S.T. MIKAEL "CLAUSTROMANIA" Psych Dungen
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This is an original lp of S.t. Mikael's psychedelic opus "Claustromania". This was released on the Xotic Mind label in 1991. At the time, S.T. Mikael was considered to be Sweden's equivalent to Bevis Frond. I bought it new and only played it once when I recorded it onto a cassette. The vinyl is like new but since I hesitate to ever call any record mint I'll grade it NM and the cover is in VG+ shape as it has some light ringwear on one side, slight corner wear less than 0.5cm on 2 corners. Shipping is $4 for insured media mail in the USA, $8 Canada, $14 Rest Of World. This is Planet Mellotron's review of the album :
Sweden's St. Mikael (a.k.a. Mikael Sundström) apparently spent the '80s trying to find like-minded musicians, eventually resorting to recording his material on his own, in classic 'one-man band' style. After 1990's Visions of a Trespasser and the following year's cassette-only The Unknown, Claustromania appeared later in 1991, and sounds, quite literally, as if it could've dropped out of 1968. Its contents cover a good chunk of the psychedelic spectrum, mixing slightly Moodie-esque material (Venus And Beyond, Androgyno's Song) with shorter instrumental pieces (Spirits 1 and 2) and other general weirdness in a generally pleasing manner.
Mikael sticks some Mellotron on the album - a real one, as samples weren't really on most players' radar that early. Thankfully. The title track has a brief flute part near the end, while Spirit 1 is basically a 'Tron flute solo, although it sounds like it's been stuck through some kind of distortion, barely sounding like a Mellotron in its upper registers. Strings on Venus And Beyond and Time Caravan, with ghostly-sounding flutes on Polaris and more strings on the final two tracks, particularly on A New Era, making for a reasonably hefty 'Tron album.
This doesn't appear to be on CD, and isn't going to be easy to find, at least as a physical artefact, but is worth hunting down for psych fans and Mellotron nuts alike; no fighting over copies, now... St. Mikael has released several albums since Claustromania, but I don't believe he used a Mellotron again. I shall report back should I be proven wrong.
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