DANDO SHAFT: Dando Shaft, RCA (Neon),1st, FACTORY SEALED, PSYCH FOLK, RARE LP
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WOW! What you are bidding on is a out of print PSYCH- FOLK LP from DANDO SHAFT: DANDO SHAFT. This is on the legendary RCA (Neon) Records label from the USA. No bar code, first pressing, FACTORY SEALED.
RCA's UK answer to the progressive rock craze that was sweeping music in the late Sixties and early Seventies was the ill-fated "Neon" label which managed only 11 albums in 2 years (1971 to 1972). Complete with weird artwork in a lavish gatefold sleeve (obligatory for all these releases it seemed) - names such as Centipede, Fair Warning, Shape Of The Rain and Tonton Macoute - don't exactly role off the tongue - even now. None of them sold jack - and the oddball folk ensemble Dando Shaft and their self-titled 2nd album - was no different.
Released in the UK in 1971 on RCA Neon NE 5, "Dando Shaft" has therefore long since been a genuine rarity and is presently listed at £100 in the 2010 Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide (I've seen no original copies in my 40 years selling records) Musically this is English folk for sure, but not overtly so - there's a Pentangle rock-song feel to a lot of it somehow. Another comparison would be to a lovely Irish duo called "Tir Na N'Og" (it's Gaelic for "Land Of The Young") who had three albums on Chrysalis Records in the early Seventies and later morphed into the wonderfully eccentric "Scullion" (a further 3 albums). Those references may be a little vague I know, but that's what Dando Shaft sound like - Folk with an eccentric rock twist.
They also had no less that THREE lead vocalists and had lovely - even beautiful - songs. "Sometimes" is very simple and gorgeous, while "Kalyope Driver" is driven by folk mandolin and a relentlessly upbeat set of lyrics (title above). The less-than-one-minute instrumental "Dewit" shows off their playing virtuosity while "Till The Morning Comes" features superb counter-vocals from Polly Bolton and Kevin Dempsey with flute and bass backing them up. It ends in the very short but sweet "Prayer".
A beautiful example of British Psych folk!
DANDO SHAFT were formed in 1969 in Cambridge, England and featured:
POLLY BOLTON - Lead Vocals
MARTIN JENKINS - Lead & Backing Vocals, Mandolin and Violin
DAVE COOPER - Lead & Backing Vocals and Guitar
KEVIN DEMPSEY - Lead & Backing Vocals, Guitar and Bass
ROGER BULLEN - Bass
TED MAY - Percussion
Coming Home To Me 3:32 Sometimes 3:53 Waves Upon The Ether 4:40 Riverboat 4:20 Dewet 1:38 Railway 2:40 Whispering Ned 1:40 Pass It On 3:51 Kalyope Driver 3:02 Till The Morning Comes 1:41 Prayer 0:32 RCA (NEON) RECORDS NE5 1971
NOTE: These records are visual graded not play graded. I try to be conservative in grading. MINT= SEALED N. MINT= PLAYED MAY BE ONCE EXCELLENT= PLAYED A FEW TIMES MAY HAVE A FEW MINOR SCUFFS THAT DO NOT AFFECT PLAY VG+= PLAYED SEVERAL TIMES, WELL MAINTAINED AND WILL PLAY FINE, BUT MAY HAVE A LITTLE SURFACE NOISE OR FEW CLICKS AND POPS, BUT SHOULD NOT BE DISTRACTIVE. We will not list anything below a VG+ unless it's mega rare.
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