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Vinyl L.P - Harvest Records - SHVL 779.
1970 - U.K.
Cover design, photos (A. Powell/S. Thorgerson): HIPGNOSIS.
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Back cover
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Inner gatefold
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Labels
Panama Limited
Denis Parker - Vocals, guitar, banjo.
Anne Matthews - Vocals, harpsichord, percussion.
Brian Strachan - Guitar, mandolin.
Dave Griffiths - Bass, double bass, violin, keyboards.
Gary Compton - Harmonica.
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1 Comments
ReplyDeleteBy Roger Trenwith.
Panama Limited, having dropped the “Jug Band” from their name, and having seemingly psychedelicised themselves while listening to Captain Beefheart, no doubt taking a tip from label mates The Edgar Broughton Band in the process, are an entirely different proposition on their sophomore and last album Indian Summer.
Firstly all but three of the songs are written by Denis Parker, who was definitely under the good Captain’s spell, even down to adopting a sub-Beefheartian growl. Of the three remaining songs, Future and Darkness Brings are penned by Dave Griffiths, and Laughing by Anne Matthews, and all three are at the end of the album, almost as if Denis didn’t want his thematic muse disturbed.
The story gets weird when it is revealed in the liner notes that Denis left the band during the recording sessions for the album, and headed back home to Canada, which must have been the fatal blow that ended the band, one assumes?
Released a year after their debut the band have become steeped in the hippy culture of the era and picked up electric instruments.