CD and DVD SALES: ARTISAN

CD Mail Order -- Direct -- UK and Worldwide

Artisan disbanded in November 2005, however most CDs and DVDs are still available on mail order from Jacey Bedford and for your peace of mind you can now pay by Paypal using either your credit card or your Paypal account. Order from the Bedspring Music Site by following the BUY links. Note that some CDs are now out of stock at Bedspring and can only be purchased in slimline auto-bootleg versions direct from this site - scroll down and see below for: Christmas Is Come In; Silver and Gold and Our Back Yard.
If you wish to pay by cheque or Visa or Mastercard, please write out your order together with your Visa or Mastercard number and expiry date and post it to us at: 10 Park Head, Birdsedge, Huddersfield, HD8 8XW, UK. In case of query, please e-mail artisan@artisan-harmony.com or phone us in the UK on 01484 606230. Prices shown include all applicable taxes and also include postage worldwide

Artisan at the Paramount DVD - PAL - UK and NTSC - US VERSIONS

BUY

A complete recording of Artisan's last ever concert filmed on 20th November 2005. Great picture and exceptionally fine sound quality. All the Artisan favourite songs and inbetween bits. Especially gorgeous versions of 'Wings' and 'Breathing Space' plus 'Mary Ellen Carter' Formatted for UK and Europe.

£19.50

Live

Artisan Live
BOING 017
CD
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A recording of Artisan's live to air radio concert at WFMT in Chicago in 2002, including links and audience reaction. Featuring many Arti-favourites including What's the Use of Wings and Breathing Space.

Review: Artisan Live! is both the ultimate memento of this class act and the ultimate primer for those who've... Read more...

£13.50

Searching for Yorladale - CD
BOING 8801

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Artisan's first LP from 1988, reissued for the first time on CD. This contains 13 tracks of songs from the poetry of Yorkshire dales dialect poet Dorothy Una Ratcliffe - all set to music by Brian Bedford. The booklet contains a biography of the poet and pix from her family album dating back to the late 1800s

Listen to Mad Old Mike Go to to Jacey's Dorothy Una Ratcliffe page

£13.50

Dancing With Words - CD
BOING 0007

BUY

We think this is probably our best studio album yet (but then we're probably biased!) Fourteen brilliant songs from the pen of Brian Bedford and the tonsils of Artisan. A definite contemporary flavour with jazz and gospel influences and also some of the most sumptuous harmonies you'll hear. Includes 'I Saw Another You' and 'Farewell Song'

£13.50

Paper Angels - CD
BOING 9806
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Songs from the splendiferous Artisan Stuff the Turkey Christmas Show, written by contemporary song writers. Includes 9 Brian Bedford originals. Songs silly and serious, but not a traditional carol in sight. Includes "First Christmas Away from Home," "Christmas Child," "Big Red," " The Snowman's Song" and "Christmas Eve 1914"

£13.50

Breathing Space - CD
BOING 9302
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This is classic Artisan - and still very representitive of our sound. Twenty songs by Brian Bedford in Artisan's unique harmony style. There are songs about love, the environment, stupidity, breathless beauty, politics and ghosts. Some are serious, some are not! Listen to a snatch from Breathing Space

£13.50

Rocking at the
End of Time - CD
BOING 9103
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Half the songs on here are Brian Bedford's and half are by contemporary songwriters including Anne Lister, Pete Morton and Huw Williams. Includes Brian's much requested "What's the Use of Wings". The sound is uniquely Artisan. A blend of gutsy vocal energy and velevet harmonies.

£13.50

Driving Home - CD
BOING 8905
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Artisan's 1989 LP digitally re-mastered and re-issued on CD.Classic early Artisan with "Mary Ellen Carter", "The Burning Times", "Unicorns" and now with three NEW bonus tracks

£13.50

SLIMLINE CDs
Top quality studio produced copies in a slimline case with on-body CD print and insert/track list.

Christmas Is Come In - CD
BOING 0211S

A collection of twenty traditional carols and wassails - mostly favourites - re-recorded from earlier deleted CDs 'The Season of Holly and Ivy' and 'Bygone Christmas' with three completely new tracks.

