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01. Cold Sun - South Texas
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ARTIST
COLD SUN
TITLE
Dark Shadows
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
GUERSSEN RECORDS
CATALOG #
GUESS 076CD
GUESS 076CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
11/8/2024
Vivid peyote-induced psychedelia from Texas sounding like an impossible meld between the
Elevators
and the
Velvet Underground
, but possessing a strongly unique disposition. Recorded in 1970 but never released at the time, featuring future members of
Roky Erickson
's backing band
Bleib Alien/The Aliens
. Formed in Austin in the late 1960s by visionary lyricist and autoharp player
Billy Bill Miller
and his friend
Tom McGarrigle
on guitar,
Cold Sun
evolved from a band called
Cauldron
(later
Amethyst
) which at one point featured drummer
John Kearney
from Roky Erickson's first band
The Spades
. Miller, a proto-Goth figure always dressed in black, highly influenced by
Joe Meek
and vintage sci-fi/horror movies, started to experiment with weird noises out of his electrified autoharp, favoring the audio-oriented drug mescaline over the LSD associated with hippies. Amethyst jammed with musicians such as
Benny Thurman
from the 13th Floor Elevators and
Steve Webb
from the
Lost And Found
. The definitive Amethyst line-up, with
Hugh Patton
on drums and
Mike Waugh
on bass, played at venues like the I.L. Club, a historical landmark of Austin blues and psychedelic music. It was through Mike Waugh's friendship with Elevators drummer
John Ike Walton
that Billy Miller and the band hooked up with the local label/studio Sonobeat, who expressed interest in recording an album with the intention to shop it to a major label: thus, the now-legendary Cold Sun album was born. The band, driven by Miller's strange electrified autoharp sounds plus the massive fuzz guitar of McGarrigle, dressed with feedback and futuristic lyrics, laid down several tracks in between rehearsals at Miller's house on Castle Hill. Never released at the time, the Cold Sun album languished in oblivion and the musicians moved on to other things. It wasn't until 1990 that the Cold Sun album was finally released on vinyl by the Rockadelic label, followed by a new edition on German label World In Sound in 2008, now out of print. For this new edition, Guerssen has tried to imagine how the Cold Sun album could have looked like if it had been actually released in 1970. It comes with vintage styled artwork by psychedelic illustrator
Callum Rooney
. Sourced from the same audio master as the original Rockadelic LP, the sound has been vastly improved thanks to the meticulous and careful restoration/remastering by audiophile engineer
Ezra Lesser
.
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