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01. PIP PROUD - Adreneline and Richard (First time re-issue)
02. PIP PROUD - De Da De Dum (First time re-issue)
03. PIP PROUD - Latin Version (First time re-issue)
04. PIP PROUD - A Fraying Space
05. PIP PROUD - The Sun Was Yellow (First time re-issue)
06. PIP PROUD - Purple Boy Gang
07. PIP PROUD - A Bird in the Engine
08. PIP PROUD - They Took Us All So Kindly
09. PIP PROUD - French Girls
10. PIP PROUD - An Old Servant
11. PIP PROUD - Laughter and Laughter (First time re-issue)
12. PIP PROUD - Eagle-Wise
13. PIP PROUD - She Dwindles Her Fingers
14. PIP PROUD - Adreneline and Richard
15. PIP PROUD - Jumped in My Rowboat
16. PIP PROUD - Starship (Previously unissued)
17. PIP PROUD - Don't Push Me Off
ARTIST
TITLE
A Fraying Space
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
EM 1121LP EM 1121LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/22/2014

LP version. Includes an innersleeve with liner notes and lyrics. Pip Proud, sui generis, could be considered an Australian outsider, with his untutored and uninhibited singing style, his primal guitar playing, his resolutely personal vision captured on recordings from 1967 to the early '70s -- except that, unlike most outsiders, he was loved and accepted, with two of his three album releases on a major label, with frequent television appearances and coverage in music magazines. Heralded in his native land though he was, he maintained a low profile from the early '70s, never made an impact overseas, and his recordings have been difficult to access. This collection has been selected by Proud's biographer David Nichols and will engender a new appreciation of Proud's music. Considered by some as a sort of Antipodean Syd Barrett, listeners will hear that Pip was clearing his own private and primal path, more poet than pop star, despite the media attention. Other than one Velvets-style band track, all songs here feature Pip solo, some with appealingly primitive overdubs. Fans of ramshackle, oddball, weirdo portastudio, lo-fi bedroom pop of the '80s, '90s and beyond, whether of the NZ, UK or U.S. varieties, will find a precursor here.