BLACK GRAPE - Orange Head GLAM ROCK transformed the entire sound of

transformed the entire sound of West Coast rap

The other tracks on this first volume celebrate such pioneers of modern Ethiopian groove as Girma Bèyènè

if Ecstasy of Ruin forms part of a rich lineage

How this record came about has been lost a bit to the midst of (recent) time

BLACK GRAPE - Orange Head GLAM ROCK transformed the entire sound ofCD Standard Edition (10 Tracks). Black Grape could only have been made in Manchester. The swagger, fun and cryptic humour seem hewn from a city historian AJP Taylor once described as offering an archetypally different way of English urban life to London. Both Shaun Ryder and Paul Leveridge, known as Kermit, came from edgy but cool parts of the city. In Shauns case Salford, with Kermit originating from Moss Side. For those unfamiliar, the Moss lay in