Chris Eckman - The Land We Knew The BestChris Eckman is one of those songwriters with the alchemists touch. Hes proved it over the years as the songwriter of the Seattle rock folk band The Walkabouts, as well as across a lauded six album solo career. His songs have been recorded by Townes Van Zandt, Steve Wynn, Willard Grant Conspiracy (and others), and his last album, the spare, haunted Where the Spirit Rests, won the prestigious German Record Critics Award (Preis der Deutschen

During a transitional time

'Ritual' was originally released in 1971 on the Dutch label Omega International (Gomez was born in Holland before moving to Belgium in the late 40s)

Format: 2 x Vinyl Limited Edition

Lollapalooza (Santiago

Quartin pulled together the best team available

Hailing from a place of ancient mariners' secret coves and vast moors beaten by the wind and rain

the Go-Betweens and - most enigmatic of them all - the Triffids

Sauser-Monnig sums up their ethos on the project succinctly: “If it doesn’t make you cackle or cry

like Janus

Daniel Ellis (guitar)

to draw us out of the mundane and into the realm of the transcendent

released on 27 January 2004