Inner Marshland

The Bevis Frond: Nick Saloman (various instruments); Graham Cumming (piano).Includes liner notes by Nick Saloman.Recording information: The Bedroom on a Tascam Porta One (1987).The 2001 reissue of the Bevis Frond's second album, 1987's Inner Marshland, doesn't have significantly better sound than the original Reckless CD, which had been out of print for years. (Like all of the Bevis Frond's early albums, Inner Marshland was recorded on a four-track Portastudio in Nick Saloman's bedroom, so there's a limit to how good this material can be made to sound.) However, the album does feature, in addition to extensive liner notes by Saloman himself, six previously unreleased outtakes from these 1987 sessions. It's a wonder that there were tracks left over at all, as Inner Marshland is the second full-length album Saloman had recorded in the space of a year. While one might reasonably expect this album to consist of leftovers from the sessions for Miasma, these 11 songs are largely more concise