Songs Of Love And Loss is the 11th compilation album by English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

/rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Roy Harper

Roy Harper

Roy Harper is an English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since the mid 1960s...

History

In early 2011, Roy Harper

Roy Harper

Roy Harper is an English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since the mid 1960s...

 signed a deal with Believe Digital to release 19 of his albums, for the first time, to the digital market place. This 2 disc, 23 track, compilation was required as an introduction to lead the release campaign and contains songs from 11 of Harpers albums released between 1966 (Sophisticated Beggar

Sophisticated Beggar

Sophisticated Beggar is English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper's debut album. It was released in 1966.-History:The album consists of Harper's poetry backed by acoustic guitar and recorded with a Revox tape machine by Pierre Tubbs....

) and 1992 (Death or Glory?

Death or Glory? (album)

Death or Glory? is the seventeenth studio album by Roy Harper and was released in 1992 following the break up of his nine year relationship.-History:...

). The catalogue is to be released in batches of four over the year.

The album is presented in two volumes and, according to the artist, "...contains songs specially selected from their original records and digitally re-mastered to work as two dynamically unique albums in their own right". According to The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

 the album "...displays the unerring quality and startling originality of his [Harper's] writing".

'Songs of Love and Loss' is also available as a download on Harpers website in both FLAC

FLAC

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 and MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

format.

Disc One

1. "Black Clouds" (2011) – 4:34
2. "Girle" – (2011) 3:04
3. "All You Need Is" (2011) – 5:46
4. "Francesca" – 1:19
5. "East Of The Sun" – 3:02
6. "Little Lady" – 4:19
7. "North Country" – 3:35
8. "I'll See You Again" – 5:02
9. "Naked Flame" – 5:08
10. "Commune" – 4:35
11. "Frozen Moment" – 3:29

Disc Two

1. "Davey" (2011) – 1:31
2. "Another Day" – 2:59
3. "South Africa" – 4:06
4. "Hallucinating Light" – 6:24
5. "Sleeping At The Wheel" – 4:19
6. "Waiting For Godot" – 3:35
7. "The Flycatcher" – 4:09
8. "On Summer Day" – 5:39
9. "Cherishing The Lonesome" – 5:56
10. "My Friend" (2011) – 4:08
11. "One More Tomorrow" – 5:22
12. "Forever" – 3:31