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Before There Was… Shadoks 054 CD £12.99 Reissue of the third and fourth albums (1977/79) from this fringe English folk/psych/prog player, with connections to Richard and Linda Thompson, June Tabor et al. Anyone who digs Pete Fine’s North Star will go for the bursts of iconoclastic electric lead guitar here, married to a bunch of glazed folk/prog songs that seem to orbit a barely-articulated tradition of outsider English songwriters like Julian Cope, Roy Harper and Nic Jones. Other parts sound like a slightly more sophisticated Arthur Lee and Love. Comes with four bonus tracks and an interview with Stevens. |
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Pagan Shadoks 073 CD £12.99 Brain-dunting stoner blaze in a pro-Hendrix blunt sledgehammer style recorded 1969/70 in Hollywood. Nicely doped fuzz level, some weird vest-peeling country stoke, a buncha hybrid psych/ranch/biker instrumental roars and some great exploito-blues, including “Laurie Waltzing” that appeared on the soundtrack to the 1970 Roger Corman/Stephanie Rothman flick The Velvet Vampire. Previously available on vinyl from Rockadelic, this one comes with seven bonus tracks. |
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Before There Was… Shadoks 054 CD £12.99 1968 recordings from this beautifully ambitious underground/baroque/experimental pop/psych group based out of Buffalo. Some nice out rock influences fairly overtly flagged - Robert Wyatt-esque vocals, Velvets-style piano led mainline dirges (booklet mentions how they were regularly covering Velvets songs - including “Heroin” - in 1967 (!) which makes them one of the only contemporaneous groups to pick up on Lou and Co.'s avant garage moves and they recall a meeting between the band and Reed and Cale when the Velvets came up to check out the speaker system that Time were using), a Zappa-esque use of basic concrete techniques and plenty of Zombies/Left Banke-style ornate melancholy. Arrangements are pretty all-encompassing, with subtle medieval touches, lutes and harpsichord as well as piano, fuzz guitar and speaker-wowing effects. Shadoks describe it well: “Imagine Mia Farrow in the movie Rosemary's Baby sitting in her window and watching the NY streets below while it's raining outside… that's what the music feels like”. Comes with 18 page booklet with loads of liners and pics. |
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Spooky Time Shadoks 083 LP £26.99 From Japan circa 1972. “Still unknown incredible rare album of mellow Underground with english vocals. Good and rare as gold dust. A beautiful concept album, far away from any avantgarde tunes. The recording was great but the mixing was weak. This album make you shiver. Great artists and performers, electric guitar, piano, drums, bass, beautiful english vocals, all original compositions influenced by the London Underground scene and bands such as Procol Harum. If you think "Martha" is a good album you will like this one a lot.” Shadoks. 180gram vinyl limited to 450 numbered copies |
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s/t Shadoks No Cat LP £29.99 Sacros – ‘The Sacred’ – were a Chilean rock band inspired by the “spiritual passion and veneration for the great gods of South America”. They recorded their sole self-titled LP for the state label IRT in 1973 but the production was destroyed by the military, with very few copies making it out to the world. Shadoks have done another great job of rescuing this beautiful psych/folk rock LP that combines Byrds-esque Rickenbacker-driven songs with the beautiful, elegiac feel of Chilean contemporaries like Los Jaivas and Blops as well as classic South American sides like Satwa and Lula Cortez. Comes in a hand-numbered edition of 450 copies with heavy glossy sleeves, an insert and 180g vinyl. |
