BEVIS FROND Miasma LP WORONZOW 1986 UK orig WOO3 NICK SALOMAN-OUTSKIRTS INFINITY
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THE BEVIS FROND
The Bevis Frond was Nick Saloman, a neo-psychedelic Renaissance man and the sole writer, performer, and producer behind the cottage industry bearing the Frond name. The head of his own label (Woronzow) as well as the co-publisher of his own underground magazine (the highly regarded Ptolemaic Terrascope), Saloman was a quintessential English eccentric, a frighteningly prolific talent and a true anachronism purveying an archaic musical genre while simultaneously pioneering the lo-fi aesthetic.....
"MIASMA"
1986 LP WORONZOW RECORDS WOO3
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
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LABEL: WORONZOW - WHITE LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - PURPLE TEXT
Label Code: none
Catalog on cover: (spine) WOO3
Catalog on labels: WOO3
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): WOO 3A-1 MT. B.J.
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): WOO 3B-1 MT.
On labels: 1986
(B. Frond)
Side A rim text reads "The Electric Denture Cream Of Dermot Walsh Lost On Shrove Tuesday Aboard The Last But One Train To San Fernando"
Side B rim text reads "Not To Be Taken In Suppository Form Without Permission Of The Friends Of The Bevis Frond Who Are Named On The Label On Side A"
On Back Cover: Front cover design & illustration ? R.M. Bancroft
Back cover ? The Bevis Frond Museum & R.M.B.
tracklist
Side A: GARDEN GATE - SHE'S IN LOVE WITH TIME - WILD MIND - WILD AFTERTHOUGHT - SPLENDID ISOLATION
Side B: THE EARL OF WALTHAMSTOWE - THE NEWGATE WIND - MAYBE RIDE THE TRAIN OF THOUGHT - CONFUSION DAYSgrading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
The fact that Nick Saloman's debut record sounds as good as it does -- especially given this was before the era of cheap and easy home recording equipment -- is testimony to his abilities to bring an intense, determined focus to his work. Thankfully his songwriting and playing matches his technical ear, and Miasma still sounds good years after its initial emergence. So much of what would become mainstays of Bevis Frond music -- Saloman's hangdog, expressive voice, his tape-melting solos, and overall focus on keeping the psychedelic freak-out spirit alive -- was already perfectly in place. There are shorter diversions here and there, such as "The Earl of Walthanstowe," a brief, folky snippet which tips its hat to his earlier acoustic incarnation, and the jokey, murky singalong "Release Yourself." As a one-man band he's able to cover all bases quite well -- if he was just a drummer, he'd have a considerable reputation for that alone. But it's as a guitarist that he's most well-known, and deservedly so, throwing himself into rock-god riffs and explorations that in lesser hands could easily just be wankery. Nothing sounds extraneous here...(AllMusic)
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