The Enormous Midnight and Nine Other Nocturnes, by Clyde and The Nightswingers

The Enormous Midnight and Nine Other Nocturnes

by Clyde and The Nightswingers

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1.	The Enormous Midnight 03:55	buy track
2.	Late Last Night 03:59	buy track
3.	Fright Time Chills 03:47	buy track
4.	They Went That'a Way 03:55	buy track
5.	Wah-Wah Baby 02:41	buy track
6.	On the Elevator Up 03:38	buy track
7.	Down in the Subterranean 05:39	buy track
8.	Rib It 03:00	buy track
9.	Should I Choose (?) 02:50	buy track
10.	The High Flavored 03:06	buy track

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Clyde and the Nightswingers came together to record the Theme song for a 1967 “Art Film.” If LSD ingested during a gathering of members of the U.S. Air Force and delinquent girls is your idea of an Art Film, then the only way to see it is to close your eyes and let The Enormous Midnight seep into your brain. The film is lost, but Nightswinger sounds are found on this Arcania International LP. Sounds kind of psychedelic, yes. But there’s more to the story and indeed a story it is. For the most part we hear a Garage band that seems to have been dropped into a vat of acid, then coming out as if totally Psyched! So – experimentation! That adds to a lost, M.I.A. quality, with a folkie (Clyde) trying his best to conjure up “lyrics as art” while singing/screaming them across this entire album. Yes, this tells a story, but despite death wish words and a long night of the soul, it ends happily. Because it’s just a (fuzzy/feedback/explosive/electrical) dream. But not music to go to sleep to.

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released February 9, 2021

Mixed at Virginia Arts Charlottesville, VA

Many thanks to V.A. for services beyond the call, including finding machines to format 4 & 8 track tapes. Burning the midnight oil and baking tapes was required. Mixes are Stereo or Mono due to different facets. The Enormous Midnight Stereo mix was truly an almost unending, nearly nervous breakdown, nightmare!!

Thanks also to -
Bill Rotsler, Sam at Feel It Records, C2 Communications, Stacy for the loan of his Gibson 335 guitar on Should I Choose & Waiting Still, past positive reviewers and liner notes writer Count No, who adds -

"I was also the writer of liner notes for Arcania International 45s #1 & #2. Apologies and addendum:
AI 45 #1 indeed did sell out of its press of 500 copies. It was not, as I stated, a flop, as was AI 45 #2.
P.S. R.I.P. S.S."

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