The official website of Midas Recording artists Folkal Point
Folkal Point Music - The Record Label
Folkal Point Music is an independent record label that focuses on unsigned artists wishing to record and produce their own CDs. Folkal Point Music has all the capabilities of many larger record labels to enable artists to record the highest possible quality music, but offers a refreshing attitude towards creativity and with the back up team of experience to make it work for you. All intellectual property remain the ownership of the artists and there are no punitive or target based contracts that so often curb creativity rather than encourage it.
Folkal Point Music - The Website
The Folkal Point Music website is currently under development to include its own pay-for-download shop where you can buy high quality MP3 recordings of local artists, a news channel that will keep you up to date with local music events and its own version of iPlayer where artists' promotional recordings and videos can be played and viewed.
Other features are planned and the site will be updated as these ideas develop.
Folkal Point - The Album
In 1971 four teenagers from Bristol, England decided to record an album of
traditional and modern English and American folk songs. Only five hundred LPs
were pressed, half of which were damaged and destroyed in a flood. The remaining
copies then embarked on an amazing journey over the next forty years to become the
most sought after British traditional folk album ever produced.
Originally published on the now dissolved UK based Midas Recordings label (no association with Midas Records of Nashville, founded in 2005) the album is neither groundbreaking in its musical direction, contains none of the artists original material, and claims no unique status other than being extremely desirable to vinyl collectors. What it does have however, is an acoustic 'other worldliness' which differentiates it from other artists of the time, giving the listener the 'feel good' factor of being in the depths of Folkal Point's 'enchanted forest' as described by Time Has Told Me magazine.
Combine all this with haunting female vocals and precision guitar playing and you have what can only be described as a truly outstanding collection of tracks from one of Bristol's finest and best kept musical secrets (unless of course you're a vinyl collector!)
And, the good news is, these guys are making a new album. OK, for some folk, forty years is a lifetime, but in the 'enchanted forest' forty years is just a heartbeat.
Trust me I know these guys as friends (and the new stuff is to die for)
Len Greenwood