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JAY BOLOTIN

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LOCUST119
CD / 180 GRAM LP/DOWNLOAD

"Criminally overlooked at the time of its release in 1970, this self-titled masterpiece recorded by (then) twenty-year-old Jay Bolotin is rescued from complete obscurity by Locust Music, and in 2009, Bolotin's genius has never sounded fresher or more relevant. This is earnest, timeless folk, replete with strangely beautiful instrumentation and lyricism that is reminiscent of the poetic intelligence of Leonard Cohen or Dylan." - Other Music

Described by Kris Kristofferson as “one of the three best songwriters in the country,” Kentucky native Jay Bolotin's songs have been championed by the likes of Merle Haggard and Porter Wagoner, among many others.

Yet Jay's eponymous debut - released on the major subsidiary Commonwealth United label - had the halflife of a mayfly when it went into circulation in 1970 and today it remains as phantasmic as the prairie ghosts that have long populated his native Kentucky.

However hasty or uncertain the release of the album may have been some 40 years ago, one thing is certain: in a darkened room in New York City at the end of a Kentucky childhood, a 20 year old Jay Bolotin cut a singularly enchanted album of unhurried, low key loner ballads with the confidence and honesty of a seasoned journeyman.

Jay Bolotin is an unqualified singer songwriter gem that will appeal to fans of Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt & Alex Chilton. Features Kenny Lyon on Bass & Mark Taber on Piano & Harpsichord- both veterans of the Providence, Rhode Island scene, The Fugs' Bobby Mason on percussion and David Mowry on guitar.

Deluxe 180 Gram vinyl featuring new liner notes and lyrics inserts. CD packaged in a trifold digipak with previously unpublished photos. Remastered & reissued for the first time since it's elusive ‘release'.


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TOM FAZZINI
NECK TO NECK
LOCUST 120
180 GRAM LP

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"One of the big daddy titles of outwardly bound fuckery...what a demented lost gem this is...this left field treasure chest opens to unveil a uniquely human and fried (and sometimes hilariously limp and dejected sounding) form of mutated synth pop that mates the smurfy insularity of NWW-listers Bomis Prendin to the quease atmospheres and jerry rigged electronic structures of The Storm Bugs and the primitive synthetics and campily declamatory spieling of Todd Clark or Ian Macfarlane to Frankie Teardrop-like Suicide-al psychodramatics. Only happier."-MutantSounds                                                      

“The record was made with the backdrop of recovery - a new place to live and a chance at renewal -quite on the edge, lots of anger and the absurdity of life all swirling around. Remember believing at the time that I would probably have a short life, so that desperation fed into the album. First and last chance to maybe say something on record.It took several months to record and each session was a short burst. Towards the end of the recording a welcome sense of levity crept in, spurred on by the ludicrous casio pre-sets. That felt good, given the whole Industrial scene, in the broad sense, was a bit earnest and po-faced. The album title came to me from being familiar with a bar called ‘the swan with two necks'. I imagined Lyn and myself as two separate swans , damaged, their necks entwined and in my mind that poetically offset the industrial harshness within the grooves.” -Tom Fazzini

Neck To Neck is a head scratching slab of warped primitive synth punk cut by a young Tom Fazzini in exile from a madness inducing tenure as a London postal carrier at Paul Dillon's Complex studios. Originally released in 1984 on Gordon A. Hope's short lived A-mission label (which also counted releases by Asmus Tietchens & O Yuki Conjugate),Tom Fazzini's combination of minimal synth and brutalist /absurdist industrial songs had more in line with the broader discomforts of the early 80s international tape network, Family Fodder, LAFMS,Flying Lizards and Ralph records than the agit pop that dominated the Leeds music scene at the time.Once an outsider, always an outsider. Features new liner notes by Tom Fazzini & previously unpublished photos. Remastered and pressed up on 180 gram virgin vinyl. one time edition of 500.