The Shadow Ring - Hold Onto I.D. - VINYL LP

Originally conceived as a compilation of outtakes and live recordings from The Shadow Ring's 1995 stateside tour, Wax-Work Echoes takes it's name from the first line of InchPut the Music in It's Coffin,Inch the title track of the group's breakthrough . Lambkin abandons the bits-and-bobs approach, advancing the Shadow Ring concept with entirely original material that builds on the unit's self-mythologizing lyrics, celebrates the clicking of horse hooves, ponders on the sociability of rats and mice, and warns of the dangers of poultry. The first Shadow Ring album to officially include Tim Goss in the main lineup, Wax-Work Echoes reveals the group in it's final and lasting form, awash in the outer bounds of atmospheric exploration, with Lambkin's familiar wry and morbid lyricism and the stripped-down angularity of amateurishly detuned guitars fully intact. While Klaus Canterbury and Tony Clark seem all but forgotten, and the shrugged off S. Fritz is listed on the liner notes as performing only Inchwhen required,Inch Lambkin did solicit contributions from outside the inner circle. A bit of InchMambo Twist,Inch lifted from a tape of unreleased Vitamin B12 material sent to Lambkin by Alasdair Willis, found it's way into InchV.E.R.M.I.N.,Inch while an extended epistle contribution from Richard Youngs (and, technically, Brian Lavelle) would be employed in the second half of InchCatching Sight/Of Passing Things.Inch Released on CD in 1996 for Bruce Russell's newly minted Corpus Hermeticum, Wax-Work Echoes was recorded concurrently with intense rehearsal periods, in anticipation of the forthcoming InchRose Watson Tour,Inch and was supported by a celebratory fanzine media blitz. The album seemingly absorbs the frenetic excess of the band's transatlantic travels; Wax-Work Echoes channels the trio's wilder instincts into an unresolved catharsis, not yet free of frustration or res

Recorded in summer of 1994 at S.H.P studios (frontman Graham Lambkin's parents' home), the group's sophomore record Put the Music in It's Coffin is a more sinister, saturnine affair than their debut City Lights. From the get-go, the record has a menacing, vile ambience. It's opening track InchHorse-Meat Cakes,Inch inspired by an anecdote by pulp author Philip K. Dick about how he and his wife subsisted off low-grade pet food when he first arrived in San Francisco, sets the tone lyrically and sonically. Subsequent tracks are filled with Rabelaisian body horror and sinewy, haptic diction. InchI try to pass out vital organs, convinced that they are waste,Inch intones Lambkin in InchHeart, Liver & Lungs,Inch before a chorus of detuned guitars kicks in, nearly drowning out the speaker's account of consuming chevaline intestines. Later songs similarly detail vernacular cooking (InchCaribbean Porridge,Inch about a cornmeal hangover cure), bodily processes (InchNocturnal Middle Rumbles,Inch about nighttime defecation), and creaturely conflict (InchCrystal TearsInch and InchSpin The Animal DialInch). Album Tracks 1. Horse-Meat Cakes 2. Heart, Liver & Lungs 3. Put the Music in It's Coffin 4. Remembering Old Friends 5. Mustard Hooves 6. Nocturnal Middle Rumbles 7. Caribbean Porridge 8. Crystal Tears 9. Spin the Animal Dial 10. Moonlight in Wings

The Shadow Vol I and Vol II is The Tronosonic Experience's follow up to the critically acclaimed record The Big blow.The music on The Shadow Vol I and Vol II is influenced by both the more experimental hard rock of the seventies, like Ginger Baker's Airforce and King Crimson, and the meditative and contemplative vibe represented by the works of jazz artists Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders in the late seventies. The music on the albums is also influence by more modern progressive rock and heavy rock represented by bands like The Mars Volta, Clutch and Queens of the Stone Age.1. Sheik Pt. 1 2. Sheik Pt.23. The Last Stand4. The Sunwatcher5. Golden Comet6. Totak