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In The Spanish Cave - 2018 Remastered Edition

by Thin White Rope

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Matthais
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Matthais Loved it so much when I was young - and it´s still one of my all-times-rock-favorites. Couldn´t get my hands on other albums of the band at the times, but realized today - 30 years later - that their entire catalogue is available on bandcamp. What a day! The mix of hard rock elements, even doom, and high quality melodies is outstanding on Spanish Cave. The songs are so wellcrafted and Kyser´s singing is so extraordinary. As old million eye said: "sui generis in so many ways"! Favorite track: Astronomy.
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Marcos Cerqueira Masterpiece, like pretty much all their discography. They are like my Beatles, all the way up there with Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, etc.
bebopdee
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bebopdee The song Red Sun is phenomenal! Love it!!!
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Part two of Frontier's Thin White Rope reissue project. This time, In The Spanish Cave and Sack Full of Silver are on offer. Each album has been remastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Both have two color options. The retail edition of In The Spanish Cave comes in "seafoam" blue marble (ed of 350), and the mail-order-only edition is on "coral" orange marble vinyl (ed of 150). Both come with LP insert/lyric sheet and download card.

    Includes unlimited streaming of In The Spanish Cave - 2018 Remastered Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Still digging the compact disc format? We've got you covered. Nothing special or limited here, just the CD version of the remastered In The Spanish Cave. Comes in sealed jewel case with booklet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of In The Spanish Cave - 2018 Remastered Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 11 Thin White Rope releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Ruby Sea - 2019 Remastered Edition, In The Spanish Cave - 2018 Remastered Edition, Sack Full of Silver - 2018 Remastered Edition, Moonhead - 2018 Remastered Edition, Exploring The Axis - 2018 Remastered Edition, Spoor, The One That Got Away, The Ruby Sea, and 3 more. , and , .

