A Pale Salamander in Flames

by King Felix

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1.	Open the Sky, Close the Orchard 04:33	info	buy track
2.	Two Aryans with Sharpened Teeth 03:07		buy track
3.	The Holy Fire in Search of a Host 03:58	info	buy track
4.	Ixtapa 01:25		buy track
5.	Micronesia 04:23	info	buy track
6.	Sophia 05:53	info	buy track
7.	Deedle-deedle-queep in three Movements 06:24	info	buy track
8.	The Ancient of Days 03:57	info	buy track
9.	As the Mist Leaves no Scar 05:02	info	buy track

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King Felix' second album-- a double-album-- was released in 1989 on cassette and DAT, and was comprised of two roughly-equal sides: the "A side," named "The Circular Letter," and the "B side," named "A Pale Salamander in Flames."

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released December 25, 1989

This four-track demo was recorded in Louisiana in 1989 on stone-age equipment. Produced by King Felix and Eric Lampton.
King Felix are:
E. S. Hackenberg: Guitar, bass, chapmanstick
Geoff Walden: Voices, piano, insects

Featured players:
Roger Barnes: organ on Coals, meteorology
Matthew S. Cain: Guest guitar on Stimulus
Tiffany Hawkins: Vocals and lucid dreaming on Coals, Orchard, and Holy Fire
Barbara Jarrett: Vocal on Shroedinger's Cat
Jamie Malcombe: Oboe and offerings

*adapted from the poems by Leonard Cohen, c. 1964, 1986, 1968 Leonard Cohen, Viking Press, Inc.
Thanks to Chris Littleton, Al, David White, Gary, WB and P.K.D.

Special thanks to Leonard Cohen

All songs, except as indicated, by KF, c. 1989 The Divine Invasion, Rt. 2, Box 64D, Jackson, LA, 70743

Cover Art: Cavern, Night, and Sleep, by Evelyn De Morgan (1849-1919)

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King Felix Shreveport, Louisiana

King Felix, a progressive/art rock ensemble founded in 1987 in Shreveport, Louisiana, was mainly a creative outlet for prodigal music naturalist Geoff Walden. In collaboration with Keith Rowley and E. Scott Hackenberg (et al.), Walden cranked out four album's worth of richly textured, lyrically obtuse, and trippily-layered compositions. ... more

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