3000 years with ottilee

CD in digipack with 12 page booklet

• Lost 1969 classic
• Long-awaited reissue
• Full colour 12 page booklet
• Detailed background notes
• Rare images
• Includes two non-album bonus tracks, ‘The Bitterness of Death’ and ‘Make Me or Break Me’

Ottilie Patterson had been a celebrated jazz and blues singer since the 1950s, but enormously expanded her repertoire with this July 1969 release. Taking in a range of songs ancient and modern, set to meticulous orchestral arrangements by Richard Hill, it touches on folk, funk, pop and more and adds up to a powerful and moving statement of her esoteric personality. It has long-awaited first reissue here, together with detailed background notes and rare images.

Track listing:

• Song Of Solomon
• The Orphan
• Latin Drinking Song
• Please Accept My Apologies, Mrs. Pankhurst
• Why So Pale And Wan
• Helen Of Kirkconnell
• The Sound Of The Door As It Closes
• Spring Song
• The Bitterness Of Death
• Ad Uxorem
• Hey, Ho, The Wind And The Rain
• It Was A Lover And His Lass
• Sonnet No. 8
• Mrs. Pankhurst Returns
• The Bitterness Of Death (45 version)
• Make Me Or Break Me (unreleased demo)