I am proud to announce the highly anticipated next release on Dark Entries :
DE-006 Dark Day – Window LP
Following the first few incarnations and various lineups of r.l. crutchfield’s Dark Day, 1981 saw the direction of the project morphed into an electronic keyboard duo of Robin Crutchfield and Bill Sack with an album of nine songs released on Plexus Records. Lyrics were inspired by various sources including occult texts by Colin Wilson and art by Leger, Bruegel, Malevich, Man Ray, Duchamp and Jean Cocteau. The mechanized sound of “Window” is less one of the man machine robots in charge of Kraftwerk than man at the mercy of his machines. The infectiously-engaging toy-like instruments captured the ears of fans worldwide with popcorn drum rhythms. A Synare borrowed from Jeff and Jane Hudson lent a “Bette Davis Eyes” homage and crack to the percussion on the percolating tracks.
The instant polaroid images, an homage to Japanese recording artist Susan of “The Girl Can’t Help It,” adorned the album sleeve in two stark headshots of musicians at work, haunted by the unseen. The front cover, a Crutchfield-designed collage in two tones of salmon flesh and Mediterranean watery blue show a string of rickety children in diaper togs, forced much like the children of “Cat In The Hat” to spend a dreary day indoors. The look on the children’s faces asks you to determine whether they are needing to be rescued from their enclosure, or inviting you to join and play. Is the window something you look out, or in? You must answer that question.
Carefully remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. This re-issue also includes a 24-page newsprint zine “Darker Days As I Recall Them” by Robin Crutchfield with silk screened cardstock jackets and an 8×11 lyrics sheet with song meanings!
Sound samples HERE
Tracklisting:
A1 Window
A2 Don’t Bother
A3 The Metal Benders
A4 Mr. Potatohead
B1 Nudes In The Forest
B2 Sleep
B3 Danger/Dancer
B4 Eternal Return
B5 Second Warning
$20.00
If you are interested in a wholesale quantity (5+ of one title), send me an email (darkentries[at]darkentries.com) requesting exact quantity and shipping location.
Please keep your eyes on the webshop for HIGHLY LIMITED silk-screened Dark Day t-shirts. These tees are 100% prima cotton - that is the highest quality, super softest cotton in the world! All are unisex style t-shirts with crew necks and suble ‘distressed’ edging for the perfect vintage feel and look. These tees come in specially dyed colors: Sea of Cortez, Bougainvillea, Warm Slate Grey, and BLACK! Sizes are: Women’s S,M,L and Men’s S,M,L. I will only have two colors in each size!
The next few Dark Entries Records releases are in the works!!
DE-005 Those Attractive Magnets - ElectroMagnetic Pulse (July 2010)
DE-007 Neon Judgement - Early Tapes (August 2010)
DE-008 Various Artists - BART (Bay Area Retrograde)
