golden cup - vagabond (12inch vinyl lp)

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*DISCOUNTED - EACH SLEEVE HAS ONE SLIGHTLY BENT CORNER* Listening to a short clip or even a few minutes of Golden Cup's Vagabond won't do you much good. This is the type of long-form psychedelic "jam" music that you've got to willingly enter for the long haul. Once inside you will discover many trademarks of the genre: wandering guitar/bass instrumentation that never quite shreds but seems perpetually in the midst of a stoned solo, loose Mitch Mitchell-style drumming, and a lot of swirling sounds and bongos. The single-track A side is pretty standard psychedelic fare, but side B starts by mixing things up with minimal rhythms and some flute and synth interplay (at least I think it's a synth). The music becomes more interesting when you're given breathing room, an idea that the last track nails; even though there's an insistent guitar drone accompanied by loose hand-drumming, each element melds together effortlessly, giving us a taste of Golden Cup at their most zoned in. - Keith Rankin,Experimedia

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Brand new full length from Golden Cup featuring a new expanded 4 piece. Vagabond features 3 tracks, the opening 15 minute tracks takes up the full A side with wild psychedelic percussion and floating riffs, it's one hell of a jam. The B side features two shorter pieces, the first which are totally tranced out tribal percussive pieces, it sound nuts. The closing tracks is the perfect blend of the previous two tracks, crazy percussions, hazy guitars, far out flutes. The new expanded line up has pushed Golden Cup to a new level of other-worldly psychedelia. Edition of 250 copies. Cut at 45 rpm for maximum fidelity!