This Reviewer is a very recent newcomer to Jonathan Dennison's Cadabra Records, so it was with some hesitation that I prepared to listen to this record; however I may now advise you to turn the lights down low, as the last glowing embers of the sun set across the crumbling skylines of once great metropolises, and beneath the wormwood dales of ancient eldritch countryside. Place the stylus on your copy of 'The Yellow Sign' long player by Robert W. Chambers and prepare for the creeping horror cottoned therein. Narrated by Anthony D. P. Mann with incidental music by progressive rock and horror aficionado, Goblin keyboardist, Maurizio Guarini.
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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix
Side one - 'Phase In' starts with the track 'Love Without Sound' (2'55") written by Delia Derbyshire and David Vorhaus, after a burst of dreamy vocals what sounds intermittently like toads singing and crickets chirping to the accompaniment of a heavy heart beat
Side A - 'Dunroamin'' begins with a bus conductors ringing of the bell and the vehicle pulling away. A beautiful intro with piano like synth lines and what sounds like vibraphone before breaking into a vocal magically invoking a journey with some warm fiddle playing.
Side one starts with the eponymous 'Ignition of the Sun' modulating and phasing in and out until what sounds like a generator warming up comes into full force, the eerie sound of great distances travelled...
