The Lone Pigeon - Time Capsule

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4...according to our Clinton on Fri 08 Apr, 2011.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that Domino were releasing this exhaustive collection. There again I'd prefer them to do this than spunk the tax loss on another bunch of no-hopers like plenty of other labels I could mention. Lone Pigeon (aka Gordon Anderson) is a Scotland based artist who formed the (initially excellent) Beta Band then left them with immediate effect. He later formed The (very average) Aliens with two fellow ex-Betas and has reportedly suffered from years of mental illness, probably no suprise when you read that he once consumed 40 magic mushrooms every night for two months. Alas, Anderson is no Daniel Johnston-like tortured genius but a lo-fidelity singer-songwriter whose work has a pleasant warm melancholy to it which is most endearing but certainly not flecked with any greater genius that the lo-fi early Babybird vaults (which this colossal archive closely resembles). I have no time to go through each CD so instead I'm listening to the accompanying 'selection' compilation which reveals an artist basically doing what the hell he likes free of any restrictions or record label interference, some of which is great, some of which is isn't, but all of which is recorded and sung in an extremely affecting manner.

• Lone Pigeon, one of Domino’s most elusive and enigmatic artists, is returning in a big way with the release of ‘Time Capsule’, a massive seven album box set which contains pretty much everything the man has ever made. For Lone Pigeon fans and Fence Collective obsessives, it’s Christmas all over again.

• Packaged in beautiful mini card LP sleeves with dizzyingly colourful artwork that looks like the inside of a child’s distorted imagination has exploded into reality, ‘Time Capsule’ contains tracks which may (or may not) have been released on CDr in the past, and provides a fascinating insight into the mind of an artist who has remained impossible to pin down.

• ‘Time Capsule’ also comes with some illuminating sleeve notes from King Creosote, who happens to be Lone Pigeon’s brother, and who readily admits he finds his brother to be as much of a puzzle as the rest of us.

• This deluxe box set is strictly limited to 200 copies.

Tracklisting:

MOSES
1 Time's A White Rabbit
2 Heaventree
3 Womblight
4 Autumn Stone
5 Don’t Sell My Love
6 Sitting On A Toadstool
7 Waiting
8 Rocks
9 Fly A Plane Down To Meet You
10 Rox
11 Long Way Down
12 Light Of A Sunday
13 Palpitations
14 Sol
15 Summertyme Beeswing
16 Transformers
17 I Came On Home
18 Ants

DR VAMPRIANOS AND HIS OLD MELODIC CHEST OF DWARVES
1 The Trumptons
2 How Can I Go?
3 Incy Wincy Spider
4 Maheema Sitara
5 The Ginger Darth Vader
6 Glover Lowry
7 Wannabe
8 The Future’s Like A Paintbrush
9 Marcus’ Song
10 Sonovox 3
11 Shadow Of Pain
12 Sleeping Away
13 Telescope Engine
14 Simple Simon
15 Jack The Mouse
16 Silly Little Mousemen
17 Picketty Packetty
18 Hunk Papa Cotton
19 Kirkaldy
20 Helter
21 Winter Joseph
22 Someone Ate The Egg Roll
23 Moog Space City
24 Harpsichord Glover
25 Medicine Man
26 Wide Open Space
27 Won’t You Take Me Back?
28 Captain Barnacle
29 Xfam Radio

28 SECRET TRACKS

GLOVER AGAIN
1 Glover
2 Sdlmnm (Organs)
3 Cold Mountain
4 Sound Of A Gun
5 God In His Room
6 Yavtilern
7 Scottish Hills
8 Glover Smile
9 Wooden Shack
10 Unknown Yesterday
11 Rusty Shores
12 Guitar Space
13 Kerry's Orange Window
14 This Beginning Of Miracles

BABY PIANO
1 Empty World (Reprise)
2 Rainbow Pain
3 Same Road
4 Won't You Take Me By The Hand
5 Fyrebird
6 Change My Way
7 Oceanairy
8 Piano Berceuse
9 The Misanthropist
10 Thank You Lord
11 Lonelyman
12 Lady
13 Back To America
14 Oh How The Night Grows Long
15 Billy Jack (Reprise)
16 The Isle Of May
17 Autumn Rain
18 Softer Than A Flower
19 Bakwoodz
20 Seawalk
21 The Raincloud
22 Redwoods

CAKEMONTH
1 Flash Guitar
2 Lovend
3 You Were Once In Love
4 Juicy Little Flies In The Highlands
5 Nancy's Song
6 Sits Alone On A Saturday Night
7 Waiting For You Girl
8 The Last Summer
9 Mr Yesterday
10 Alone (Again)
11 Onlee Back
12 Jiggajigg
13 Riding On The Rain
14 Memory Of America
15 Theremin Layette
16 Tomorrow
17 Spaceriver
18 The Misanthropist
19 Take Me By The Hand
20 Emily
21 Emily Norris
22 My Piano Is Dying
23 Rainclouds Lovend

HONDA HEDGE
1 Lady Harmzabellogram
2 Porcupine Wife
3 Afex Recording Studio
4 Sally Bradwell
5 Dove Returning
6 Waterfall
7 Bobbie's Song
8 The Black Door
9 Happy
10 Lovers Canyon
11 Silver Ship
12 Tickertytum
13 Old Mr Muncherman
14 Work In Time
15 Robotman
16 Truths
17 Lonely As Shxt
18 Honest Again
19 Tomorrow
20 Cold Mountain
21 Only Waiting
22 Boats
23 Primal Stream
24 Henry
25 Pete's Garlic Sausage