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1.
Mr. Limpet 03:53
In bed I hear cars and trains and think of swamps and oceans The diesel sounds of anchor chain and muddy stirrings of a love I could have known I choose to swim from the submerged car, leave my unconscious friends Avoid the grip and lazy turn by twisting through the water just like them Through fiber lips into the waves and through ports of a destroyer Where weightless men in steel caves dance with Eddy and his red haired sister Coral It takes me years to rise again and years to travel home I wish that you could travel too... tell me the story of a love I could have known
2.
Timing 03:25
Times there’s a time to make some changes Then there’s times that things should stay the same Times I can’t seem to tell the difference It’s easy to make that mistake Times there’s a question in my mind That never makes it to my face Times I believe that I’ll go blind For letting vision take your place In my dreams I walk a yellow land Looks like parts of movies I have seen Dream so hard I hurt you with my hand In my dream I fight a living being Times there’s a time to make some changes There’s times that things should stay the same Times when I can’t seem to tell the difference It’s easy to make that mistake
3.
It's OK 05:19
My old girlfriend made new friends, Got happy deep inside Wealth is felt in such strange ways, In passive genocide It was a genetic thing How she turned to you Outside forces run her dreams And nature’s choice come true One gene lets you buy your way One gene makes you sad One gene makes her shake and cling And that one I don’t have It was a genetic thing...
4.
Ahr-Skidar 01:37
To say a turkey will stand in the rain With his mouth open till he drowns in the sky Is like saying certain people will Take doses of pleasure till they die That’s what an alien would say (Oh, so you’re an alien.) No, that would be ridiculous (Oh, so you deny it now.) I have a receipt that says Texas And I kind of like the feel of cool water With no place left to go
5.
Red Sun 04:03
Well I hate to see the red red sun go down I hate to see the red red sun go down That’s when the hogbone man can lay his knuckle down I’ve become convinced that you’re the one Cause you never flinch under the gun Lovers kneel by the roadside in pools of broken glass Gator tails fly like black angels from the wheels as they pass
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7.
A round of loud birds, a round of scaly bends, A round like trench warfare and my brother’s back again Elsie crashed the party in a homemade leather dress My love and I built her a sled and dragged her to her rest All the cities on the edge of the land Where salty waves push sand under the door Are full of people who don’t understand Why we have chosen to stay out of the war These longings drive us to the edge of town Where old houses may stand or we may knock em down It isn’t malice, it’s not a game, And not even Elsie will leave as she came All the cities... We broke the law and left the porch light on The sun is brighter than a hydrogen bomb Thirsty and damaged I answer the door To Elsie my creation, my creature from the north All the cities...
8.
Ring 03:19
I know what it is to sell cold sentiments for cash They say what it is, it’s hard to give you more than that I wait for a little while by the countertop display With all the pretty things that take my breath away The windows start to ripple every early afternoon They burn until the evening but never are consumed Even in an hour of shadows escaping from the west I wish that I could turn the sunset into cash
9.
Astronomy 05:45
I woke riding on a falling moon Turns my heart and my pillow blue Traveled so long that you’re old and new Traveled so fast I lost my shadow One of these days will realize The darkest shadow falls from the clearest skies You’re so silent and your skin so cold That I jump up saying “Go shadow go” And you surface from a deep blue sleep I say I’m thirsty and I had a dream You say “There’s a glass of water on the floor So you don’t need to leave me anymore.” One of these nights I’ll sell my soul To sleep in something that doesn’t rock and roll I woke riding on a falling moon Turns my heart and pillow blue Tried to make peace between the new and old Tried so hard to lose my shadow One of these days will realize The darkest shadow falls from the clearest skies
10.
Wand 04:02
The whites of this wand are culled from a visit to the valley of the bones The black staff’s carved from tropic wood cut down in summer storms As hot and cold air rub together, make lightning in the sky So do these distillates of two dark lands conjoin to endow... Look through the air, do you see contrails gone from the sky? Yeah, and you see lovelight reflected from Ed Gein’s eye. Doctors and orderlies weep as new children are born, A rash of mistakes sweeps the nation’s maternity wards. Border guards everywhere turn and suck their guns Every leader is sterilized along with his firstborn son We can’t find the airwaves, they’ve disappeared into next week At last god is silent, he’s lost all his power to speak It might be the last of the changes you’d see, but I’ll make my mother a house on the hill that overlooks the sea Get off on this wand if you want, but let me tell you girl It’s about as effective as my dick for changing the world
11.
July 04:05
Last July I bought some opium incense, didn’t know that that was once your brand Wintertime I spark it to erase the scent of your sadistic man You healed your bruises with cigarettes And drove for hours wasted in the fog To be where other women wouldn’t call you things Where men wouldn’t sniff you out like dogs If only just that once you’d told me you don’t like men who treat you like dirt Who slip you drugs intended to seduce which travel deep and cause you hurt I wonder what would happen if You learned to speak of your contempt Instead you celebrate your face By lending it to each of them The redneck in me wants to prove, the college boy is scared to move The homemaker has quit his job, the nihilist has found a god A carpenter who takes an axe, a moth who burrows into wax A chain between you and the ape - the missing link was Joan the Saint I think you are the girl who sees a quarter inch through everything Sees bodies underneath their clothes, no faces, only peeled bone Your father was the artist who took pictures every day of you And made a stop-motion film that shows you turning into him I wonder how the Pharoah knew he had to save himself for you And when I go to take his place I praise the years that burned his face

about

Jozef Becker—drums
Roger Kunkel—guitar, vocals
Guy Kyser—vocals, guitar
John von Feldt—bass, vocals

credits

released September 14, 2018

PRODUCED BY Paul McKenna AND Thin White Rope
ENGINEERED BY Paul McKenna
ASSISTANT ENGINEER: Jeff Goodman
TRUMPETS ON ‘’Red Sun”: Mike Connelly, Dave Muller (APPEARING COURTESY OF SHEP’S FAITHFUL HEAD)
BACKING VOCAL ON “Astronomy”: Jan Potzmann
MASTERED BY John Golden, K-Disc
COVER ART BY Steve Blickenstaff
PHOTO BY Greg Allen
DESIGN: Wendy Sherman
MANAGEMENT: ML Compton/Pterodactyl

All songs published Swingin’ Danglers Music (BMI),
administrated by BMG Rights Management.

THANK YOU:
Zee, Jim, Angela, (EVERYONE AT THE BAND HOUSE).
Skip and the Danglers.

2018 REISSUE:
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Lisa Fancher
PROJECT PRODUCER: Julie Masi
REMASTERING: Paul du Gré

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