Olive Klug - Lost Dog - VINYL LP

B. Martinu - Symphonies 2 & 4 [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/20/2001

Heather Maloney’s new album, Exploding Star was never intended to be released. Written after the death of her father, the songs were the most vulnerable body of work she had ever created - meant and written only for her. The idea of releasing an album went against her instincts to keep this art close. Luckily for us, her family convinced her otherwise. Maloney was able to track for 2 days in her childhood home - recording songs, backing vocals, the crickets in the yard and even percussion played directly on the walls and floors of the house itself. Maloney also played her father’s guitar and a keyboard that she had since she was a child. The result is raw and exquisitely personal, a collection of twelve songs urgently written at the time to help ease the “greatest heartbreak” of Maloney’s life but are thankfully and transcendentally now ours as well.

It's been a half century since Pavlov's Dog burst onto the burgeoning progressive rock sceneof the early 1970s. Hailing from the city of St. Louis, Missouri, their heady blend of rock,classical and folk music turned them into cult legends.Lost In America is the result of a songwriting partnership between founding members DavidSurkamp and Doug Rayburn that bore fruit in the late 1980s. The pair is joined here byMichele Isam, who displays excellent chops on saxophone and vocals, as well as SteveScorfina, lead guitarist from the band's early days. Though the album is often overlooked,Germany's Rocktimes praised the 1990 incarnation of Pavlov's Dog for it's ability to writeInchsnappy chorusesInch and Inchrefreshing contemporary songs.InchRuf Records is happy to now a transparent vinyl edition of this album!