1. Youngs has an extensive discography that spans both the experimental and more traditional songwriting worlds, including various releases on
distinguished labels such as Forced Exposure, Table of the Elements and VHF.

2. Richard Youngs’ various collaborations keep him in the constant eye of the public. His five most recent records for Jagjaguwar (Sapphie, Making
Paper, May, Airs of the Ear, River Through Howling Sky, & The Naive Shaman) have all garnered the highest of press accolades.

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ichard Youngs is the king of the progressive minimalists. Melody Maker has called him no less than the “grand-meister of contemporary British

improv, spiritual son of Eddie Prevost and Maddy Prior; gentle manipulator of English hymn-notics and religious incantations; protege, chal-
lenger and radicaliser of folk, blues, rock, minimalism and improvisation; translator for the sea and the rain and the sky; ambassador to war and
peace, to love and anguish,” and “poet-seducer of souls.”

Now two of his most important works are available in the vinyl format.

Sapphie (JAG019LP)

Now available for the first time as a vinyl LP. Originally issued as CD in 1998 by Oblique Recordings, Sapphie was Richard Youngs’ fifth solo full-
length and quite a unique album in his already unique oeurve.

Made up of three acoustic tracks—spanning over 37 minutes in length—featuring just classical guitar and voice, Sapphie is quiet and introspective.
The songs feel like an intimate journey by hand through a song cycle of loss and renewal. Within the context of his massive and ever-growing body
of work, Sapphie is his most song-based and arguably his most personal. Fans of reclusive sages like Nick Drake, Anne Briggs and Robert Wyatt
will most appreciate the timeless quality inherent in Youngs’ songs.

Advent (JAG062LP)

Originally released in 1990 in the vinyl format on Youngs’ own No Fans label, this title has been reissued twice in the CD format (most recently by
Jagjaguwar.) Jagjaguwar is now proud to reissue this very important work on vinyl as well. Advent became a true underground success story, a criti-
cal darling, with Alan Licht, for example, putting it on his “minimal top ten list” in the publication Halana. “It is a record by an intense young
man,” writes Richard Youngs, in an essay packaged with the record.

“A three-part composition for piano, voice, and ultra-nasty oboe and electric guitar, Advent indicated signs of life in a genre long dormant in the

80s ‘experimental’ scene. It continues the tradition from [Terry Riley’s] Reed Streams on down with gusto.”—Alan Licht’s “Minimal Top Ten List”,
Halana

Richard Youngs Vinyl Reissues

on JAGJAGUWAR

Release date: October 24th, 2006

Sapphie catalog no: JAG019

Format: LP LP UPC: 656605201917

Advent catalog no: JAG062

Format: LP LP UPC: 656605206219

LP BOX LOT: 30 units

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