ARTiST: Purple Knight
TiTLE: Keltie Sessions
LABEL: Pawp Shop
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 19:23 min
SiZE: 27,9 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Oct-10-2006
RELEASE DATE: Oct-10-2006
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. The Arrival 01:44
02. Free Spirit 01:17
03. Brinah 04:08
04. Prislips 07:45
05. Kanny 01:37
06. There's Magic In Those Hills 02:52
Release Notes:
"In 1973, Deep Purple became my new favorite band and
I got a set of drums. That summer, Raynald Leger
and I had a little jam. In the fall I discovered
that Deep Purple had a song called Black Night that
I had yet to hear. Imagining that song and wanting
to form a band and receiving a Knight toy from my
parents led to thinking up Purple Knight for a name.
Originally Bobby Vautour was to be the guitarist,
but after one jam I realized it wouldn't work. So
in the summer of 1974 when Raynald and I started
playing music again I instantly realized that this
was real Purple Knight. That first day we wrote and
recorded several songs like Crocodile In The Swamp \
Louie At The Store \ Foot In The Shit \ Oh My God \
Pus etc. The next day four of these songs were
recorded (with Crocodile In The Swamp being renamed
to Crocodile In The Pants for one especially wild
version). More songs like Purple Knight \ Drum Solo
and Purple Ocean Of Hate were done and our first
album "Vol. 1" was completed.
Two more albums were completed that summer (Knight
Of Black Waters and Record #3) and our first of two
scary show concerts held at the Black House. Also a
film document was done by my grandmother Anna. Two
more albums were completed in the autumn of 1974
(Purple Knight and Just Begun To Fight). After the
cancellation of a scheduled concert at the R.B.
Arena, a "doctored" live album was completed in
January 1975 (Live At The Garage Coliseum).
Unexpectedly Raynald quit Purple Knight in February.
This led to the formation of Purple Knight Mark II
(April 1975 - May 1976). In the summer of 1976 the
original Purple Knight reformed for a one off
recording session. Purple Knight was dorment again.
Ten years later in July 1986 reformation sessions
began again and in 1989 with our first concert in 15
years, Purple Knight officially reformed. Subpop
released a 7" vinyl of ours "Crocodile In The Swamp"
in early 1996 which received much acclaim."
In 1996 tracks were recorded for was what to be the
band's first official full-length album entitled
"Maple Street". Due to the poor sound quality the
band shelved the album and instead decided to
re-record the best tracks of the album in a digital
format in a much more professional independent
recording session. These higher quality recordings
were in retrospect shelved due to the agreement by
Purple Knight that the recording quality was too
clear sounding and the band prefered to stick with a
much more Lo-Fi sounding recording, which ultimately
led to the subsequent release of the original
recording (all recorded to 4" cassette tape) "Purple
Knight - Maple Street" via Venison Creek Recordings
in 2003, (which was released by BUTT).
This release is the "higher quality" re-recordings
that were shelved due to the fact the band felt they
were too clear sounding for the Lo-Fi Indie sound
they wanted to present. Dubbed the Keltie Sessions
due to the fact they were recorded by the great
Keltie Harding, never before available to the public
until now - hitting indie record stores Tues Oct
11/06!
PURPLE KNIGHT IS :
Raynald Leger : Guitar, Drums, Vocals, Bass
Mark Gaudet : Drums, Vocals, Bass, Guitar,
Percussive Instruments, Toys etc.