Licorice Root Orchestra

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
To this very day it remains the most favorite of all Shimmy Discs by many writer's and friend's, and even a few musicians. A cross between the Plastic Ono Band and old Pink Floyd, this mellotron-laden CD will transport you to a very starnge place.

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Licorice Root Orchestra
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • hands drown best
  • masterpiece
  • Bolan clone
  • hellionized at midnight- an evening with raymond listen
 Licorice Root Orchestra
Raymond Listen
Manufacturer: Shimmy Disc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000010NE
Release Date: 1994-04-04

Tracks:

  1. September In The Night
  2. Cloud Symphonies
  3. Saturn Rise
  4. Lemon Peel Medallion
  5. Tangled Weeks
  6. Ocean's Long Floor/Spell On This Room
  7. Sunday Theme Of Petals
  8. Coronation day
  9. Let Darkness fall
  10. Everyday Supernatural
  11. Garden Of Chalcedony
  12. Blacked-Eyed Susans
  13. Firmament

Album Description

To this very day it remains the most favorite of all Shimmy Discs by many writer's and friend's, and even a few musicians. A cross between the Plastic Ono Band and old Pink Floyd, this mellotron-laden CD will transport you to a very starnge place.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars hands drown best.......2004-12-30

I seem to remember seeing these guys play many years ago; about 18 people in the band. There were wires attaching each of them together in a series. Thought they were earphones, but the wires connected their minds. All 18 named Raymond. If you can lay hands on any of their earlier stuff, do it! Under name Licorice Root Orchestra they egged one on Mood Food, which was al-right as well.

5 out of 5 stars masterpiece.......2004-01-28

This record is one of the best records I have heard in my life. It's enjoyable to listen to while you are or are not doing anything at all. I won't name a track in particular because the record is a classic in its entirety.

2 out of 5 stars Bolan clone.......2004-01-13

It's pleasant enough to listen to but is a T-Rex/Marc Bolan rip-off. I have a hard time listening to any band that claims someone elses ideas and feelings as their own. Why not just listen to some early t-rex? It's alot better, it's original, and it isn't simply someone stealing another persons ideas and style. Anyway most of the songs sound kind of the same. If these guys ever do do anything original they actually might be worth a listen.

5 out of 5 stars hellionized at midnight- an evening with raymond listen.......2000-07-26

Nearly screeching like a shattered saturn spectator upon the shrill lawn of evening, Raymond Listen embeacons the bleakery with pop scenery emblazoned by baroquedelic flashes and untameably unnameable melodramatically melodic splashes.
Licorice Root Orchestra
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Licorice Root Orchestra
    Licorice Roots
    Manufacturer: S.a. Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    Lo-FiLo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    Neo-PsychedeliaNeo-Psychedelia | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
    Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000CNE11Y
    Release Date: 2006-01-10

    Tracks:

    1. September In The Night
    2. Symphonies
    3. Saturn Rise
    4. Lemon Peel Medallion
    5. Tangled Weeks
    6. Ocean's Long Floor/Spell On This Room
    7. Sunday Theme Of Petals
    8. Coronation Day
    9. Let Darkness Fall
    10. Everyday Supernatural
    11. Garden Of Chalcedony
    12. Black-Eyed Susans
    13. Firament
    14. Bonus Track: Cloud Symphonies
    15. Bonus Track: Spell On This Room / September In The Night
    16. Bonus Track: Coronation Day
    17. Bonus Track: Tangled Weeks
    18. Bonus Track: Everyday Supernatural
    19. Bonus Track: Nether Reaches
    20. Bonus Track: Ocean's Long Floor
    21. Bonus Track: Black-Eyed Susans
    22. Bonus Track: Let Darkness Fall
    23. Bonus Track: Black-Eyed Susans
    24. Bonus Track: Garden Of Chalcedony
    25. Bonus Track: Nether Reaches (Piano Version)
    26. Bonus Track: Firmament

