THE BEVIS FROND "THE LEAVING OF LONDON " NEW DOUBLE VINYL 18 TRACKS

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THE BEVIS FROND " THE LEAVING OF LONDON" NEW 18 TRACK DOUBLE VINYL LP . 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 read more

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