Having countryman John Cale label your first-ever commercial release “his favourite album ever” is about as good a start as a Welsh rock band could hope for. And after several subsequent, critically-acclaimed albums on the Ankst label, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci caught the attention of a major label (Fontana) and released this 1997 psych-folk masterpiece. Two singles resulted, both charting: the gently rocking “Diamond Dew” and the twisted pop ditty “Patio Song,” but Barafundle is above all an album, taking you on a benevolently bent journey akin to the Small Faces’ Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (with a side trip of Incredible String Band), which is high praise indeed. For its first-ever domestic LP release, we’ve had it remastered for vinyl by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and pressed up 2000 copies in jungle swirl vinyl, housed inside a jacket with full-color printed inner sleeve. Put a log on the fire, brew up some mushroom tea, and bliss out.
This is a 2025 Record Store Day release.
Tracklist
A1. Diamond Dew
A2. The Barafundle Bumbler
A3. Starmoonsun
A4. Patio Song
A5. Better Rooms…
A6. Heywood Lane
A7. Pen Gwag Glas
A8. Bola Bola
B1. Cursed, Coined and Crucified
B2. Sometimes the Father Is the Son
B3. Meirion Wyllt
B4. The Wizard and the Lizard
B5. Miniature Kingdoms
B6. Dark Night
B7. Hwyl Fawr I Pawb
B8. Wordless Song