    Album Description

    "Songs with a gentle near-orchestral eloquence which falls somewhere between Daniel Johnston's trembling 1990 and Harold Budd's soulful Music for Three Pianos...Licorice Root Orchestra is a delicate work of weird genius; violet-tinted, sherbet-sweet and lonely as Coney Island on a wet Sunday.." - MELODY MAKER

    "Syrup-sweet flute and piano ditties offer simple, magical childlike tones." - NME

    "Released in 1993, Licorice Roots Orchestra is knee-deep in reverb and drenched in magical, phantasmagorical imagery; a creepy, beautiful thing that has inspired devotion among its cult." - SNOWGLOBE

    Yes, this album is from the past - and not just because it was recorded in the `90s; this goes much deeper then that. Licorice Root Orchestra by The Licorice Roots is an audio time capsule. Calling out from a numinous tunnel somewhere in the `60s, the group often draws comparisons to T-Rex or Syd Barret. But The Licorice Roots draw more influence from Fra Filippo Lippi or H.P. Lovecraft then from obvious musical sources. Edward Moyse, the spiritual leader of The Licorice Roots, conjures a kind of runic chamber pop where ghostly piano and mystical lyrics ride together on an old carousal in a haunted amusement park. The Licorice Roots are truly magical, a kind of "everyday supernatural." The 10-year anniversary re-release of The Licorice Roots' first album includes the original 13 studio tracks as well as 13 additional demos. Originally featured in Melody Maker, Pop Culture Press, Exclaim, Time Out NY, NME, Ptolemaic Terrascope, Salt for Slugs, CMJ - and Sassy's "Cute Band Alert - fans and newcomers alike will enjoy this re-introduction to an amazing band. The Licorice Roots continue to work their magic and will be releasing new material on Essay Records later this year!
    Licorice Root Orchestra
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • hands drown best
    • masterpiece
    • Bolan clone
    • hellionized at midnight- an evening with raymond listen
    		 Licorice Root Orchestra
    Raymond Listen
    Manufacturer: Shimmy Disc
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Pop | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    ASIN: B00002DFAB
    Release Date: 1999-11-15

    Tracks:

    1. September in the Night
    2. Cloud Symphonies
    3. Saturn Rise
    4. Lemon Peel Medallion
    5. Tangle Weeks
    6. Ocean's Long Floor/Spell on This Room
    7. Sunday Theme of Petasl
    8. Coronation Day
    9. Let Darkness Fall
    10. Everyday Supernatural
    11. Garden of Chalcedony
    12. Black Eyed Susan
    13. Firmament

    Album Description

    To this very day it remains the most favorite of all Shimmy Discs by many writer's and friend's, and even a few musicians. A cross between the Plastic Ono Band and old Pink Floyd, this mellotron-laden CD will transport you to a very starnge place.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars hands drown best.......2004-12-30

    I seem to remember seeing these guys play many years ago; about 18 people in the band. There were wires attaching each of them together in a series. Thought they were earphones, but the wires connected their minds. All 18 named Raymond. If you can lay hands on any of their earlier stuff, do it! Under name Licorice Root Orchestra they egged one on Mood Food, which was al-right as well.

    5 out of 5 stars masterpiece.......2004-01-28

    This record is one of the best records I have heard in my life. It's enjoyable to listen to while you are or are not doing anything at all. I won't name a track in particular because the record is a classic in its entirety.

    2 out of 5 stars Bolan clone.......2004-01-13

    It's pleasant enough to listen to but is a T-Rex/Marc Bolan rip-off. I have a hard time listening to any band that claims someone elses ideas and feelings as their own. Why not just listen to some early t-rex? It's alot better, it's original, and it isn't simply someone stealing another persons ideas and style. Anyway most of the songs sound kind of the same. If these guys ever do do anything original they actually might be worth a listen.

    5 out of 5 stars hellionized at midnight- an evening with raymond listen.......2000-07-26

    Nearly screeching like a shattered saturn spectator upon the shrill lawn of evening, Raymond Listen embeacons the bleakery with pop scenery emblazoned by baroquedelic flashes and untameably unnameable melodramatically melodic splashes.

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    8. One [Explicit Lyrics]
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    10. Original Gold

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