Strange Fruit (Vinyl LP) ElectronicThe 'Strange Fruit session' for Commodore, was one of those historic moments and part of Billie Holiday's legend hinges on the tremendous courage it took for her go ahead and record this song, knowing that it might well mean the end of her career. Three other songs, found here, were also recorded at that session: 'Yesterdays', 'Fine And Mellow' and 'I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues', while due to contractual issues, the remaining Commodore sides were
Written and recorded over three weeks in February 1977 for a paltry £4
expanded across two discs
Nadler lays the listener - and herself - on the line with 'July'
Hudson Valley
a product of the band's growth and the insanity of the times we're in
Moon Duo's first two critically acclaimed EPS
Abbey Road may have marked the beginning of the end but in creative terms it kept pace with the rest of the bands' -by now - classic back catalogue
Given the conservative nature of the music scene in America at that time and the fact that the LP didn't even feature any guitars
It is also their most accessible record yet
To help shape La Luz
the quartet continued to explore the acid-rock frivolity of 1960's california
School Of Seven Bells and labels such as Sonic Cathedral have ensured that shoegaze is a sound that's eternally relevant
