Italian writer and journalist of "Blow Up" magazine. http://www.blowupmagazine.com

1965 - 2005 迷幻民謠編年史，迷謠聖經。作者是意大利 Blow Up 雜誌主筆，找瞭很久的好書，內容精彩，覆蓋麵很廣，推薦的唱片居然都沒聽過幾張唉。：(

With "The Circle is Unbroken" Dal Soler traces the long fascinating epic history of that kind of music (most of all, English and American) defied weird folk, starting from the recognised fathers of the revival (in UK Davy Graham, Shirley and Dolly Collins, Anne Briggs...) to the more recent musicians, even if he's conscious that is "a story still open", "a still unexplored universe by an essay writing level" (and the huge work made by Rob Young published in UK by Faber & Faber as "Electric Eden. Unhearting Britain's visionary music".

Among a very lot of known and unknown artists - believe me, a true map also for expert listeners! - few pages are dedicated to the Third Ear Band, a group Dal Soler knows very well from the '70's, when, as he writes, "for ourself it meant mysterious looks, records mainly impossible to find, a pure fragment of the English underground scene or maybe just universal one".

On the paragraph titled "The Third Ear Band magical esoterism", describing the music of "Alchemy", he considers "Lark Rise" "an autentic folk gem included just to reaffirm the primary roots of a sound that has taste of earth and "wilderness"".