Off: Grant Richter and F/i

[Chuck Rosenberg]

In a message dated 9/10/01 5:36:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
als at POSTMASTER.CO.UK writes:

> This F/i look like my kind of band, can anyone recommend any of their
>  music? CDs especially.
>
>  Alastair.

Absolutely. Creative, heavy, usually-instrumental Space-Rock, w/awesome synth
and guitar, a definite "go" for all HW fans, maybe the best pure Space-Rock
band of the last 2 decades. It's a good time to become interested in F/i, as
the Lexicon Devil label out of Australia has just begun to reissue their
early vinyl-only releases (extremely rare). Out so far are: Space Mantra ('88
LP) and Boy Dirt Car Split ('86 EP) on one disc. E-mail Doug Pearson
<jasret at mindspring.com> or Dave Lang <lexdev at yahoo.com.au> for info regarding
this release. Also Lex. Dev. has just reissued the first Voco Kesh album
("Ispepnaibara") along w/an EP from a split with F/i. VK is primarily the
space-rock project of Richard Franecki, who left F/i in '90. This first album
is excellent. Another excellent F/i CD "Helioscopium" can also be obtained
from Doug P. (I think there are some left?) as it was released on his Ceres
label in '97. These 2 F/i CD's will give you a good taste of '80s and '90s
F/i, the latter being much more polished production-wise. These two and an
excellent '80s retrospective CD released on RRRecords (their early label) are
all I have been able to obtain on CD, the latter being pretty rare...  They
also have excellent exclusive tracks on 3 CD's that I know of: Cleopatra's
"Space Box" 3-CD comp ("Boots of Ascension"), Mother West's "Turn Century
Turn" comp ("Space Station") and Submergence's 2-CD "Flourescent
Tunnelvision" comp ("Quantum Foam"). (All of which are recommended in
general.)

I'm sure Doug will be along soon to add much more, as I believe he has all
their releases and is a friend/associate.

Chuck

PS: Go to <Aural-Innovations.com>, and click the "bands in alphabetical
order" link to see some reviews and the band-link page to see their
home-page...