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album cover FINN, SIMON Pass The Distance (Durtro) cd 14.98
Back in 2003 when Current 93 played in San Francisco, David Tibet came into Aquarius, having previously arranged to use Andee's practice space in preparation for C93's gigs. Inevitably, I (Jim) got to talking with Tibet about music and so forth. In the course of our conversation, Tibet happenend to mention that if I liked the demented folk wanderings of Comus, then I should attempt to track down a copy of Simon Finn's Pass The Distance. Almost all of C93's references to the esoterica of folk music have been right-on (e.g. Shirley Collins, Incredible String Band, Comus, etc.), so when Tibet utters praise for something, it's worth listening in. The quest to find this record did not look good, considering that there were legal problems surrounding this record back in 1970 that resulted in very poor distribution of the original vinyl. Even if I did manage to come across it, would I really want to cough up a couple hundred bucks for something I've never heard?
Fortunately, Tibet solved that problem for me by re-issuing this exceptional piece of oblique folk through his Durtro imprint. Anyone who has been enamored of the current string of avant-folk wanderings of Devendra Banhart, Jewelled Antler, Jandek, and Fursaxa would be advised not to miss this record. Yeah, it's as good as Tibet made it out to be. It appears that Finn was an individual who was probably swept up in the Jesus Movement of the late '60s which took an antinomian, free-spirited approach to Christian scripture. The lyrics to Pass The Distance, Finn's first and only record, are splattered with loosely Christian imagery and apocalyptic doomspeak, which are the obvious appeals for Tibet and his polyglot of Christian gnosticism. His songwriting is a primitive concoction of psychedelic free strum and Wicker Man-ish pagan folk; but the delivery is Finn's strength. On certain songs, Finn wanders through his lyrics with a bizarre lack of melody as if he's enjoying a handful of mushrooms at the time; yet at others, he bares his teeth with an incendiary emotional ferocity which uncannily resembles Devendra Banhart's possessed yelps on his first album. Altogether, Pass The Distance emerges as a true gem and easily ranks as one of the best reissues of 2004.
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