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Ghost Riders

by Various Artists

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Lars Gotrich
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Lars Gotrich Bedroom dreams of young North Americans in the glittering glow of early rock and roll. It's the spiritual follow-up to Sky Girl and, like that incredible comp, follows an emotional narrative rather than a chronological one. www.vikingschoice.org/archive/vikings-choice-2022-reissues-renewals-of-spirit/ Favorite track: Brigitta.
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ironicmoustache Glorious, poignant selection of teenage garage nobodies. Amazing music made even more affecting by the realisation that this is the sound of high-school kids trying to strike rock and roll gold and live a different life than what the world (and society) had in store for them... and not quite getting there.

Impossible to pick a favourite song, but Dennis Harte's subtly shambolic, slightly awkward, and totally endearing ode to summer love (and associated heartbreak) has to be up there. Favorite track: Summer's Over.
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1.
The Mod 4 - A Puppet 02:29
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2.
The Yardleys - Just Remember 03:32
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3.
Decompressed Impossibility - You Can't Ride Away 02:14
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4.
The Living End - Brigitta 02:50
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5.
The Newports - Feelin' Low 03:37
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6.
The Landlords - I'm Through with You 03:03
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7.
The Prisners Dream - Autumn Days 03:01
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8.
The Fortels - She 02:59
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9.
The Bohemians - Say It 02:35
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10.
Tresa Leigh - Until Then 02:37
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11.
Wm Penn & The Quakers - Ghost of the Monks 02:41
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12.
The Tempters - I Will Go 04:18
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13.
Jerry McGee - Twilight Zone 03:40
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14.
Carroll - The Boy Called Billy Joe 04:47
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15.
The Common People - Here, There & Everywhere 02:51
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16.
Dennis Harte - Summer's Over 03:20
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17.
Toe Head - Goodnight Jackie 02:40
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about

A North American road trip of coming of age garage soul mapped by Ivan Liechti, Ghost Riders is Efficient Space’s latest narrative compilation, hovering in a liminal emotional ravine between moonlight melancholy, teenage heartache and unchecked, unrealised ambition. Across 17 open hearted ballads recorded 1965-1974, the 2LP collects and connects dots between British Invasion fanatics, child prodigies, the loners and the luckless, in a kind of trans-continental survey of those swept up in rock’n’roll mania and buoyed by local newspaper ads promising fame and gold records.

From the tangerine dreams of 8th grade all-girl combo The Mod 4 to the tri-state jukebox aspiring echoes of The Tempters, The Yardleys' poetic Farfisa vamp and lilting folk pop, and The Landlords’ weepy break up b-side blues, these are mostly one shots by dreamers whose experience was brief before being checked back to the reality of suburban normality and realistic career options. Hailing from the regional backwaters of Illinois, Arkansas, Nevada, Massachusetts, Ohio, Idaho, Texas and beyond, the licensed artists were scouted by way of local fire departments, spiritualist fellowships and animal welfare centres, often barely a stones throw from where their contributions were originally laid.

A barely teenage Dennis Harte's ‘Summer’s Over’ perhaps best taps the collection’s essence. A gut-wrenching lament of the passing of the season as if it was the last on earth. Flanked by players from The Left Banke, Harte, a now-piano tuner to the stars, is from the minor segment that found longevity in showbiz. Likewise with Michigan icon Lyn Nowicki who cast her ghostly voice over Beatles cover song chameleons The Common People and Jerry McGee, The Ventures member and conduit of Dr. John’s ‘Twilight Zone’.

Ghost Riders simmers with the scent of youthful summers, the pang of schoolyard romance, and the excitement (and disenchantment) of teenage naïveté, delivered via a deceptively simple and frequently wonky garage band set up. The vision of record collector and graphic designer Ivan Liechti, these eternal psych-folk howlers are further crystallised by Colin Young’s fastidious audio restoration, the original artwork of Elise Gagnebin-de Bons and an aptly penned foreword from Sonic Boom.

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released October 14, 2022

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