£11.50

Silver and Gold
BOING 0314
CD

.Artisan's most recent seasonal CD featuring - mostly - songs by Brian Bedford. Including 'Holly and Mistletoe days' and 'Home for Christmas' co-written with Barnsley poet Ian McMillan

£11.50

Our Back Yard - CD
Bedspring Music
BOING 9604

Songs about life in the last half century in a variety of styles-- from not-quite-nostalgia for the 50s to a strong kick up the 90s. All but one song written by Artisan's own Brian Bedford and sung in glorious harmony. Includes 'Fear' and 'NIMBY'. The one untypical track on this album is Lamb in the Jungle', hear it at the Artisan myspace site

£11.50

Secure internet ordering direct from Artisan in England with PAYPAL

To pay by cheque, money order, Visa or Mastercard print your requirements clearly and post to
Jacey Bedford, 10 Park Head, Birdsedge, Huddersfield, England, HD8 8XW with cheques payable to Artisan.
Phone from within the UK (01484) 606230
Phone from outside the UK +44 (1484) 606230
You can contact Jacey at <artisan@artisan-harmony.com> please use ALBUMS as part of the title

Cheques? Currency? Cards?

To pay by PAYPAL or by card just click on the buy now buttons. You don't need to have a Paypal account, you can use your credit card at the point of sale via the Paypal organisaton. This is a secure method of paying over the internet.

If you send us your credit card order in writing please print your Visa, Mastercard or Switch number clearly together with start date, expiry date, issue number if applicable and your name as it appears on the card. Don't forget your delivery address. Please put on a phone number or e-mail address in case of query.

All cheques/ bank drafts must be made payable to ARTISAN and must be in UK pounds sterling. We accept: Personal cheques drawn on a British bank or bank cheques or drafts in pounds sterling drawn on a British bank

CREDIT CARDS BY PHONE Have your Visa, Maestro or Mastercard in front of you and phone 01484 606230 from within UK or 011 44 1484 606230 from the USA or Canada. From anywhere else in the world +44 1484 606230

Reviews

Artisan Live

This supreme a cappella team should need no introduction! Artisan, the dynamic trio of Jacey & Brian Bedford and Hilary Spencer, first started singing together in 1984, initially for fun - but they're still together over twenty years later. Well only just - for Artisan as a performing unit will be no more, their final concert due to take place in Penistone, South Yorkshire, only a few miles from their Birdsedge home, on 20th November; definitely a case of quitting while they're ahead! Unbelievably (in view of their incredible success as a live act and the fantastic rapport they've always achieved with their audiences), they've never released a live album, so here at the eleventh hour comes this wonderful 67-minute set (but why does the blurb state 72 minutes? - spooky!!), which consists of a transfer of the bulk of an 85-minute live-to-air radio broadcast from WFMT Radio, Chicago back in March 2002. Anyone who has at any time considered Artisan the epitome of soulless perfection will take comfort from this release, for it's truly a "warts-and-all" set, living dangerously with a one-take performance. Sure, the usual Artisan trademark of careful preparation and rehearsal is present and correct throughout, but even in the obviously scripted intros there's plenty of spontaneity and the trio's sense of fun comes across in spades. As it does in their singing, naturally. Excellent solo singing, fabulous harmonies, solid ensemble work, great technique, serious accomplishment at the service of 15 superbly crafted songs (all Brian's own compositions, running the emotional gamut from What's The Use Of Wings?, I'll Sail No More and White Horses to NIMBY, Mabel and Go With A Smile On My Face - which of course they do, and so will you!). Artisan Live! is both the ultimate memento of this class act and the ultimate primer for those who've not previously been tempted to purchase an Artisan CD but have harboured a secret admiration for the trio's craft. We can all be thankful that Artisan's members aren't retiring from performance - watch out for Jacey and Brian with Pint & Dale in the upcoming Brian Bedford Band, and Hilary solo or with guitarist Grant Baynham in the duo Quicksilver.

David Kidman - netrhythms

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