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Maurice Deebank - Inner Thought Zone [CD MRED 61 UK 1992 FLAC]

Originally released as a vinyl mini album on Cherry Red Records in 1984. This 1992 compact disc reissue features the original album and four new tracks recorded eight years after the original sessions.

Maurice Deebank is best known for his work as lead guitarist with peerless 1980s indie combo Felt. Deebank played with Felt on their crucial early albums, appearing on the likes of Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty and The Strange Idols Pattern And Other Short Stories. Much of those records’ otherworldly charm was a result of Deebank’s limpid, intricate guitar work, comparable in scope and flair to Vini Reilly’s work with The Durutti Column, no more so than on the album's seven minute epicentre, Silver Fountain Of Paradise Square and the gorgeously solemn So Serene.

Inner Thought Zone, released in 1984 on Felt stable Cherry Red, is Deebank’s first and only solo release. The six-track instrumental collection offers the thrilling sound of a band member sprinting after his muse. Deebank’s playing – all acciaccaturas and tangled arpeggios – is classical without being austere; aided by synth washes and subtle bass work from David Elson, the result is an oneiric and instantly accessible collection of 1980s psych, and one throughly deserving of its cult classic status. Following the release of Inner Thought Zone, Deebank handed in his Felt notice, leaving the group after the sessions for 1985’s Ignite The Seven Cannons.

Snippets of the above were borrowed from open source.

01 The Watery Song
02 Four Corners Of The Earth
03 Study No. 1
04 Golden Hills
05 Silver Fountain Of Paradise Square
06 So Serene
07 Dance Of Deliverance
08 Pavane
09 A Tale From Scriabin's Lonely Trail
10 Maestoso Con Anima