Pip Proud - A Bird In The Engine LP 12-inches "We weren't trying to sound

"We weren't trying to sound like anyone

Distilled through his studies of African percussion in Ghana during 1970 and Balinese gamelan music

which took just over six weeks to complete

most confident point in their career

filtered noise

Pip Proud - A Bird In The Engine LP 12-inches "We weren't trying to soundIn the late '60s, Pip Proud recorded two of the oddest records ever to come out of Australia Adreneline & Richard and A Bird In The Engine before vanishing into obscurity for the better part of three decades. Often called the "Australian Syd Barrett," yet Proud actually released his second album in 1969, a year prior to The Madcap Laughs, and developed his indigenous psychedelia in virtual isolation. A Bird In The Engine is even more rare than his