Pok: The Dark, The Ring and The Knowledge

The Dark, The Ring and The Knowledge is a brand new release by Pok the Bard!

If you enjoy songs whose lyrics tell a story, you will love this. And what a tremendous tale it is, with some extraordinarily quotable lines of everyday wisdom as well.

Pok wrote The Dark, The Ring and The Knowledge in 1985. It was based on an allegedly true story told by a friend of Pok and the wider Wud posse.

She apparently lost a piece of jewelry and then found it again, years later. It was lying on the tarmac of a country lane, many miles from where it had vanished. She was prone to rather odd events.

Pok plays a delightful fingerstyle acoustic guitar on the Tanglewood. His lead parts were performed on Marsha, a beautiful Ibanez Roadstar II that was subsequently stolen.

Pok is accompanied on drums by Sven’s delightful dancehall shuffle and Josh on piano and organ, which he played both at the same time and almost in one take.

Sven and Josh overdubbed their percussion parts and Maxx completes the ensemble with understated and precision bass that works perfectly.

The Dark, The Ring and The Knowledge includes a curious trick of timing, where a couple of beats and a couple of bars seem to go missing. It works just the same every time it goes around, so you might be able to spot it.

The song has a psychedelic or progressive folk feel, akin to the likes of Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead.

The Dark, The Ring and The Knowledge is the latest addition to Pok‘s growing Anthology album. There are several more songs to finish and we tend to feel that Anthology will likely run to two or more volumes when it is completed.

Several more of the songs are quite near completion. We shall inform fans of Pok of their release via our News service and social media, so stay tuned!

To download Anthology from Bandcamp, or just listen to it as it stands right now, please click here.

If you would like to listen to the album right here at the Wud Records website instead, please click here instead.

To listen to or download The Dark, The Ring and The Knowledge as an individual track, please click here.