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Zuider Zee

Zeenith
LP Gold $18
LP Black $23
CD $12
LP Color $25
Digital Download $9.99

ONLINE COLOR WAX EDITION:
- Red/green/gold swirl
- Limited to 200 copies
- Limit two per customer

INDIE COLOR WAX EDITION:
- Gold LP
- Limited to 200 copies

  • All tracks previously unreleased
  • Re-mastered from the original tapes by John Baldwin
  • Compilation and liner notes by Alec Palao, in cooperation with band members Richard Orange and Gary Simon Bertrand
  • Booklet with unseen photos, deep notes and lyrics
  • The track “Nightlight” is a CD/Digital only track
  • “Old – Long Version” appears on the CD while “Old – Single Version” appears on the LP

Description

Available June 8th

An early/mid-1970s group that sound like a hybrid between T-Rex and Big Star, might sound like a band that should be universally adored but Memphis’ Zuider Zee have remained something of an untapped curiosity. Until now. With this first time release of the album Zeenith, recorded between 1972 and ’74 and featuring all previously unheard tracks, the band should no longer be a boxed-up mystery.

Prior to Zeenith, Zuider Zee’s 1975 self-titled LP was the only record out there that existed. Released on Columbia, it was hailed as a true great power pop record of the time by groups such as Cheap Trick. “Rick Nielsen called me one night,” Zuider Zee’s Richard Orange recalls. “He was asking about why weren’t we bigger and doing as well as they were. He said: “Man, you’re so damn good, do you know where I have your...

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Artist Bio

Childhood pals Richard Orange and Gary Simon Bertrand had matriculated in late ‘60s Lafayette pop-psych outfit, Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band, before joining forces with Kim Foreman and John Bonar. Zuider Zee’s tale wasn’t always destined to be that of a mysterious cult band but they did face some difficulties in from the off, as they found when they moved from Jackson, Mississippi to their new adopted home of Memphis. “When we first rolled into town, we were completely unknown,” says Orange. “We couldn’t get a gig at any of the clubs for what seemed like at least a year or even longer. We were very different from bands in the South. We never covered any Southern rock – apart from The Allman Brothers who we all thought the world of – and as we grew into ourselves we...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Haunter of the Darkness
    4:12
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  • 2 Lancelot's Theme
    3:35
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  • 3 Old (Long Version)
    4:46
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  • 4 Miami
    4:33
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  • 5 Lana
    3:38
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  • 6 Ackbar Didedar
    5:16
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  • 7 After the Shine's Gone
    4:36
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  • 8 Better Than All the Others
    3:35
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  • 9 Royal Command Performance
    3:43
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  • 10 Quite a While
    3:02
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  • 11 Nightlight
    4:43
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  • 12 Might Be I'm Losing My Mind
    3:46
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