Pat Gatti / You're Really Somethin'
Y42
The prodigiously talented singer songwriter Pat Gatti
released his one modest album Someone... Somewhere
in 1975 to have something to sell to audiences at the
nightclubs and cruises where Pat made his living. One of
the standout tracks, You're Really Somethin', has just
been rediscovered by a new generation courtesy of a touching
advert for a new photo app. A newly remastered
edition of the full album will follow shortly.
Ted Lucas / Ted Lucas
Y14
The sole published album by singer-songwriter and master
guitarist Ted Lucas has achieved an almost mystical
reputation amongst aficionados and collectors. Ted
Lucas is a seamless marriage of moody odes and raga
style instrumentals regarded by many to be, simply put,
the greatest private press folk/psych album ever recorded.
Lucas was a fixture in the Detroit rock scene of the
sixties and seventies. His first band, The Spike Drivers,
was one of the very first true psych group, the Motor
City’s answer to Jefferson Airplane and The Byrds.
Following the collapse of The Spike Drivers, Lucas paid
bills doing session work with Motown. In 1972, he recorded
the demo for Warner Brothers which would become Ted
Lucas, released in two small private editions in
1975 and known informally to friends and family as The
OM Album, after Lucas' own label, with artwork by
the legendary Stanley Mouse originally created for Jimi
Hendrix.
A troubled figure whose lack of commercial capitalization
and general disgust with the music business fueled a
tragic narrative of self-destruction and an untimely death
at 53, Lucas nevertheless reflects a regal confidence on
his sole album both in terms of his Sandy Bull-level
guitar workouts and his masterful songwriting, as
reflected in covers by the Blind Boys of Alabama, Richard
Buckner, Phil Cook, and Father John Misty. As singular as
Skip Spence’s Oar, as liminal and uncanny as
David Crosby’s If I Could Only Remember My Name,
the self-titled Ted Lucas is a cardinal
collection of elevated and elegiac cosmic folk
music. Distributed in North America by Forced Exposure & Seance
Centre, and in Europe by Clear
Spot and SoundOhm.
Newly remastered from the original tapes ~
in-depth liner notes by Mike Dutkewych ~
high quality tip-on sleeves
hear: bandcamp
- spotify
~ apple
Peter Kardas I Saw You
Y17 / E01
I Saw You is the distillation of Right Belief and Right Action, heretofore unknown private issue cassettes from 1986 and 1987 by Peter Thomas Kardas. A student of Guitar Craft and accredited member of The League of Crafty Guitarists, Kardas drew inspiration from Robert Fripp's loop-based Frippertronics, but the expansive, introspective washes of synths and repeated phrases and vocalizations are utterly their own thing, conjuring the independence, awe and isolation of the remote Northern Californian landscapes in which they were created. Produced in collaboration with Echo Ocho, distributed in North America by Forced Exposure & Seance Centre and in Europe by Clear Spot and SoundOhm.
Remastered from the original four-tracks
DMM vinyl ~ tip-on sleeves ~ edition of 500
includes download card
hear: bandcamp
~ spotify
~ apple
~ youtube
