***WAREHOUSE FIND!!! LAST COPIES AVAILABLE!!! Finally, an official reissue of this reality-challenged, 1970 British dark acid folk classic. Sounding like Tom Rapp on a horror trip, FINN sets out on a journey of nightmarish folk, which knows no appeasement. The mania shining through is greatly enhanced by the ability of multi-instumentalist DAVID TOOP to play several different songs simultaneously, seemingly without relation to the songs the other two are playing. Guitars appear in the wrong key, song structure is blissfully ignored. Four extra tracks and a lavish 20 page booklet with liner notes by Simon Finn, David Toop, Vic Keary (of Mushroom records who originally released the album) and David Tibet of Current 93
CD $13.00
03/19/2021
Few albums define a genre as succinctly as Simon Finn’s Pass The Distance does for psychedelic folk. Not even landmark recordings by Pearls Before Swine or Skip Spence can stand up to the sheer madness of Finn’s sole LP, originally released in 1970. After moving to London in 1967, Finn busked around town for a couple years before entering Camden’s Chalk Farm Studios, best known for producing a string of reggae hits. Pass The Distance, however, would become more than a solo-acoustic project. Backed by free-improvisation innovators David Toop and Paul Burwell, Finn’s dark, personal songs unravel lysergically over 40 minutes. Toop’s sinewy electric guitar and Burwell’s broad percussive palette lift up Finn’s ardent strumming and snarling vocals, making this one wild ride in catharsis, introspection and raw merriment. As Finn tells journalist Dave Segal in an interview for this vinyl reissue, “The songs were about alienation and loneliness. ‘Jerusalem’ came to me in one shot. I wrote it on mescaline and was playing it over and over and one of my flatmates wrote it down.” Pass The Distance remains a “cult record” in the best sense of the term, possessing a hypnotic beauty all its own.
LP $22.00
11/09/2018
*** The first collection of new material from legendary psych folk giant Simon Finn since the release of his seminal album Pass the Distance. Recorded in a more personal and stripped down style and featuring Joolie Wood from Current 93 on violin!
CD $13.00
06/14/2005
MP3 $0.00
06/14/2005
***Limited edition (500) five-song EP.
CDEP $13.00
10/12/2004