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Fetus Water #168 CD £13.99 Great news that a quality label - Water - has finally stepped into the breach and taken it upon themselves to rescue the back catalogue of one of Europe's most endlessly fascinating progressive provocateurs, Mr Franco Battiato. Battiato represents the cream of the early-70s Italian prog/freak sound, characterised by melancholy, flat-lined retro-futurist synth stylings, ornate sci-fi productions and foppish proto-Faust song stylings that marry decadent acid crooning with timeless cocktail folk moves and moments of gothic opera. This great and necessary reissue comes complete with liners by Jim O'Rourke, recalling first being turned on to Battiato by Christoph Heemann and the ‘secret influence' that Battiato had on the 90s underground. Highly recommended. |
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s/t Water 958 CD £15.99 Sill was a star-crossed singer-songwriter who signed to David Geffen's Asylum imprint in the early-70s, taking her place alongside artists like Joni Mitchell and others associated with the 'Laurel Canyon sound'. A habitual heroin user and one-time prostitute, Sill combined the broken bones of a life led on the lamb with a beatific, otherworldly air, both of which lent her music a desperate religious intensity. During her lifetime she only released two official albums - 1971's Judee Sill and '72's Heartfood - before disappearing underground, eventually succumbing to a heroin overdose at the age of 35 in 1979. This new reissue, packaged in a heavy card gatefold sleeve, restores her first 1971 album, an atmospheric assemblage of songs of redemption, despair and Christological mystery and features the classic "Jesus Was A Crossmaker". Limited edition of 2500 copies. Recommended. |
