Track Listings
| 1. Garden Gate |
| 2. She's In Love With Time |
| 3. Wild Mind |
| 4. Wild Afternoon |
| 5. Splendid Isolation |
| 6. The Earl of Walthamstowe |
| 7. The Newgate Wind |
| 8. Release Yourself |
| 9. Maybe |
| 10. Ride The Train of Thought |
| 11. Confusion Days |
| 12. Find My Way Home |
| 13. I Eat the Air |
| 14. Song From Room 13 |
| 15. Need All Your Loving |
| 16. High Wind In the Trees |
| 17. South Hampstead Rain |
| 18. Looks Like Rain (#1) |
Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
The Bevis Frond was Nick Saloman, a neo-psychedelic renaissance man and the sole writer, performer and producer behind the cottage industry bearing the Frond name. The head of his own label (Woronzow) as well as the co-publisher of his own underground magazine (the highly regarded Ptolemaic Terrascope), Saloman was a quintessential English eccentric, a frighteningly prolific talent and a true anachronism purveying an archaic musical genre while simultaneously pioneering the lo-fi aesthetic. Saloman cloaked his formative years in mystery; according to legend, he formed his first band, the Bevis Frond Museum, during his school years, and after the group disbanded he performed solo acoustic sets throughout the London area known as Walthamstow. After founding the Von Trapp Family, later known as Room 13, Saloman was sidelined in 1982 following a motorcycle accident. With the money he received as compensation for his injuries, he revived the Bevis Frond name and during his recuperation period assembled 1986's Miasma, a slice of twisted, latter-day psychedelia issued on Woronzow in a pressing of 250. Much to Saloman's shock, the record sold out; realizing an audience existed for his brand of time-warped pop, he quickly issued Inner Marshland, another underground success.
Product Description
"One night in June 82 I was riding home along Camden Road when I drove down a hole that had been dug in the road and that hadn’t been filled properly. I flew over the handlebars and collided with some park railings, fracturing my left elbow in 8 places, breaking my ulna and radius, several toes, my right heel, and cutting my head and chest open. I spent the entire summer in hospital, and the next year recuperating. I sued Camden Council, and after 3 years (!) I got an out of court settlement. My solicitor told me to reject it and hold out for more, but we were completely broke and in debt, so I took the money, I paid off all my debts, bought a car, had a holiday and had just enough left to buy a portastudio and issue a privately pressed album.
I gave out Miasma as I finally entitled it to a few friends, and figured that was that. However, one of these mates gave a copy to Funhouse Records in Margate. They, in turn, called me up and ordered 200 copies. A few weeks later they asked for another 500. Then some foreign distributors called up asking for copies. I couldn’t believe what was happening. After years of trying and getting nowhere, I stopped trying and suddenly it all starts going right. There’s got to be a moral in there somewhere."- Nick Saloman
Miasma,The Bevis Frond,Rubric Records,Alternative Pop/Rock,Indie Rock,Neo-Psychedelia,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop
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