Name: Wandering Stranger
Brand: Entrance

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Default:19

Supplier EU

The Orchard/SPV (Membran)

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Limited edition

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Extended format: No

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Signed copies: No

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Download code: No

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Bonus disc: No

Release date

2005-08-03

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Catalogue number

FP10172

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767981101729

Artist

Entrance

Label EU

Fat Possum

Genre EU

R&B / Neo-Soul

Fat Possum Records is a label that was established in 1991 with the sole purpose of recording R.L. Burnside. Over time, it evolved into a mission to discover and record the last remaining original bluesmen before they passed away. Despite facing various challenges such as difficult personalities, limited songs, and a raw sound that didn't fit the mainstream blues market, these artists possessed immense talent and truly lived the blues.

In recent years, Fat Possum has expanded its catalog to include newer indie blues rock bands alongside their traditional offerings.

Newest Listed Items

Entrance Records and Tapes is pleased to present the resurrection of Prayer of Death which has been out of print and off the grid since 2016. Released in 2006, the spiritual rock opera moved Pitchfork to hail Entrance (aka Guy Blakeslee) as “a psychedelic shaman bringing us news from other planes of existence.” Recorded on tape in Chicago in the winter of 2005 by David Vandervelde as the followup to 2004’s mostly acoustic acid-tinged country blues saga Wandering Stranger (Fat Possum), the self-produced and privately pressed “Prayer of Death” saw Blakeslee expanding his sound with heavy doses of electricity and eastern psychedelia, and drawing from influences as diverse as Charley Patton, Sandy Bull, the Stooges, Sufi poetry and the Tibetan Book of the Dead . Blakeslee’s in-studio alchemy with Paz Lenchantin (Pixies/A Perfect Circle/Zwan) and drummer Derek James would lead to the formation of The Entrance Band. The rebirth of this underground cult classic , originally inspired by “the daily Death Vibrations of the Modern World,” could not come at a more appropriate time, given the state of our civilization. For Blakeslee, death is the ultimate psychedelic, erasing the mind completely instead of expanding it-- and by the closing track, he has made some sort of peace with the idea, which makes the album sound like a journey instead of a tract. His final words are "When you think about death every morning, don't you ever be afraid!" If only it were that easy.

Wandering Stranger

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