“Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a box set, and for my sins, Cardinal Fuzz gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice collection, and when it was over, I wanted another one”…

Please forgive my paraphrasing of this classic line, but what can you do when you have a game-changing release to contend with?!?  Such has been my absolute immersion in all things The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol, that though my soul tells me my initial contact, “seems a thousand centuries ago”, cold hard logic suggests it was actually with the release of the 2nd press of ‘Pathfinder’, around the tail end of 2014. All thanks to the Cardinal himself, Dave Cambridge.

To celebrate the official release of The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol‘s, ‘Symbol Box’ – triple album set on Cardinal Fuzz, here again is episode 11 of ‘chromaticism‘s revolutions on the radio’, featuring an in depth interview with TBWNIAS’s drummer, John Westhaver…

‘Masters of the Mole Hill‘ is the 9th LP by TBWNIAS – The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol, perhaps Cana-duh’s best kept secret.

Last year’s ‘Pathfinder’ opus, introduced to the baying UK pack by Cardinal Fuzz, rightly left the uninitiated salivating for more – ‘Masters of the Mole Hill’ consummates that fevered tryst.

A crash course in all that is Quicksails with a few words from the man himself;

“Quicksails is the moniker of Ben Billington’s densely layered solo electronic music. Influenced by the Kosmische school of krautrock and the organ works of minimalists Terry Riley and J.D. Emmanuel, Billington conjures abstract synth-scapes, hypnotic loops and textured atmospheres punctuated by rhythmic pulses. His background in free jazz and world percussion also lends a heavy hand to create a truly unique project that sets itself apart from the vast synthesizer music underground of today. Billington’s debut vinyl offering Silver Balloons In Clusters (2012) was released through Under the Spire Records. The album Mayville Dream (2013) was released by Spectrum Spools, the label curated by John Elliott (of Emeralds) as an off-shoot of Peter Rehberg’s Editions Mego. His solo music has also been released through Deception Island, Digitalis Limited, Discriminate Music, and NNA Tapes”.

This weekend sees Cardinal Fuzz in full flight with their Sonic Attack at Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia on Saturday 26th of September.

4 parts of the enviable Cardinal Fuzz roster, in the shape of elemental forces of nature – The Heads, Cult Of Dom Keller, Kandodo 3 and Dead Sea Apes will grace the Camp Stage from 18:45 onwards…