THE SPACE LADY – The Space Lady’s Other Hits – 1 LP – Clear Vinyl [RSD 2024]

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Available to buy in-storefrom 8am on Saturday, 20/04/2024 (Record Store Day).
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“Originally released as a bonus compact disc to the original The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits CD, “”Other Hits”” is a 6 track E.P. of music never released on vinyl. Culled from the same original 1990 recording sessions that were the source of the original “”Greatest Hits,”” which has gone on to multiple pressings and licenses.

First time on limited Clear vinyl, the tracks are amazingly remastered for release by Mikey Young.

The Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of Boston in the late 70s, then San Francisco ten years later, playing versions of contemporary pop music with an accordion and dressed flamboyantly. Following the theft and destruction of her accordion , The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, complete with a phase shifter, delay pedal and headset mic, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its leading exponents ever since.

The Space Ladys Other Hits were recorded as they were played on the street, live, one-take, with Schneider playing, singing and simultaneously manipulating the various effects. Beginning with Elvis Presleys iconic All Shook Up, the walking bassline underpinning the vocal, phasing in and out of this dimension, providing a fragile, extraterrestrial shadow to Presleys original lust-driven performance.

Slapback Boomerang is an original composition, written by Schneiders then-husband Joel Dunsany a Rock n Roll pounder that could have been performed by The Cramps, its tale of relationship turmoil changed into a meditation on the nature of echo and feedback. There are moments where Schneider performs vocal caesuras, swimming in delay and phase for the pleasure of it, a pantomime drama performance that rings out.

Closing Side B, Puttin On The Ritz is Irving Berlins 20s smash hit manipulated into a sombre ballad with its latent class struggle narrative brought to the fore.

A staple of The Space Ladys performances to this day, Golden Earrings 70s global hit Radar Love retains something of the originals driving gallop but in The Space Ladys telling it is shorn of the tight-trousered, taut machismo. The Space Lady coos and reaches up into the heavens away from the road, the phaser waves drenching the composition with transcendence. Schneiders falsetto performances in the choruses do nothing but lift the spirits ever-arching upwards.

Next, The Space Lady emasculated Jim Morrisons performance in The Doors 20th Century Fox. Faithfully playing Ray Manzareks keyboard parts on her Casio, Schneider disintegrates Morrisons lust into waves of echo and delay, creating a Dubbed out version of the song, sounding eroded and decayed in all its ghostly glory. Pioneering Rock n Roll outfit Pete & The Pirates 1960 hot Shakin All Over, something of a response to Elvis All Shook Up, is blown out in warm fuzz and the celestial hug of The Space Ladys spirit.”

Track List:

1. All Shook Up
2. Slapback Boomerang
3. Puttin’ On The Ritz
4. Radar Love
5.20th Century Fox
6. Shakin’ All Over

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