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Artist:
HOPPER, HUGH
Title:
Best Soft
Label:
MANTRA (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$8.00
Catalog #:
MAN 105
"Compilation features 12 of the most interesting songs composed by Hugh Hopper, ex-Soft Machine bass player." Poorly annotated comp. of material from solo albums and Hopper-led sessions issued under his name 1973-1983. Limited stock of this deleted item, reduced price.
Artist:
HEDAYAT, DASHIELL
Title:
Obsolete
Label:
MANTRA (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
MAN 506143
New deluxe digipak version (on the long defunct Manta label?) of this 1971 classic. The LP was originally released on the legendary Shandar label. Hedayat sang lead vocals, played keyboards and "cosmic-hedayat-rumble and cut-ups," coerced Daevid Allen and Gillie Smyth (of Gong), William Burroughs, Robert Wyatt's son Sam and others to join him in recording this stoned, prog-psych masterwork of two long tracks. The memorable message: "This record must be played as loud as possible, must be heard as stoned as impossible, and thank you everybody" is still intact. A classic deserving of its cult.
Artist:
HEDAYAT, DASHIELL
Title:
Obsolete
Label:
MANTRA (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$21.00
Catalog #:
MAN 806191
New remastered CD version (from original tapes according to the cover info), in cardboard sleeve (aka "vinyl replica" packaging); edition of 999 copies. "When
Obsolete
was published in November of 1971, the reporter from the magazine of reference,
Superpop Hebdo
(
Superpop Weekly
), questioned the repetitive aspect of this disc. He couldn't know that this musical approach would take flight thanks to English and German groups like Hawkwind, Amon Düül, and soon after, Gong, in France, whose founding members (Daevid Allen, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilly Smith, Christian Tritsch) accompany Dashiell Hedayat. From this space-rock album is torn 'Chrysler Rose' -- a little known masterpiece in its day, but which has today become a cult anthem to the 'joint' at all hip celebrations, revered by multiple generations of partiers. Humor and derision exist alongside the unreal on 'Love Song for Zelda,' realized with the help of William Burroughs, author of the hippies' must-have bedside book
Junkie
. Drugs are omnipresent in the hallucinatory texts of Dashiell Hedayat. The musical and lyrical composition date from the autumn of 1969, from whence the choice of the title
Obsolete
. An avant-garde disc so cool, it'll never go out of style! After having composed a second, very rare, opus under the pseudonym
Melmoth
(the beginning of intoxication), Dashiell Hedayat has since adopted a different type of writing, and today has authored novels and Hollywood screenplays under the name Jack-Alain Léger."
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