Song of the Day: January 5, 2004
From Sandbox, Rockville Records CD, 1993
An Australian immigrant with a pile of great songs, Erik Voeks followed two singles on the Bus Stop Label with a stunning LP. Having fallen in with the Champaign/Urbana pop Mafia (members of Pop the Balloon, Blown, Twiggy, Turning Curious, and Weird Summer appear, as does Adam Schmitt) Voeks effortlessly smacked pitch after pitch over the wall, only to disappear when the album was almost universally ignored. Voeks surfaced one more time for a 1997 single on Parasol Records, but this gifted and humane songwriter has apparently been dormant since then.
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I can't agree more that Sandbox is a stellar album. Regarding other material, there was that country tinged song on "Come and Get It - A Tribute to Badfinger" that was quite nice, from '96. Someone sent me the mp3 or I wouldn't have known about it. For a while Erik was the manager of a couple of CD Warehouse's in Overland Park. That was a number of years ago though so I don't know if he still is. He also had the lead off and title song on Parasol's 2000 Christmas CD "Christmas Singles." Imagine something from Sandbox on a 45 but played at 33.
THIS is good!
Erik and his wife Colleen own the stellar Needmore Discs in Shawnee, KS. www.needmorediscs.com
He is currently fronting the Octopus Frontier in Kansas City.
http://www.myspace.com/theoctopusfrontier
Actual website coming soon, I hear...
REALLY liked that song.very refreshing.
from Evolve.
Guess which song on Sandbox was about Monsanto spewing its noxious vile poisons over the river and over the cities of East and St. Louis every Sunday while the inspectors had the day off. Get up on your roofs and have a look.
Thanks for the tip on Octopus Frontier....lost touch a few eons ago.
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