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Essential ’60s British beat, R&B, Mod album from 1966 by this band fronted by Art Wood (elder brother of Birds/Rolling Stones/Faces guitarist Ronnie) and featuring a young, pre-Deep Purple Jon Lord on organ, plus Keef Hartley (John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers) on drums, Derek Griffiths on guitar and Malcolm Pool on bass. Now reissued for the first time ever in MONO, just like the 1966 original.

*First ever MONO reissue
*Original artwork in hard cardboard sleeve + OBI
*Insert with detailed liner notes by Mike Stax (Ugly Things) and photos / memorabilia

“…one of the iconic, quintessential Mod albums…”
-Mike Stax (Ugly Things)

Tracklist:
Side 1: 1. Can You Hear Me – 2. Down In The Valley – 3. Things Get Better – 4. Walk On The Wild Side – 5. I Keep Forgettin’ – 6. Keep Lookin’
Side 2: 1. One More Heartache – 2. Work ,Work, Work – 3. Be My Lady – 4. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody – 5. Stop And Think It Over – 6. Don’t Cry No More

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“…These aren’t longing, writing demos with tossed-off guide attempts, but instead full-form creations… The pulsating waves of snaking fuzz opening the set with “Love Shining” prepare you for the trip with an indelible riff, while moments of soul exorcism lay bare elsewhere” – Jeremy Cargill

Tracklist: Love Shining – I Feel So Bad – Inside Out – No Long Song – Something That’s Coming – Behind a Cloud – Moral Sense – Die – You Look at Me – Somehow, Someway – Dead in the Rain – Roll Me like the Ocean (Writing Demo) – Roll Me like the Ocean (2014) – You Look at Me (Reprise) / Drayevarg

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We present a new, definitive edition of their famous “Final Daze” recordings, focusing on on 1967-1968 stuff with John Cann as main songwriter (plus a never-before-on-vinyl track from ’69, taken from a rare acetate), unlike previous editions that included early and post-Attack unrelated recordings.

The result is a killer UK PSYCH sounding album featuring the impressive guitar of John Cann (Andromeda, Atomic Rooster…) and it’s the closer we can get to what the long rumoured to exist Attack’s “Roman God Of War” unreleased LP could have sounded like. Including the classic mod-psych anthem “Magic In The Air” (dropped by their record label Decca for “being too heavy”), their unreleased monster hard-psych 45 ‘Feel Like Flying’ / ‘Freedom For You’, the killer title track, the pre-Andromeda demos of “Too Old” and “Go Your Way” and more!

*Insert with liner notes by Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills (Shindig!) and rare photos

“Inhabiting a region of the sonic solar system somewhere between the Creation and the Small Faces, the Attack languished in comparative obscurity back in their day, only to be recognized decades later as one of the most exciting bands of the era.” – Mike Stax (Ugly Things)

Tracklist:
Side 1: 1. Magic In The Air – 2. Mr. Pinnodmy’s Dilemma – 3. Freedom For You – 4. Strange House – 5. Feel Like Flying – 6. Go Your Way
Side 2: 1. Roll On – 2. Too Old – 3. Sleep Like A Child – 4. Now The Sun Shines – 5. Anything – 6. Go Your Way (Demo)

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Totally early 70s sounding electric folk-rock with flute, piano, bass, drums, and killer fuzz guitar. Mostly instrumental with a few vocals in English. It alternates delicate acoustic passages with devastating fuzz leads, sounding like Fairport Convention jamming with early Ash Ra Tempel. The album closes with an extended 11 minute track on which guitar player Daan Slaman starts playing leads like a madman, creating layers and layers of liquid acid-fuzz guitar. It has to be heard to be believed!

First ever LP / CD reissue, done in cooperation with the original band members.

Insert / booklet with rare photos and liner notes by Richard Allen.

Carefully remastered from original vinyl (the masters were destroyed long ago) using state-of-the-art equipment, resulting in stunning sound quality.

Tracklist:

Lodalientje – Cola-Tik – Hymn On Wind And Water – Maiden Voyage – Gimmick For Twenty Fingers – Transcendence (for Leo)- Images Of Long Gone By – Oblivion

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The recording has a definite 1981 sound but (again, like Bobb Trimble) this somehow becomes an advantage. There’s not a questionable song on this album, recommended to anyone open for a soft, dreamy trip inside the melancholy and bliss of an acid-tinted romance.” (The Acid Archives).

High-quality reissue in 180g vinyl, nice carton with original artwork, unbeatable remastered sound quality and also including the huge 16-paged booklet with lyrics and drawings.
500 copies limited release.

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Absolute monster when talking about US hard-rock / proto-doom private pressings.

Hailing from Florida, Bolder Damn released this beast in 1971.

