RARE DON BRADSHAW LEATHER 2LP THE ENID
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DON BRADSHAW-LEATHER
DISTANCE BETWEEN US
DISTANCE RECORDS
AN ORIGINAL UK DON BRADSHAW LEATHER 2 LP ON THE DISTANCE LABEL 1972, COVER HAS SLIGHT WEAR. ACCORDING TO THE RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE THIS IS ROBERT JOHN GODFREY FROM THE ENID.
"Who the hell is Don Bradshaw-Leather? Not much is known about him, but his self-released LP Distance Between Us (Distance Records, 1972) is certainly one bizarre egg. It's on the infamous Nurse With Wound list of Steven Stapleton's favorite weird records. There's hardly a thing about this double LP on the web besides want lists and offers for sale, though rumour has it that Don was a wealthy hippie (some say a member of The Enid) who was squatting around London in the early 1970's, whereabouts unknown now. The four lengthy tracks here ("Distance Between Us" Parts 1 & 2, "Dance of the Goblins", and "Autumn Mist") are dense, swirling, and hellish tapestries of blurred instrumentation, squawking voices buried in the mix, and seemingly no layout of progression from point A to point B in various movements (i.e. it's all a giant progression, but almost like a dog chasing its tail in a mad frenzy). Tracks have the leanings of some epic Messaien pieces in some ways, though imagine Bradshaw-Leather taking his symphony and filtering it through some kind of lo-fi source like a boombox or something and then just went bananas in the post-mix. And if the front cover wasn't insane enough, he's again in Wolfman-garb on the back with a screaming topless woman. The whole sleeve package seems to be hand-cut and stitched as well...."
Description from http://www.myspace.com/donbradshawleather
Condition of records is used but no visible damage.
