tracks

Waiting For The Woman
Endless River
Move Up Trotsky
Monkeys & Degenerates
Working (7" single version)
Feel
Power
Vegetable
Woman Inside
Primal Screaming
I Tried
Pictures Of You
Addicted
New Dark Ages
Time
Night Games & Working (live 1980)

notes

This timely compilation documents the first flourishing of psych-punks Brainiac 5, born out of the free-flowing Cornish freak-scene of the mid-70s. Featuring seventeen extremely rare recordings, highlighting the band’s New Wave smarts melded with lysergic guitar workouts influenced by the late-60s San Francisco scene, the release comprises the band’s 7-inchs, along with sole long-player World Inside, produced by Hawkwind/Hawklords drummer Martin Griffin, and live tracks recorded at The White Horse, Launceston in 1980. Including a sixteen-page booklet with full band history by archivist Colin Hill, When Silence Was Sound is packaged in mindbending art from the paintbox of noted UK artist John Hurford. Released on the specially reactivated Reckless Records imprint, the anthology chimes neatly with the current resurgence in all things psychedelic.

credits

Artwork – John Hurford
Bass, Harmonica, Jew's Harp – Woody (40)
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Steve Hudson
Guitar, Vocals – Richard Booth (tracks: 4 to 17)
Keyboards – Duncan Kerr (tracks: 7, 9, 14)
Layout – Jonathan Hill (5)
Mastered By – Steve Honest
Other [Audio Restoration] – Tony Poole
Recorded By – Martin Griffin
Sleeve Notes – Colin Hill (2)
Vocals – Carol Mercer (tracks: 4)
Vocals, Guitar – Bert Biscoe (tracks: 1 to 4), Charles Taylor

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