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Mushroom - The Valium Sessions (1996)

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    as Mushroom was starting up, drummer/bandleader Pat Thomas released a solo album in Germany in 1997 titled "Valium" - 2/3rds of that album was singer/songwriter material, however 1/3rd were the very first recordings of Mushroom in 1996 - before Mushroom had released their own albums. Never available digitally before and never released outside of Germany (was only on CD there) - here are all the early Mushroom recordings from "Valium" - to add to the confusion, there were two different versions of "Valium" released - known as "this CD" and "that CD" - and even more confusing - is that despite sharing the same exact same song titles - these Mushroom songs (note the V1 and V2) were NOT different versions of the same song - but totally different songs! That's the complex beauty of playing instrumental music - cause we had no lyrics! this is the same era of Mushroom as their "Reeperbahn" 12-inch ... more
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Valium (V1) 08:12
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Valium (V2) 07:04
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as Mushroom was starting up, drummer/bandleader Pat Thomas released a solo album in Germany in 1997 titled "Valium" - 2/3rds of that album was singer/songwriter material, however 1/3rd were the very first recordings of Mushroom in 1996 - before Mushroom had released their own albums. Never available digitally before and never released outside of Germany (was only on CD there) - here are all the early Mushroom recordings from "Valium" - to add to the confusion, there were two different versions of "Valium" released - known as "this CD" and "that CD" - and even more confusing - is that despite sharing the same exact same song titles - these Mushroom songs (note the V1 and V2) were NOT different versions of the same song - but totally different songs! That's the complex beauty of playing instrumental music - cause we had no lyrics! this is the same era of Mushroom as their "Reeperbahn" 12-inch

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released September 20, 2022

Pat Thomas - drums/bandleader
Erik Pearson - snake guitar
Graham Connah - keyboards & textures 
Alec Palao - 4 & 6 string bass
Tim Plowman - slovenly guitar
Katharine Starzel - wind
some songs - remove Plowman and replace with 
Alex Candelaria - jazz guitar 
some songs - remove Palao and replace with 
Kurt Statham - electric bass

Mixed by Pat Thomas & Quintus Kannegiesser 
Recorded by Rick Wilson or Kyle Statham 
at Black Eyed Pig Studios, San Francisco 1996
all songs written & arranged by Mushroom
hand-lettering by Beth Brown of Absolute Grey

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Mushroom San Francisco, California

Since 1997, Mushroom (from San Francisco) has performed their own 1970’s inspired psychedelic instrumental grooves – plus collaborations with Krautrock legends Faust, Soft Machine’s Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen of Gong, Bundy K. Brown of Tortoise, and jazz trumpeter Eddie Gale (Blue Note in 1960s). New members are David Immerglück & Victor Krummenacher (from Monks of Doom, Camper Van Beethoven). ... more

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