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Artist:	GARRIE, NICK
Title:	The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas
Label:	REV-OLA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CRREV 135CD

"One of the most mysterious and sought after albums ever... A masterpiece of dark and enigmatic downer orchestral folkrock beauty redolent of Nick Drake or even er...Peter Sarstedt if you please!...But who on earth was Nick Garrie?...and why was this a France-only album? RevOla is in a position to answer all this. The amazing adventures of the Russian/Scottish Euroboy...wandering the hip hotspots of Europe, San Tropez to Amsterdam, from his parental homebase in Paris...writing songs with the likes of Francis Lai...having megahits in Spain...recording with Cat Stevens and his band...touring and hanging out with Leonard Cohen...it just goes on, and yes, it is impossibly romantic...but the meat of this all is the amazing Nightmare Of J.B. Stanislas itself.... A languid, orchestral post-psychedelic treat, it's equal parts UK baroque-downer pop/folk, with echoes of Peter Sarstedt and Al Stewart, and Euro grown up yet now-sounding pop, where Dutronc meets Aznavour...and Gainsbourg is the Daddy...... Never before on CD (possibly because no one could actually find a mint copy to bootleg!), in this wonderful post-modern age where 'quiet is the new loud,' Nick Garrie-Hamilton's lone 1969 album returns like a long lost uncle clutching armfuls of oranges and lemons which should please lovers of lite pop-psych and symphonic pop no end. Its closest musical relatives are probably Twice As Much, Piccadilly Line or Duncan Browne's Immediate recordings, so it ought to appeal especially to those of a Fading Yellow persuasion..a growing tribe...and that's not all...oh no! We add...not only Nick's rare-issimo 1968 psych pop single 'Queen Of Spades/Close Your Eyes' but also....tracks from his earliest recording....done for a label which planned to take over the European music business by issuing music only on 8-Track Cartridges...unheard even by Nick for years due to the 8-Track player not recovering from being dead."

Artist:	GARRIE, NICK
Title:	The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas
Label:	WAH WAH RECORDS (SPAIN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LPS 031LP

"The fabulous singer-songwriter / pop-psych debut masterpiece by Nick Garrie-Hamilton is reissued in vinyl format for the first time ever since its very rare France-only release in 1969. A musical delicatessen by this great Russian/Scottish, French raised singer songwriter. This LP first came out in France in 1969, under the production of Eddie Vartan, who managed to embody Nick's perfect songs into an orchestration with several common points to that in other great albums from the era coming from the UK (think of Billy Nichols, Duncan Browne, Bill Fay...). Soon after the record came out, the AZ's label owner committed suicide, the label resting orphaned and thus the release being unpromoted & undistributed sank in the dust of time. One of its songs, 'Wheel Of Fortune,' was rescued back in the Strange Things Are Happening days for its inclusion on a volume of the legendary Circus Dayscompilations. The Wah Wah edition, issued under license from Nick Garrie himself, comes with two bonus tracks taken from Nick's rare pre-LP 45, issued in France in 1968. It has been master cut by Yann Dub @ DK Mastering for a high quality sound pressing that will satisfy the most exquisite audiophile."

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