KING DARVES - The Sun Splits For .. The Blind Swimmer LP garage brass melodies

brass melodies

thick grooves and tribal psychedelia

This was done with Steve Carr at Hit and Run Studios in November '81 and never released (though there has been at least one bootleg made from a cassette of the original mix)

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place takes its shape not in the unexpected cacophony that had become the band's trademark

harmonica & synthesizer

KING DARVES - The Sun Splits For .. The Blind Swimmer LP garage brass melodiesSo i would imagine that you'd have one look at the photo of King Darves we have here and think "Oh brother! Another guy with a beard getting over what looks like a bad case of the clap and an acoustic guitar. Where's my axe?" so we're not gonna put it up here. (Mystique, dig?) But it's really not like that, i tell you! The bedrock of King Darves' New Brunswick based concoction is certainly folk based but there's no headband and he's not singing of