Description:	Ltd yellow vinyl 7" on Autumn Ferment Records
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Folk/Folk Rock
	Label:	Autumn Ferment
	Price:	£4.69
	Availability:	In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day.

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...according to our Phil on 02 July 2009.

Autumn Ferment have a new series of Seasonal 7"'s coming your into your immediate area. The first one is a split between Emily Scott and Helene Renault and as it's called 'Summer' then you can expect a pair of Summery songs! Emily Scott makes a delightful summery pop song featuring a chap from the Incredible String Band playing banjo. It's just right for this weather! She has a lovely voice alright... I'm only half way through the song and succumbing to it's slightly folky jazzy charms. Delightfully simple like a cucumber sandwich and a small pot of tea...Helene Renault on the flipside makes a more European sounding 60's hazy pop sound. Again it's all very innocent and charming sounding... this one is recorded by a chap from the Papercuts in San Francisco (for that genuine 60's psyche pop vibe) and it features a lady from the Skygreen Leopards knocking out some rhythmic shit (ie she's playing drums and whatnots). Very lovely sounding 7" which is going down a treat today!! 3 more seasons to go!

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Sound clips for Pond Dipping/ Bumblebee by Emily Scott/ Helene Renaut: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. 7" (vinyl), Autumn Ferment, AFR-SS01, £4.69.

What their label says...

Starting the Seasonal Sevens series with two perfectly sweet and strawberry flavoured summertime folk/ pop songs that usher in some summer sun from Emily Scott and Hélène Renaut.
 Side A’s ‘Pond Dipping’ is a jazzy little punt down river that evokes the quintessential British summer of a bygone era when hot summers seemed predictable, school holidays went on for months and time was joyfully wasted away messing about in the water with a net and a jam jar of tadpoles and water boatmen. Emily’s vocals are sweet and full of harmony and, with Malcolm Le Maistre (ex-Incredible String Band) and Pete Baynes bringing banjo and ukulele to the track, an ‘old timey’ feel is captured. With ragtime shuffle, chinking percussion and a spiralling, quirky recorder solo this foot tapping sepia toned track meanders into a delicious end.
If side A reflects the first early flush of summer then double A side’s ‘Bumblebee’ is lazy- hazy midsummer, when the grass is long, people are dreamy with cider and sunburn, wildflowers dot the wheat fields and the drone of insects and drifting flower seed fills the air. Recorded by Jason Quever (Papercuts) in his San Francisco studio, Hélène‘s ode to the bumblebee captures the vintage analogue warmth and bubblegum, psych folk of the 1960’s, bringing a distinct and refined European flavour with her poetic lyrics and signature accent. Mellowness is in abundance with Jasmyn Wong of The Skygreen Leopards providing the rhythm section, performing with the laid back pace of a wasp drunk on fermenting apples. Shimmering glockenspiel and sugar coated backing vocals turn the track into a sultry summer romance, casually heading in the direction of a hot and heavy Indian summer.
Released on summer yellow 7” vinyl and kept to a very limited 300 hand numbered copies, this split release is the first of four records in our coloured split 7” vinyl series, the Seasonal Sevens.