By Markus Holler
The legendary ORGONEBOX album, has been released, under the title “Centaur” by Sugarbush Records on vinyl. This great album (see screen shot of back and front of cover) was recorded for- and briefly released by – TDK Records Japan.
TDK went under and so did the album’s release until by a strange and fortuitous road it was re-discovered by Bill Forsyth of London’s Minus Zero Records. Issued to massive acclaim in 2001 it nearly got Rick (Corcoran, for he IS Orgonebox) a deal with Parlophone. But slipping once again into the ether Rick kept a low profile for ten years until Sugarbush Records tempted him out of hibernation. He has obliged wonderfully with this version of that classic first album.
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Imagine John Lennon fronting Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound with McCartney helping out (again) with the songwriting: This record is a sweet shop filled with mindbending sounds, jangling guitars, phased vocals and brilliant songs. The original recordings have been radically reworked. The songs have been mastered at the correct speed this time, some have been completely newly recorded and there is a brand new song – “Wethouse”! The sequencing is more in tune with the whole concept of the original recordings and one of the weaker tracks has been dropped. This is a little gem that deserves to be discovered over and over again.
It will never win a Brit award, but those in the “Know” will appreciate a work of real quality that some will consider a work of genius.
http://www.sugarbushrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/orgonebox
If you don’t grab the vinyl release mp3s are also available via http://theactivelistener.bandcamp.com/album/orgone-box-centaur-al012