Ultra-heavy, “raw-in-your-face” sound with loud fuzzed-out guitar, solid rhythm section and manic vocals.

​Bolder Damn formed in 1969 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The original lineup consisted of John Anderson on vocals and rhythm guitar, Glenn Eaton on lead guitar, Ron Refett on bass, Mark Gaspard on keyboards, and Bob Eaton on drums. Initially performing covers, they gradually incorporated original material into their sets. Their energetic live performances led them to open for notable acts such as Alice Cooper, MC5, The Amboy Dukes, and Blue Cheer. ​

In 1971, after Gaspard’s departure, the remaining members recorded their sole album, ‘Mourning’, at Hyperbolic Studios in Florida. The recording session lasted only four hours, resulting in a raw, in-your-face heavy sound . The album was privately pressed with approximately 200 copies distributed mainly to friends, family, and local fans. Side 2 featured the 16-minute epic “Dead Meat,” which reflects the band’s heavy, proto-doom style, reminiscent of contemporaries like Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer. ​

In 1972 Anderson and Refett were drafted into military service during the Vietnam War, leading to Bolder Damn’s dissolution.

*Original artwork in hard cardboard sleeve + OBI

*Remastered sound

 *Fold-out insert with liner notes / interview with singer John Anderson and rare pictures

*Download card

***RIYL: Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Pentagram, MC5, Sainte Anthony’s Fyre…***

Tracklist:
Side 1: 1. BRTCD – 2. Got That Feeling – 3. Monday Mourning – 4. Rock On – 5. Find A Way
Side 2: 1. Breakthrough – 2. Dead Meat

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Recorded in 1970 but never released at the time, featuring future members of Roky Erickson’s backing band Bleib Alien / The Aliens.

Formed in Austin in the late 1960s by visionary lyricist and autoharp player Billy Bill Miller and his friend Tom McGarrigle on guitar, Cold Sun evolved from a band called Cauldron (later Amethyst) which at one point featured drummer John Kearney from Roky Erickson’s first band The Spades. Miller, a proto-Goth figure always dressed in black, highly influenced by Joe Meek and vintage sci-fi / horror movies, started to experiment with weird noises out of his electrified autoharp, favoring the audio-oriented drug mescaline over the LSD associated with hippies. Amethyst jammed with musicians such as Benny Thurman from the 13th Floor Elevators and Steve Webb from the Lost And Found (another International Artists band). The definitive Amethyst line-up, with Hugh Patton on drums and Mike Waugh on bass, played at venues like the I.L. Club, a historical landmark of Austin blues & psychedelic music.

It was through Mike Waugh’s friendship with Elevators drummer John Ike Walton that Billy Miller and the band (still unsure about their name but calling themselves The Daily Planet, changing it to Dark Shadows, and then to Cold Sun) hooked up with the local label / studio Sonobeat (Mariani, Wildfire, Johnny Winter…), who expressed interest in recording an album with the intention to shop it to a major label: thus, the now-legendary Cold Sun album was born. The band, driven by Miller’s strange electrified autoharp sounds plus the massive fuzz guitar of McGarrigle, dressed with feedback and futuristic lyrics, laid down several tracks in between rehearsals at Miller’s house on Castle Hill (west Austin). The album opens with “South Texas” (“the ultimate psychedelic track,” according to Patrick “The Lama” Lundborg), climbing to a psychedelic summit with the final 11 minutes of the fervently intoxicated “Ra-Ma”.

Never released at the time, the Cold Sun album languished in oblivion and the musicians moved on to other things. Billy Bill Miller along with drummer Hugh Patton founded Bleib Alien (later The Aliens), the famous backing band of Roky Erickson, with Billy being essential in bringing Roky back to music after his stay at Rusk Mental Hospital.

It wasn’t until 1990 that the Cold Sun album was finally released on vinyl by the Rockadelic label (in a tiny edition of 300 copies), followed by a new edition on German label World In Sound in 2008, now out of print.

For this new edition on Guerssen, we’ve tried to imagine how the Cold Sun album could have looked like if it had been actually released in 1970. It comes in a hard cardboard sleeve with vintage styled artwork by psychedelic illustrator Callum Rooney.

Sourced from the same audio master as the original Rockadelic LP, the sound has been vastly improved thanks to the meticulous and careful restoration / remastering by audiophile engineer Ezra Lesser, who has also penned the definitive story of Cold Sun for the liner notes.

