PIG RIDERHeterophonies with bloody turkey sandwiches

Genre: Psyche
Label: Sommor
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SKU: 014369 Release Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016

Description

Although nearly 60 people have played in Pig Rider or its various offshoots over the years, there have only been two ever- present members, Colin Kitchener and John Mayes, who founded the band at Sevenoaks School in Kent, England in the late 60s. They met when they were 12, and not long after began haunting the music rooms at the school to hammer out current three- chord pop songs on pianos.
After a number of other names (including D Jabferg Flossyakkit and Bob Scratch and his Country and South Eastern Spring Blues Band) they settled on ‘The Pig Rider Robinson Heterophony’ to perform under. After an attempt to build a seven- foot robot bassist called Peregrine Robinson to front the band failed the name was finally abbreviated to its current form.
Pig Rider’s music has been described as ”joke folk / mock rock” and although they claim that their minds were only altered by lot of beer drinking, there’s a real psychedelic element to it. Also, they should be regarded as pioneers of the DIY movement which would came a few years later. They recorded at home with rudimentary equipment, they used handmade modified instruments (”orgasmatron”, ”banjelele”, ”torture machine”, ”aquaphone”, ”swanee bicycle pump”?) and they self- released a series of acetate only albums housed in primitive, handmade sleeves.
”Heterophonies” was originally pressed by the custom label Deroy as a private edition of five acetates in 1975. The music is an amazing mix of psychedelic electric folk, acid folk and twisted pop with funny / bizarre lyrics, tape experimentation, effects and homemade / stoned atmosphere.

Tracks

01. Beyond The Pail
02. The Insect Song
03. Dracula
04. Old John Braddleham
05. Ayleen May
06. A Tribute To Glenn Miller
07. Sheepstealer
08. Head Bashing Song
09. Being Menaced By A Dinosaur
10. Busted Bedspring Country Honk
11. Something Very Nasty
12. Kropotkin's Lament
13. The Solicitor's Lay
14. Abbot Wulfrig's Rotunda
15. Dirt City 'Live'
16. Concert On The Coast
17. Shine On
18. Waltz Of The Homicidal Cabbage
19. Lonely Loss Adjuster Blues
20. Which Way To The Exit?
21. Wombat
22. South Coast Express
23. Pus In Our Time
24. World's Greatest Lover
25. Blue Hair And Carrots
26. Ode To An Aardvark
27. Have You Seen Your Neighbour In The Bath?
28. Paeolithic Transport Blues
29. Be Glad For The Song Has An Ending
30. Pittsburgh Woman Blues
31. Interdrive Overstella
32. Big Joe