Ethers - ETHERS - VINYL LP

Ethers - Ethers [VINYL LP] date 08/24/2018

Gold colored vinyl LP pressing. While going through his attic in 2018, famous guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen (composer of the worldwide hit InchVenusInch), came across some unique, almost forgotten and unreleased demo material recorded by The Motions back in 1967 in the legendary GTB studio in The Hague. Keyboard player PP Everts suggested the original singer Rudy Bennet that something could and should be done with these songs. After some radical re-working of the material, with arrangements done by PP Everts, Rudy Bennet and guitarist Alan McLachlan, plus a rewriting of the text of InchWarm Me BabyInch by Alan, the song swere taken into the rehearsal room with the full band. The results were so exciting, that it was decided that the tracks should be re-recorded and released, 52 years on from the original sessions! Erik Kuylaars was invited onboard to produce and oversee the whole project. Under his inspiring leadership and with the invaluable help of engineer Iwan Pronk, all the songs, apart from a few overdubs, were recorded by the band in one take. Recorded contains both the 1967 demos as well as the new re-recordings. Album Tracks 1. A Little Bit of Heaven (2019 Recordings) 2. Warm Me Baby (2019 Recordings) 3. 20 Miles from Home (2019 Recordings) 4. I'm Wondering (2019 Recordings) 5. A Little Bit of Heaven (1967 Demos) 6. Warm Me Baby (1967 Demos) 7. 20 Miles from Home (1967 Demos) 8. I'm Wondering (1967 Demos)

Writhing Squares have been conjuring up cosmic slop from the Philadelphia underground for a few years now, mixing growling bass, motorik synthesis, and skronking sax into a heady brew of punk-laced progressive R'n'R. The duo of Daniel Provenzano & Kevin Nickles emerged in 2015 with their self-released InchGemini BluesInch 7-nch, following it up the next year with their debut album InchIn The Void AboveInch for the renowned Siltbreeze imprint. InchOut of The EtherInch is their sophomore effort, & first for Trouble In Mind. The album consists of 5 tracks of minimal, droning ambience, overtaken at times by Nickles' wailing, sax skronk; a mixture of the soulful runs of The Stooges' Steve McKay & the no-wave stabs of James Chance - drum machine, and Provenzano's guttural basslines that add an industrial menace to a locked-in groove and lysergicly introspective lyrics. Album closer InchA Whole New JupiterInch takes up all of the LP version's side two, slingshotting the listener over the event horizon and thru the center of a sonically sculpted black hole, it's relentless motorik dirge evolving over the course of the track's 19-minute run time into an abstract pulse before lurching back into the groove, riding it into the sun. Album Tracks 1. Dirt in My Mind's Eye 2. Steely Eyed Missile Man 3. Bloodborne Hate and Black Book Mass 4. I Turned to the Mirror 5. A Whole New Jupiter