THE BLACK SUN ENSEMBLE – The Black Sun Ensemble (Volume 2). Lion Productions LION LP-194. NEW UNPLAYED COLOR VINYL RECORD ALBUM. This item does not come factory sealed. Originally issued in 1985. This exclusive Lion edition issued in 2023 in a limited numbered run of 150 copies, pressed on transparent seagrass blue vinyl (this is #127 / 150); this edition features the white background cover art, housed in a clear outer open-ended poly sleeve with hype sticker, as shipped by the label. This item will be shipped with the disc outside the jacket. Also co-released by Return To Analog (RTAI-008) on black vinyl, limited to 500 copies; listed separately, if it is still available. Comes with an 8-page booklet, with notes by Byron Coley, BSE bassist Mike Glidewell, Rich Hopkins (songwriter, Sidewinder, and founder of San Jacinto Records), and a reproduction of a poetry volume by BSE’s Jesus Acedo. MEMBERS: Jesus Acedo (guitar), Michael Glidewell (bass), and John Brett (drums).
TRACKS:
SIDE A:
01) Mayan Dance CD = Heart of the Sky vinyl long or alt (4:53)
02) Cobracalia CDR = Mayan Dance vinyl – alt (2:52)
03) Dove Of The Desert CD = new track (4:38)
04) Ice Breaker (Golden Rays vinyl-alt) (4:52)
05) Emerald Eye (Dove vinyl) (3:53)
06) Red Ocean CD = new track (2:54)
SIDE B:
07) Blue Thunder (3:39)
08) Golden Rays CD = Blue Thunder vinyl alt (5:12)
09) Heart Of The Sky = Ruby Eyes vinyl alt (5:05)
10) Ruby Eyes Of China CD = Mandolin Winds LP long alt (4:21)
11) Mandolin Winds (4:22)
12) A Chunk Of Mandolin Love CD = new track (4:26)
DESCRIPTION:
"The music here still sounds as gorgeous to me as it did when I first stumbled across it. The magnificent weight of Jesus’ guitar work is always a surprise. From the midst of the most gently-drawn sand waves, he rises with his scimitar gleaming black in the hot desert sun to fulfill a mission whose orders only he can hear. What more could you ask for? I mean, really?" —Byron Coley
Lion’s second volume of the Black Sun Ensemble’s recordings for their classic first album contains an alternate version of that album, including the tracks from the Camera Obscura label CD (c. the year 2000) version of that album — well, sort of.
When sifting through the masters while preparing the Lion reissue of the real, actual first Black Sun Ensemble album — as issued in 1985 on Pyknotic — it became clear that many of the original LP tracks were also on the Camera Obscura CD release, but under the wrong names. Others were present, but in versions which differed from the Pyknotic LP versions — and again, under the wrong names. So, for example, Mayan Dance on the CD is actually the same theme as the Pyknotic LP Heart Of The Sky, but not the same take. Here’s the kicker: some of the tracks on the Camera Obscura CD share a name with a track from the Pyknotic LP, but are in fact completely new recordings, with no comparable on that original LP. Blue Thunder, Red Ocean, and Mandolin Winds are three such compositions. This means that there are basically two quite different Blue Thunder’s written by Jesus; two utterly different Red Ocean’s; and two absolutely not-the-same Mandolin Winds too.
As a result, there are two separate Lion LP releases of Black Sun Ensemble’s self-titled debut recordings: volume one (LION LP-193) with a black background cover, as per the original, is just that: the original 1985 Pyknotic LP reissued for the first time. This Volume 2 album (LION LP-194), with a white background cover, contains alternates and new tracks, as released on the CD reissue of BSE’s debut. “We felt it was important to keep the Pyknotic LP separate, to do justice to the original vision Jesus Acedo had when he self-released that music, and (eventually) found a segment of the world very willing to embrace it. But the other variations of that music are equally excellent and important, thus this second, separate LP for those gems.” Lion Productions
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