{"id":2407,"date":"2018-12-12T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2018-12-13T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T11:58:03","slug":"mandrake-paddle-steamer-pandemonium-shadow-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":"Mandrake Paddle Steamer &#8216;Pandemonium Shadow Show&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Previously unreleased recordings, 1968-70, by British quintessential psychedelic \/progressive band MANDRAKE PADDLE STEAMER \/ MANDRAKE, culled from the band\u2019s archive of reel tapes and acetates. <\/strong><br><strong>Released on Sommor, premiered on Shindig!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2418\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?attachment_id=2418\" class=\"wp-image-2418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52.png 850w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52-100x60.png 100w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52-200x121.png 200w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52-450x272.png 450w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52-600x362.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Pure&nbsp;late 60s UK psychedelic sound&nbsp;with&nbsp;early prog moves, plenty of Hammond and fuzzed out guitar, powerful vocals&#8230;Including such lost gems as the Barrett-Floyd sounding &#8216;The World Whistles By&#8217;, killer psych-rockers like &#8216;Pandemonium Shadow Show&#8217; or &#8216;Doris The Piper&#8217;, the mellotron fuelled &#8216;October Country&#8217; and more!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike other \u201960s British bands who changed their music to &#8220;psychedelic&#8221; or &#8220;progressive&#8221; with the time, MPS were born &#8220;progressive&#8221; from day one. Formed in 1967 in Walthamstow (London) by a core of art school students, their members were Brian Engel, Martin Briley, Paula Riordan, Martin Hooker and Barry Nightingale (later replaced by David Potts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During their short lifespan (\u201967-70), MPS supported big names like Pink Floyd, The Nice or Vanilla Fudge. They played at The Isle Of Wight Festival, had a residence at the Star Club in Germany and ran their own club night (Asgard).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signed to the Parlophone label (though the band was aiming to be part of the more progressive Harvest imprint) they released in \u201969 the &#8216;Strange Walking Man&#8217; 45, recorded at Abbey Road and now widely considered a lost British psychedelic classic (check <em>Rubbles<\/em>, <em>Perfumed Garden<\/em>, etc). Due to lack of promotion and interest from their record label, the 45 went nowhere. After some line-up changes and shortening their name to just Mandrake, the band definitively split in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pandemonium Shadow Show <\/em>collects studio recordings registered by Mandrake Paddle Steamer \/ Mandrake during \u201968-70 at various London studios such as Regent, Orange and other unknown locations. Some of these tracks had been previously included on several bootleg albums with inferior sound quality \/ wrong titles and others have remained unreleased until now.&nbsp;Pre-order&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guerssen.com\/catalogue.php?lang=en&amp;ide=33229&amp;preO=true\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tracklist: 1. Pandemonium Shadow Show &#8211; 2. Solitair Husk &#8211; 3. Stella Mermaid &#8211; 4. The World Whistles By &#8211; 5. Upminster Windows &#8211; 6. Doris The Piper &#8211; 7. The Doorway To January &#8211; 8. Simple Song &#8211; 9. The October Country<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MANDRAKE PADDLE STEAMER - &quot;Pandemonium Shadow Show&quot; LP \/ CD \/ Digital (Sommor)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f_NawGmWR5w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F2407&#038;t=Mandrake%20Paddle%20Steamer%20%E2%80%98Pandemonium%20Shadow%20Show%E2%80%99&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F2407&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F12%2FScreenshot-2018-12-12-at-20.55.52.png&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Mandrake%20Paddle%20Steamer%20%E2%80%98Pandemonium%20Shadow%20Show%E2%80%99\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F2407&#038;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Mandrake%20Paddle%20Steamer%20%E2%80%98Pandemonium%20Shadow%20Show%E2%80%99&#038;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F2407\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously unreleased recordings, 1968-70, by British quintessential psychedelic \/progressive band MANDRAKE PADDLE STEAMER \/ MANDRAKE, culled from the band\u2019s archive of reel tapes and acetates. Released on Sommor, premiered on Shindig! Pure&nbsp;late 60s UK psychedelic sound&nbsp;with&nbsp;early prog moves, plenty of Hammond and fuzzed out guitar, powerful vocals&#8230;Including such lost gems as the Barrett-Floyd sounding &#8216;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}