*Hard cardboard sleeve with vintage styled artwork by Callum Rooney
*Audiophile restoration / remastering by Ezra Lesser
*Insert with detailed liner notes and photos
*Download card

“One of the most important psychedelic records, and unlike any other one.” – Paul Major

“Cold Sun is an anomaly in Texas psych history. As significant as Bubble Puppy or Moving Sidewalks but in no way similar, the Austin quartet cut one cult classic in its brief existence, the spell-binding Dark Shadows, which Jello Biafra called “the best psychedelic album I know of.” – Austin Powell (Austin Chronicle)

“Billy Miller invented Post-Punk in 1970” – Julian Cope (Head Heritage)

Tracklist:
Side 1: 1. South Texas – 2. Twisted Flower – 3. Here In The Year – 4. For Ever
Side 2: 1. See What You Cause – 2. Fall – 3. Ra-Ma

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Recorded in 1970 but never released at the time, featuring future members of Roky Erickson’s backing band Bleib Alien / The Aliens.

Formed in Austin in the late 1960s by visionary lyricist and autoharp player Billy Bill Miller and his friend Tom McGarrigle on guitar, Cold Sun evolved from a band called Cauldron (later Amethyst) which at one point featured drummer John Kearney from Roky Erickson’s first band The Spades. Miller, a proto-Goth figure always dressed in black, highly influenced by Joe Meek and vintage sci-fi / horror movies, started to experiment with weird noises out of his electrified autoharp, favoring the audio-oriented drug mescaline over the LSD associated with hippies. Amethyst jammed with musicians such as Benny Thurman from the 13th Floor Elevators and Steve Webb from the Lost And Found (another International Artists band). The definitive Amethyst line-up, with Hugh Patton on drums and Mike Waugh on bass, played at venues like the I.L. Club, a historical landmark of Austin blues & psychedelic music.

It was through Mike Waugh’s friendship with Elevators drummer John Ike Walton that Billy Miller and the band (still unsure about their name but calling themselves The Daily Planet, changing it to Dark Shadows, and then to Cold Sun) hooked up with the local label / studio Sonobeat (Mariani, Wildfire, Johnny Winter…), who expressed interest in recording an album with the intention to shop it to a major label: thus, the now-legendary Cold Sun album was born. The band, driven by Miller’s strange electrified autoharp sounds plus the massive fuzz guitar of McGarrigle, dressed with feedback and futuristic lyrics, laid down several tracks in between rehearsals at Miller’s house on Castle Hill (west Austin). The album opens with “South Texas” (“the ultimate psychedelic track,” according to Patrick “The Lama” Lundborg), climbing to a psychedelic summit with the final 11 minutes of the fervently intoxicated “Ra-Ma”.

Never released at the time, the Cold Sun album languished in oblivion and the musicians moved on to other things. Billy Bill Miller along with drummer Hugh Patton founded Bleib Alien (later The Aliens), the famous backing band of Roky Erickson, with Billy being essential in bringing Roky back to music after his stay at Rusk Mental Hospital.

It wasn’t until 1990 that the Cold Sun album was finally released on vinyl by the Rockadelic label (in a tiny edition of 300 copies), followed by a new edition on German label World In Sound in 2008, now out of print.

For this new edition on Guerssen, we’ve tried to imagine how the Cold Sun album could have looked like if it had been actually released in 1970. It comes in a hard cardboard sleeve with vintage styled artwork by psychedelic illustrator Callum Rooney.

Sourced from the same audio master as the original Rockadelic LP, the sound has been vastly improved thanks to the meticulous and careful restoration / remastering by audiophile engineer Ezra Lesser, who has also penned the definitive story of Cold Sun for the liner notes.

*Vintage styled artwork by Callum Rooney
*Audiophile restoration / remastering by Ezra Lesser
*Booklet with detailed liner notes and photos

“One of the most important psychedelic records, and unlike any other one.” – Paul Major

“Cold Sun is an anomaly in Texas psych history. As significant as Bubble Puppy or Moving Sidewalks but in no way similar, the Austin quartet cut one cult classic in its brief existence, the spell-binding Dark Shadows, which Jello Biafra called “the best psychedelic album I know of.” – Austin Powell (Austin Chronicle)

“Billy Miller invented Post-Punk in 1970” – Julian Cope (Head Heritage)

Tracklist:
1. South Texas – 2. Twisted Flower – 3. Here In The Year – 4. For Ever – 5. See What You Cause – 6. Fall – 7. Ra-Ma

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Recommended for fans of Mark Fry, Shide & Acorn, Trader Horne and Donovan.

Come sit beside the riverbank and try to recall the happy summer days…

Tracklist: 1. Upon Your Rise – 2. Morning / The Meandering Path – 3. Spring – 4. My Dear Alice – 5. Slaying Of The Dragon – 6. Far, Far, Far Away – 7. Matilda Of The Meadow – 8. Afternoon / In Memory Of A Summer Day – 9. Along The Castle Wall – 10. Upon A Dream – 11. Rivers – 12. The Kingdom Must Fall

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