Pass The Distance

Pass the Distance is not a drippy peace and love record. It is a nocturnal, nightmarish album full of extremes as well as aesthetically beautiful textures and subtleties.

Finn was obsessed with Christian themes (both redemptive and apocalyptic), history, the environment, and strange, oblique love songs.

The centerpiece is the epic "Jerusalem." With maniacally strummed acoustic guitars, a swirling church organ, hand drums, and a muddy bassline, Finn iterates the vision of Christ as he walked through the city and was crucified by the very people who praised his name, and he equates Christ with the 1960s counterculture ideals. The crux of the song is the terror and rage that Christ would feel were he to return and be crucified in the current millennium by those who profess his name. Finn begins softly, sadly, and soon begins ranting and screaming as the music gathers in intensity and menace until it becomes utterly frightening.

It is followed by "Where's Your Master Gone," a song about Satan, articulated with Toop's electric guitar lilting in the backdrop with Burwell popping the accents with his tables. Finn croons sweetly and confusingly about the transformation and redemption of Satan. And so it goes -- whether Finn is singing about love found and lost, sex, new age revelation, or Gnostic Christianity; there is in his gentleness, a darker, more sinister edge, one that can set one's teeth to grinding or make one see things in the dark.

But there is also great tenderness and vulnerability as well, as evidenced by "Patrice," or "What a Day."

Taken as a whole, it is creepy and beautiful and poetic and crazy and utterly wonderful. It is a maverick recording from a time far wilder and more imaginative than our own.

The CD contains the ten-track original album, an unreleased single, and two completely unreleased studio tracks -- one of which is a recording of the first song Finn ever wrote.

While Pass the Distance may not be for everyone, those who dare to step out on to this ledge will be immeasurably rewarded.
Tracklisting:

Simon Finn - Pass The Distance (DURTRO/JNANA 1970 CD)

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1.		Simon Finn - Very Close Friend	1m 20s
2.		Simon Finn - The Courtyard	5m 44s
3.		Simon Finn - What A Day	3m 16s
4.		Simon Finn - Fades (Pass The Distance)	3m 40s
5.		Simon Finn - Jerusalem	6m 44s
6.		Simon Finn - Where's Your Master Gone	3m 14s
7.		Simon Finn - Laughing 'Til Tomorrow	2m 54s
8.		Simon Finn - Hiawatha	4m 58s
9.		Simon Finn - Patrice	2m 49s
10.		Simon Finn - Big White Car	5m 48s
11.		Simon Finn - Children's Eyes	4m 36s
12.		Simon Finn - Good Morning	3m 0s
13.		Simon Finn - Butterfly	3m 27s
14.		Simon Finn - Colonel Bleep	3m 5s

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