{"product_id":"shiva-burlesque-mercury-blues-skulduggery-blue-vinyl-double-lp","title":"SHIVA BURLESQUE - Mercury Blues + Skulduggery blue vinyl double LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt long last, the double LP vinyl edition of the definitive expanded re-issue of Shiva Burlesque’s classic second album is now available. This translucent blue vinyl edition includes both a remastered version of the original \u003cem\u003eMercury Blues\u003c\/em\u003e album along with a second album consisting of previously unreleased demos and outtakes titled \u003cem\u003eSkulduggery\u003c\/em\u003e. This numbered blue vinyl edition (limited to the first 450 copies) also features entirely new artwork, printed in 5 colors on IPR’s iconic die-cut packaging, a 5-color 12” x 24” folding insert with liner notes by David Fricke - who in a 1988 issue of Melody Maker called the sound of Shiva Burlesque “a marriage of Joy Division’s shadowy abstractions and Love’s \u003cem\u003eForever Changes\u003c\/em\u003e,\" and includes a postcard-sized full-color download card with code for a free download of the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCreators of what Uncut Magazine editor Allan Jones lauded as “timeless, brilliant music,” Shiva Burlesque was founded by transplanted northern Californians Jeffrey Clark and Grant-Lee Phillips, emerging from the alternative music scene of subterranean Hollywood\/Downtown Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Drawing comparisons to everything from John Cale to Echo \u0026amp; the Bunnymen to early Leonard Cohen, and described by All Music Guide as “a powerful and graceful band too post-punk to be folk rock, and too folk to be post-punk,” the group forged its eclectic (and at times hallucinatory) sound in Raji’s, the Anti Club, The Scream and similar fly-by-night L.A. venues of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShiva Burlesque released a pair of vivid, multi-faceted albums: Shiva Burlesque (1987) with drummer Joey Peters and bassist James Brenner; followed by Mercury Blues (1990), again with Peters on drums, Paul Kimble replacing Brenner, and featuring cellist Greg Adamson. Between the two albums the songwriting output by Clark and Phillips elevated into high gear, and the band recorded a number of new songs in demo versions, mostly on a home studio eight track cassette machine with Paul Kimble engineering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWork began on the Mercury Blues album proper in early summer of 1990, tracking (largely after-hours during “down time”) at Village Recorders, one of the best equipped, finest sounding, studios in Los Angeles at the time. Along with the intense and potent results of those sessions, IPR’s beautiful, remastered, 2021 reissue includes a bonus album of ten of the demo songs, none of which have ever been previously released.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlthough both Shiva Burlesque albums garnered high praise in the US and in Europe (\"a trip into startled wonder,\" Melody Maker, 1988) and resonated deeply with tuned-in listeners, they found scant commercial success in the proto-Grunge \/ pre-Shoegaze era. The group disbanded in late 1990, thereby helping to midwife the also excellent Grant Lee Buffalo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independent Project Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49719854203117,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0804\/6995\/0701\/files\/88ce898a-e1014b_7d151fba1f954a18ad0d208783c74f5c_mv2.png?v=1774300800","url":"https:\/\/shop.independentprojectrecords.com\/products\/shiva-burlesque-mercury-blues-skulduggery-blue-vinyl-double-lp","provider":"Independent Project Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}