ORIGINAL LP (NOT a reissue) released on ATCO records (cat#SD 36-121), made in USA, 1975

SONNY & LINDA SHARROCK PARADISE

TRACKS:

A1Apollo Written-By – , ,  7:45A2End Of The Rainbow Written-By –  2:57A3Miss Doris Written-By –  9:14B11953 Blue Boogie Children Written-By –  6:57B2Peaceful Written-By – ,  4:18B3Gary's Step Written-By –  8:22 Credits Bass –  Drums –  Guitar –  Keyboards –  Percussion –  Producer –  Voice – 

"...this time around the Sharrocks did away with their own history, as well as that of the genre, letting out something that defiantly remains unclassifiable and as outside of human time as that oft-idealized Paradise itself.

Taking their cue from modern R&B; radio and slick funk, "Apollo" commences with a dusted Diana Ross-like sighing before Linda decides to have a deep-throating contest, taking the mic far down her gullet for some gurgling. Meanwhile, the backing band starts acting like a zooted Gap Band before morphing into a prog band midway through, escalating into the upper registers of the synth. Sonny Sharrock starts off with a jubilant, almost African guitar tone, but then performs some positively dripping primordial No-Wave slobber in endlessly cascading/ascending guitar lines that slurp and go just far enough out, setting the table for the next 20 years of New York guitarists-- right up to Sonic Youth's shredding on "100%". By the time Linda's punched back into the track, with her salving vocal sighs and soft instrumental bedding, the crazy jag that just occurred is all but forgotten."

VINYL and jacket are in Near MINT minus (NM-) condition.

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