalvik's reactions occasionally betray) it most certainly is not easy.

Bert is obviously the main draw, but Finn (who is new to me) is very good as well, sort of like a Norwegian Jackson C. Frank or something. I'll have to check him out further ...

[souverian]

🦜: Bert Jansch ~ Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning (1974)

[capturing-earths-beauty]

Pentangle - Reflection

from 1972

This recording is one of my favorites, every note is perfection. This song is a true jam! It blends folk, traditional, and jazz with psychedelic rock sounds in such a beautiful way.

The video is also amazing. The camera angles, and use of double exposure from multiple cameras and overall very artsy and surreal look is just captivating. Sorry to sound cheesy, I just love every aspect of this performance and video.

A little technical nerd enthusiasm about the production. This was captured with TV cameras that very likely used a Vidicon camera tube. (Camera tubes are very similar to their CRT TV counterparts but capture images rather than produce them. I won't get into that detail here) These cameras have a characteristic of darkening bright areas of the image or even creating a black circle around a very bright highlight. This results in a very interesting tonality to the image. This video looks like it was transferred from expensive video tape to film for storage which is where the grain and dust comes from which adds another layer of abstraction. When this was produced, there was no such possibility with video, as there is with film and modern cameras, to record multiple camera feeds at once. So every cross-fade, every double exposure, and every cut, was done live during the performance. Editing video in post wasn't an option. It was possible to record multi-tack audio and mix in post, and add that back to the video, but it was likely mixed live as well. I wish I could get my hands on one of these cameras but they are very large, expensive, and rare in working order.

[radiophd]

bert jansch -- a woman like you

[jt1674]

And Death he loved the glass & steel He loved the sure things that he could feel He loved the bright shine of beaten gold But the breath of life he couldn’t hold

[scamallach-1]

Bert Jansch

[originalharmonysalad]

Donovan's "Bert's Blues"" An Unofficial Slideshow Tribute to Bert Jansch

Album Sunshine Superman (1966)

[thepentangle]