The Music from Bagpuss

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

12th of February, 1974, and for an audience of small children at 1:45pm, a life irrevocably coloured by the wayward wanderings of one saggy cloth cat. Some 44 years later and Earth Recordings opens the door to Bagpuss & Co. once again, revealing for the first time the original music in all its newly-mastered splendor. The 32 tracks that make up the main body of the compositions are – like all good folk music – a patchwork of traditional pieces, half- remembered tunes and pure improvisation. It’s