Originally released on the cult `(episodes from) The Field Bazaar' album of the same name and recently featured on The First Active Listeners Acid Folk Sampler.

The Bane Tree

O Campo Bazar was a Portuguese Twilight Zone/Tales of the Unexpected style programme which should have disappeared without a trace as was the TV company’s wishes had it not been for the release of ` (episodios de) O Campo Bazar’. This was a promotional gimmick marketed as `a sampler of instrumental works created especially for the programme’ and has since become a ultra rare curio hiding out with the national collection of Hen’s Teeth.

The original press release states that `the stunning full colour sleeve features O Campo Bazar in horrifically realistic costumes’. This is the only reference ever given to the performers who were - and still are - a mystery. Released in Portugal in 1973 on the Gravacoes Freeworld label this collection of sinister synth led soundscapes is long overdue a rerelease.

Several years later the cult status and mythos of the group/artist brought about the release of `The Bane Tree’– again on the Gravacoes Freeworld label. The artist(s) name had been translated into English - The Field Bazaar - and the (episodes from), which was a clear indication of its TV series roots, had also been translated and kept. It has the feel of being demos and unused tracks from the original recordings although the music is more acoustic and pastoral sounding with greater use having been made of sound effects. The performers remain unknown.

Recently artwork for a previously unknown  (episodes from) The Field Bazaar album `A Tale of Witches, Woodland and half-remember melodies…’ - Unreleased and assumed lost - was discovered in a box of old picture frames at a church jumble sale in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire. A ¼ inch tape also surfaced in 2012 which is now believed to be tracks from the recording sessions for this lost album. So far a tweaked and updated tune `The Musgrave Ritual’ is the only track to have materialized from this lost album. The title again references Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and includes a reading of the ancient ritual from the Sherlock Holmes story of the same name.

The Bane Tree

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