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Reduced price, last copies. Bonfire Records present a reissue of Siren's self-titled album, originally released on John Peel's Dandelion label in 1969. Siren was the debut album by Kevin Coyne with Siren, the band he founded with former Bonzo Dog Band bassist Dave Clague and pianist/guitarist Nick Cudworth. An artist who would later inspire John Lydon, Sting, Ben Watt, and Will Oldham and would collaborate with Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Dagmar Krause, Brendan Croker, Gary Lucas, and The Mekons' Jon Langford, Kevin Coyne deserves a royal place between the likes of Syd Barrett, Peter Hammill, and Daevid Allen. Standing on the verge of British blues, folk and rawk n' roll, Siren could have been easily labeled as the British answer to Canned Heat, but there's even more. "And I Wonder" is clearly an anticipation of what would happen next, with the solo career of Coyne, more focused on acid folk songwriting. Licensed by Cherry Red. 180 gram vinyl. "Most of the album is good time rock-on-out-music a la the Flamin' Groovies... one of those (albums) you keep coming back to when the night gets cold and the wine is almost out. I play it a lot, and that's the nicest thing I can say about an album." --Ed Ward, Rolling Stone. "Siren just came as a breath of fresh air really, in the same way that like a generation later The Ramones did. When you just thought 'Thank God for that!' You hadn't realized how bored you'd become..." --John Peel.
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COMP 496EP
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Devi Mambouka gives voice to Lulu in the song and inhabits the heroine's indifference to bourgeois convention with graceful and sensual defiance. The lyrics herald transformations and builds on the ideas of Siren's previous songs. In the barren context of contemporary dance music, which seems indifferent to the ideas of art and philosophy, Siren draws inspiration from lyricists like David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, and writers like John Ashbery and William Burroughs. Lulu's sleek production and affecting rhythms evoke a journey taken, nocturnal and urgent. Includes a remix by Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi. Cover art by Erik Foss.
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COMP 478EP
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Siren is Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area, Startree) and Dennis Kane (Disques Sinthomme, Ghost Town). Their third single, "Paradise," They follow 2015's sweeping and euphoric "A/Way" (COMP 471EP) with "Paradise," a slowly unfolding workout as haunting as it is thumping and propulsive; it hints at the compositional economy of that liminal mid-'80s period when R&B and the developing sound of club music met, as downtown NY icon Felice Rosser effortlessly delivers a powerful but breathy and emotionally evocative vocal. Gavin Russom (Black Meteoric Star, DFA) delivers a dark, mechanical techno dub of "Paradise" on the B-side.
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Siren is the new recording project from Darshan Jesrani and Dennis Kane. Their first offering, "Gauntlet," is a moody, rich maelstrom of a song which embraces everything from heavy disco, to West African guitar, to soundtrack and theme music, to Adrian Belew. It features the guitar and bass work of Mark Dann (Left Field), percussion by Sal Principato (Liquid Liquid), vocals by Daniel Chavis (Apollo Heights, The Veldt) and spoken parts by legendary griot Vito Palmore to guide the way. A swirling, joyful, mesmerizing romp of a remix by the esteemed Ray Mang fills out the flip.
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