Nicodemus LP rare psych stoner rock acid outsider folk

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Nicodemus - SpaceChild Squall.  rare LP issue on Zedekian Records.  limited edition #332/500.  hard to find and collectible.  excellent condition.

Nicodemus - "Spacechild Squall" [1977]

Recorded May 15, 1977 .... Live at Dungeon Hall - "This is a live recording - Inspired by a vision of the past...." from back cover.

"Nicodemus is an outsider biker folk dude from Michigan. This album was recorded “live” in 1977, complete with fake applause track. Total “smoking a jay around the campfire” jams. Amazingly the guy actually has a pretty good voice. He repressed 500 copies of the LP a few years ago.

Mysterious underground US freak who creates a bizarre mixture of electric and acoustic psych weirdness. Incredibly diverse styles are used by Nicodemus as he creates garage psych symphonies that overlay insightful and damaged lyrics."

Rare Limited Edition 1995 2nd Pressing Of the Mega Rare 1977 Private Press Original. This Is Number 332 Of 500 Pressings. Total Smoking A Joint Round The Campfire Jams From The Outsider Michigan Biker Folk Fella.

"i went out and bought the LP after i listened to a clip of ‘red sky’. i love the whole album. i want more!"

"Nicodemus has produced a body of work over his more than 30-year career that is stunning in its breadth and shocking in its level of accomplishment, yet is so underexposed that many have never heard of a man whose best music is easily on a par or better than the work of auteurs ranging from Lou Reed to Neil Young to John Lennon to Brian Wilson to Bruce Springsteen. Perhaps it's too much to ask that the terminally clueless Rolling Stone Record Guide have caught on, but St. Nic has been consistently overlooked even by self-proclaimed 'underground' guides like The Trouser Press Record Guide or Unknown Legends Of Rock. Excepting a brief blurb in Jello Biafra's section of the RE/Search book Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. 2 and an error-riddled article in Motorbooty magazine, precious few signposts point the music consumer towards Nicodemus' work.

Through Zedikiah (and in conjunction with other indies such as Crueton Religion, Fat Neighbor, Insignificant, and Parallel Worlds) Nicodemus has released a wide-ranging variety of disparate visions, including solo records; albums recorded with his brother Matchez, whose inimitable percussion and keyboard accompaniment slots perfectly alongside Nicodemus' resonant vocals and sterling guitarwork; group efforts under monikers like N.M.G. and Tablet Z; and guest appearances with outside bands such as Gravitar and Chloerocks Black.  The remarkable scope of his music is one of the most impressive aspects of Nicodemus' work.

Another unique quality of Nicodemus' music is that songs across several albums feature recurring characters and retain a continuous narrative structure found nowhere else in music; it's as if each Bowie album contained another chapter in the life of Ziggy Stardust or the Man Who Sold the World. Characters such as The Greenland Rider and Adrian the Naval King pop up across several records, principally a four-album sequence consisting of the albums Spacechild Squall, What For?, The Strange Saga Of Henryetta Flagetta, and Antannae Moonlite. "[Each album] is like a piece of the puzzle--it makes kind of a story, if any listener takes the time to fool around with it, listen to it and get into the head game involved."  -A. Poehler

Tracks:

A1 - Greenland Rider (4:00)
A2 - Flowers In The Cracks (2:36)
A3 - Red Sky (6:48)
A4 - Take Me (4:24)
B1 - Somewhere In The Distance (3:10)
B2 - So I Won't Be Let Down (3:26)
B3 - Adrain The Naval King (3:24)
B4 - Spacechild Squall (3:00)


take note fans of Gary Higgins, Roky Erickson, outsider psych folk, etc

CONDITION:  excellent


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