Browse by Label: WILD PLACES

Artist:	USE OF ASHES
Title:	Albion Moonlight
Label:	WILD PLACES
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WILD 009CD

Use of Ashes are the contemporary Dutch-based psych duo of Maarten Scherrenburg (elec. & acoustic guitars, keyboards, vocals) and Peter van Vliet (elec. & acoustic guitars, citer, mellotron, organ, melodica, sampler, drumbox, sounds and tapes, vocals). This mid-priced 33-minute CD is a reissue of a limited 10" release from 1998 with bonus tracks adds. The group have released numerous records, starting with a debut LP in 1988, The Castle Of Fair Welcome, some of which have been ridiculously limited. This will be their first easily findable release, at least from a US-based perspective.

Artist:	HOLY RIVER FAMILY BAND
Title:	Earthquake Country
Label:	WILD PLACES
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	WILD 010CD

"Stunning new CD from this amazing Swedish band with Spacious Mind and Cauldron members. Running time is over 76 minutes. Incorporating psych, deep folk psych and beyond. A true gem." From Tom Rapp's liner notes: "To me, music is psychedelic if it has the unmistakable presence of magic and it helps you to open up your heart and your mind. The Holy River Family Band, in this new CD, is wonderfully psychedelic, and this CD is a psychedelicatessen. Come on in and help yourself."

Artist:	FENNER, LELAND & O'BRIEN
Title:	Fenner, Leland & O'Brien
Label:	WILD PLACES
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	WILD 012CD

"2-on-1 reissue of unknown LP's from 1969 (50 and 250 original LP copies, respectively): Peace In Our Time + Somewhere, Someday, Somehow. These were originally issued on the RPC Vanity label. Stunning LP's filled with that broken dreamer vibe, where youthful idealism and naivete met the cold facts of Vietnam and the government's 'true intentions'. The resulting sound is somewhat akin to some of Bryan MacLean's work with LOVE and Crosby's Wooden Ships, yet this music is all their own. Some excellent fuzz on a couple tracks, and hailed by all who have heard it. Original copies sell for seriously lofty amounts!"

Artist:	TIRILL
Title:	A Dance With the Shadows
Label:	WILD PLACES
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	WILD 013CD

"The debut solo CD from Tirill Mohn, formerly of renowned Norwegian folk/prog group, White Willow. A truly stunning recording full of light and shadow, from sun gilded meadows to firelight dancing off the trees at the deep heart of the darkened forest. At once contemporary and ancient, earthy and grounded and ethereal and otherworldly, joyous and sorrowful, deeply emotional and stirringly cerebral. Tirill's acoustic guitar work is classical in influence as well as rooted in folk musics and Scandinavian melodies, at times recalling some of the playing of Duncan Browne and Nick Drake. Her violin work is sublime and lyrical and her voice is nothing short of angelic. (think a Nordic Linda Perhacs even) She is backed by some amazing musicians making this CD truly an experience, whilst incorporating neo classical, folk, progressive and even gothic elements she has created a lovely netherworld all it's own."

Artist:	MANY BRIGHT THINGS
Title:	Many Bright Friends
Label:	WILD PLACES
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	WILD 015CD

"The idea of the 'Supersession' album dates back to 1968 with Al Kooper's LP with Michael Bloomfield and Steve Stills. Fast forward thirty-seven years to the new album by Many Bright Things. It opens with the twenty-second title track, followed by the twenty-minute centerpiece: The Paul Butterfield Band's John Coltrane/Ravi Shankar-inspired masterpiece, 'East West.' Across its twenty minutes and forty-four seconds no fewer that FIVE guitarists step into the center ring with solos that begin with Larry Demyer (Windopane) and include back-to-back fiery electric sermons by Nick Saloman (Bevis Frond) and Al Simones. 'The Silver Witch' is written and performed by Alisha Sufit (Magic Carpet) accompanied by Frank DeFina on a beautiful Stephen Gilchrist F-5 mandolin. We think this song opens the second side of the vinyl as nicely as 'Within You Without You' opened side two of Sgt. Pepper. Alisha's voice reminds us of our dreams of angels. A tamboura drone and tabla accompaniment (by Paul Tescher) are the foundation for 'Minor Parade for 18 Strings' and a duet between Stan Denski's acoustic 12-string Guild guitar and Paul Major's lead electric. Stan Denski & Larry Demyer play guitars, David 'Tufty' Clough (Zero Boys) adds bass and Lon Paul (Marmoset) adds percussion, all of which form the ground upon which Jello Biafra (The Dead Kennedys) improvises observations on 'rare psychedelic music' on 'I Am Not a Collector Potato!' We guarantee you've never heard anything quite like this. The CD adds the ambient bonus track 'There Will Be a Slight Delay.'"

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