CAPITOL [previously unreleased]

from OUT OF THY STAR by The Ophelias

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Track: 9
Title: CAPITOL [previously unreleased]
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: June 1989
Recording place: LPC Rehearsal Studios, Oakland, CA
Recording engineers: David Immergluck & Alain Lucchesi – DAT recorder
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 02:20
First appeared on: Out of Thy Star, Bandcamp
Released 23 November 2020 [streaming only*]

Leslie Medford : vocals, electric guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Alain Lucchesi : drums

Particulars: This delightful track, envisioned for inclusion on the album to follow-up The Big O (meaning Oafs album #4) finally makes its debut as perhaps the keystone of Out of Thy Star. Recorded on Lucchesi’s DAT machine in The Ophelias rehearsal space, the intention was to re-record it in a proper studio, but this demo version would have been hard to beat. The original DAT cassette with Capitol (and three other demos) was destroyed when Alain’s family home suffered a devastating fire in 1990. This made Medford’s standard cassette copy (which had been run-off from the DAT) the sole “master” of the four LPC demos. Medford and Salbacka have done a remarkable job in getting Capitol to sound so glorious.

*And now, having been selected by Bruce Licher of Independent Project Records for their “Source” compilation – by which the famed IPR label relaunches – Capitol will be available on CD as of June 2021.

lyrics

CAPITOL

I was not the only ploughboy to leave the village for the capitol.
That summer work was where you found it
And the land outside the city needed to rediscover
The pure and gentle nature of the Indians on her skin.

The plants were flourishing like no others,
And when I saw you on the street
I knew that I was in the right place.
What’s that in the tapebox, ye little shame of sin!

We coupled highly in the capitol.
And if I could just hold you. One more time in my arms again
Like we did last Sunday, I’m sure that you will recognize
That we should be together all the time.

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from OUT OF THY STAR, released November 23, 2020

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