SIMON FINN – Pass The Distance UK Acid Folk Psych – Out of Print MINT RE – Rare

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SIMON FINN: “Pass The Distance”

LABEL: Mayfair Music

Label Number: MFM-006

Long Gone & Out of Print ONLY LEGAL reissue of this intense apocalyptic acid folk LP. Fully sourced and straight from the master tapes. With inserts. Edition of only 500 copies

GRADING:

LP Record: MINT, unplayed

Jacket: Near Mint ~ MINT

2 Separate Inserts: Mint

Some words on this issue: FINN, SIMON: “Pass The Distance” (Mayfair Music) (Unplayed). Finally a first legal reissue of this obscure and fantastic UK acid folk album. The music can be best described as "apocalyptic folk", in the vein of the second Bill Fay LP. Simon Finn’s sole recorded album originally released on the UK Mushroom label in 1970 and withdrawn shortly after its release is as influential as recently rediscovered obscurities such as Comus, The Trees and Jan Dukes de Grey. To name but a few.  Personally, Simon Finn’s album is an unique album, be it for its unorthodox musical content, and for its rarity. Just like Bill Fay’s output, “pass the Distance” simply evades any easy categorization. The music is filled with melancholy, doom-laden prophesizing (just like Fay), but on tracks like "Jerusalem" and "Big White Car," Finn enters uncharted waters of an unequalled vocal rage, madness and hysteria in an attempt to avenge deities and unleashing a never before encountered ethereal wrath, all combined with primitive but poignant acoustic backing that were contributed by the young multi-instrumentalist David Toop. Toop and percussionist Paul Burwell were given free reign in order to extrapolate on Finn's songs as a blank slate for experimentation and improvisation. It resulted in a free from constraints, anarchic and nihilistic setting for Simon Finn's songs to take shape unto. Mandolin and harmonium lines that defied and neglected any melodic concerns are all over the place, only attributing to the already apocalyptic atmosphere to hover over the session. Add to that the use or misuse of heavy echo, stereo fading and phasing and you get a totally dislocated sense for structure, song which only alters the tension and greatness of the music that resulted out of it all. Just murderously beautiful and one of the best folk albums to seep out of the UK. Limited one time pressing of only 500 copies and long out of print.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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