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COWLEY, Patrick/CANDIDA ROYALLE - Candida Cosmica - Vinyl (12")
Sold Date:
April 26, 2019
Start Date:
October 17, 2016
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information Patrick COWLEY/CANDIDA ROYALLE Candida Cosmica(12" + insert + booklet) Dark Entries US
Cat: DE 140. Rel: 24 Oct 16
Coldwave/Synth
Side 1 - Track 1. Candida Cosmica Side 1 - Track 2. Elementals Side 2 - Track 1. Shimmering (Where Am I?) Side 2 - Track 2. Tantum Ergo Side 2 - Track 3. Tomato Song
The latest previously unheard Patrick Cowley material to get the Dark Entries treatment was recorded between 1972 and 1975, and made in collaboration with budding actress - and later feminist pornography icon - Candida Royalle. It was apparently intended for experimental theatre productions, and contains some of Cowley's most enthralling, out-there electronic experiments. Royalle's freestyle vocals take pride of place on the spacey, otherworldly opener "Candida Cosmica", before weaving in and out of Cowley's sparse, alien electronics on 12-minute B-side cut "Shimmering (Where Am I)?". Perhaps the most inspired track of the lot - and that's saying something - is the proto-ambient weirdness of "Elementals", which makes great use of fuzzy radio records and curious modular noises.
