For more than 30 years troubadour wailer Dan Ireton, aka Dredd Foole, has called upon the spirit of 78 shellac blues n' psychedelic Stooges n' Velvets to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. Whether solo or leading mass, Foole hints at the classic forms of Blood On The Tracks and the celestial fug of Sun Ra's third-eye vision to create an approach untraveled yet increasingly influential (see: Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man). 

Produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by Matt "MV" Valentine (Bummer Road, Tower Recordings), Kissing The Contemporary Bliss spans 50 miles of elbow room (it's a double CD) and kicks up the most outward bound and staggering approaches to Gus Cannon's "Walk Right In" and Robert Johnson's "Stones In My Passway" while offering ear-popping originals colored by Erika Elder's jug blowin' and Coot Moon's ecstatic, reverb dosed banjo. You'll hear nothing like this in 2008 or beyond. 

Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book with full color photos of The Foole in action. This is the Foole's fourth solo album since 1994's In Quest of Tense and part of an American musical evolution that began with his debut 45 single leading The Din in 1982. Kissing... was originally released in an extremely limited edition by Valentine's Child of Microtones imprint in 2005. This reissue contains superior remastered sound and radically reworked design and cover art. 

Dredd Foole – Kissing the Contemporary Bliss

Label: Family Vineyard – FV56 

Format: 2 x CD, Album, Reissue 

Country: US 

Released: 2008 

Genre: Jazz, Rock, Blues 

Style: Folk Rock, Acoustic, Psychedelic Rock, Free Improvisation 

1-1 Dog Star Waltz 10:14 

1-2 Above Ground Friend 7:01 

1-3 I Wuz Born 3:04 

1-4 Lay Lady Lay (Be) 7:15 

1-5 Walk Right In 11:23 

1-6 Lips 3:51 

1-7 Once I Was Not 3:04 

1-8 Raga Moderne #1 1:26 

2-1 Light at the Ditch of a Spoonful 8:47 

2-2 Jungle Nigh High 3:38 

2-3 The Jug Is Glowin' 4:53 

2-4 Boom Boom (For Willie Alexander) 7:55 

2-5 Girl from the North Country 6:38 

2-6 Stones in My Passway 6:05 

2-7 Aquarian Wind 3:28 

2-8 Raga Moderne #2 1:24 

Recorded At – Maximum Arousal Farm 

Acoustic Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar [12 String], Harmonica, Electric Bass [Rickenbacker], Shenai, Flute, Mixed By – Matt Valentine

 Banjo – Coot Moon 

Jug [Acoustic, Electric], Tambura, Shruti Box [Sruti Box], Ukulele, Graphics – Erika Elder 

Lyrics By [All Songs, Titles And Stories By] – Dredd Foole (tracks: 1-1, 1-2, 1-6 to 2-4, 2-7, 2-8) 

Producer – MV 

Reissue Producer – Eric Weddle 

Voice, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Synth [Spectrsynth], Percussion – Dredd Foole 

Voice, Photography By – Pi 

Produced in Spectasound. 

Recorded at Maximum Arousal Farm & Foole's Ashram between autumn 2003 n' autumn 2004. 

Originally released in stereo and mono editions of 99 each during 2005 by The Child of Microtones Terran Library of Exploratory Music. 

Packaged in gatefold sleeve. 

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