Published: January 31st, 2010
Richard Norris never released a solo album but you may know him from two duos: with Erol Alkan as Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve or with Dave Ball as The Grid. Now it’s time for a self-reliant debut which is being advertised as a cosmic, psychedelia journey for your ears, eyes and mind.
The guy certainly knows a bit about these things because he worked as a teenager for the legendary UK psych label Bam Caruso, which released dozens of psychedelic and freakbeat compilations alongside artist albums from the Seeds, the Left Banke, the Walker Brothers, John's Children, July and many more.
This is the first time I've made an album pretty much on my own. Apart from two days laying down drums with ace beatnik drum-lord Wildcat Will and a couple of vocal sessions, this record was pieced together solo over many months in a room beneath a castle in Lewes, Sussex, England. It's a different dynamic making a record on your own, and allowed the record to grow in it's own particular way.
After years collecting, releasing, writing and thinking about psychedelic music, I've finally put my formative influences onto a set of tunes. I've been in love with psychedelia and freakbeat ever since I worked at the UK psych label Bam Caruso as a teenager, and I've really tried to mesh that influence with modern techniques to create something new. - says Richard.
The Time And Space Machine presents ‘The Time And Space Machine’ is released in March on Tirk.
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