Crystalized Movements-Blown Over b/w Through A Glass (1991)


Artist: Crystalized Movements

Title: Blown Over b/w Through A Glass

Label: Twisted Village

Format: 7"

Cat: TW-1007

Year of Release: 1991

Country and Year of Edition: US 1991, 500 pressing, 400 black 487/500

Sell Price: $5.60 VG+/VG+ 8/18/24

Discogs Last Sold: 1/6/24 NM/NM $7.00

Low: $3.00

Median: $7.00

Average: $9.30

High: $29.99 7/29/16 NM/NM

Current low price: $6.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 11

Have/Want: 87/55

Where Sold: Brooklyn, NY

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Purchased: early 90's  Boston guessing In Your Ear, Allston

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

I first discovered Crystalized Moments because guitarist Eric Arn became a DJ after me at WICN overnights.  He brought their new (then) album Dog...Tree...Satellite Seers into the station and I played it constantly in 1987.  They were opening for Sonic Youth playing under a pseudonym at T.T. The Bears while I was doing my show in Worcester that night and Eric called in to pipe them in over the phone.  I did get to see Crystalized Movements with Eric playing at Worcester Polytech Institute,  up the street from where I grew up and saw Isaac Asimov give a lecture earlier in the 80's.  Usually concerts were students only there, but I got to see the talent show and remember no other band sounded vaguely "alternative" and the MC made fun of the bands name.

This single came out after Eric's 1988 departure and I believe Kate Biggar joined to replace him around this record.  She is notable to me because we were doing the same radio promotion internship at Rykodisc in Salem on alternate days and never met when we were working there. I think I ultimately met her at some point in time.  I last saw Eric maybe 5 years or so, he was gigging solo at Nick Bodor's short lived Brooklyn venue after Cake Shop.  He's kept going and so has leader Wayne Rogers who with his now wife Kate have Major Stars.  I consider Wayne to be one of the finest guitarists to come from New England, especially Connecticut.

This particular record wasn't my favorite by the band.  Nothing they do is bad, but the A-side has a Led Zep "Tangerine" thing into noisier terrain that seems like a lesser track of theirs.  The B-side is the classic sound we all know and expect from Crystalized Movements.  Twisted Village was Wayne & Kate's label, and they put their better music that year through the No. 6 label with larger indie distribution.  'The Lowest Step" single from the same time was an absolute favorite of mine from 1991.

Such is life in New England.


 

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