Various Artists - Twitch and Gloam: Dark Sounds From The Pacific Northwest - VINYL LP

Carolyn Surrick writes of this new InchWhen I called Ronn McFarlane in January to ask if he wanted to play a house concert in April, he checked his calendar and said, InchSure, sounds great!Inch Members of Ensemble Galilei... are spread across the country, and we don't usually get together until right before a performance. But Ronn and I live about twenty miles away from each other, so we started rehearsing. February turned to March in this year of COVID-19. There would be no house concerts. But we kept meeting on Saturday mornings... It was a few weeks into March when I turned to him and said, InchHey, let's make a recording in June.Inch It was a crazy idea. We didn't have much shared repertoire... That meant a huge investment of time and energy. I did not receive a resounding affirmative response. But days passed and the reality of the pandemic settled in. Nothing else was going to be happening this spring. No concerts. No tours. Cancellation after cancellation, with no end in sight. InchYes,Inch he said, Inchlet's do this.Inch I called Lindsey Nelson, Ensemble Galilei's wonderful executive producer, and Collin Rae, the master of strategic marketing at Sono Luminus. I texted our producer, Dan Merceruio. Totally on board. We added rehearsals. Wrote harmony parts. Wrote new music. Arranged our favorite tunes for lute and viola da gamba... All in the shadow of the pandemic. Would we have done this a year ago? Not a chance. We were too busy... The recording exists because of this moment in time...Inch

All 25 of these 1963-1967 tracks were generated by the mini-empire of Jerry Dennon, who recorded numerous Northwest bands for issue on his own labels or lease to others. Not one of these tunes made a national impact, and even if you have a good number of '60s garage anthologies on your shelves, you may well have heard of none of these bands, besides the Sonics and perhaps Don and the Goodtimes. As garage comps go, it's middle-of-the-pack, but respectable, aided by a concentration on original material rather than covers. Most Northwest bands - including most of those on this CD - were distinguished from other regions by a heavier R&B influence and lumpier backbeats, although they did pick up some accoutrements of the bluesier side of the British Invasion in fuzz guitar lines, harmonica, harmonies, Animals-/Them-style organs, and blustery vocals. There's nothing here that screams shoulda-been-hit (or even forgotten gem), but it pounds along pretty authoritatively, with some occasional eyebrow-raising weirdness, as in the Bards' cuckoo version of InchMy Generation,Inch which is actually one of the best covers ever of this familiar standard. As far as some unusual pre-fame names, Larry Coryell is the guitarist on the Checkers' 1963 R&B instrumental InchBlack Cat,Inch while the New Yorkers, one of the poppiest acts here on their 1967 single InchAgain,Inch would evolve into the Hudson Brothers

Limited coke bottle green colored vinyl LP pressing. 2025 . From the tag that brought you the black-hearted romance of Gothic Valentines comes another darkly passionate compilation, Gothic Noir! Hear twisted, totally original recordings of hit love songs like InchWicked Games,Inch InchCareless Whispers,Inch InchIris,Inch InchBrown Eyed GirlInch and so much more! Performances by the new leaders of gothic and darkwave music including Priest, Soviet Soviet, Buzz Kull and Shad Shadows PLUS legends Christian Death, Joy Division, IKON and more!