Licorice Root Orchestra – RSD 2025

Buy in-store on Record Store Day (12/04/2025). This product is an RSD Exclusive title and is not available to pre-order. Remaining stock available online from: US – 08:00 ET (13/04/2025) EU – 21:00 CEST (14/04/2025) UK – 20:00 BST (14/04/2025) Some titles will sell out prior to online sale and some will only be available in specified regions. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If you ever loved the dreamier side of the Flaming Lips, the idea of Elephant 6, or a great afternoon nap, here’s your chance. This is why the world needs record collectors. Licorice Roots Orchestra is, on its own terms, a masterpiece. Have you ever had a great afternoon nap The kind where you drift off, and on your way back to the afternoon, shards of the dream creep into your reality, bits of reality creep into your dream As you wake up, you can’t tell if the afternoon just got better because the best parts of the dream made it into the day, or because the nap refreshed you so completely that you now have a whole new perspective That’s what “Licorice Roots Orchestra” by Raymond Listen sounds like. If you tilt your head at the appropriate angle, you will hear the best parts of Marc Bolan, Donovan, and the Beatles. Or maybe just a massively talented fan refracting those things, but when you’re just waking up, who can tell Raymond Listen, as the band was originally known, was formed in the early 1990’s by singer/songwriter/pianist Edward Moyse, when he moved from rural Wellsboro in Northern Pennsylvania to Newark, Delaware and asked Dave Milsom to form a band with him. Milsom quickly took up the drums. Gradually, they added Dave Silverman (flute/glockenspiel/keyboards) and Kim Benner (finger cymbals). There was a fertile music scene percolating in Delaware, including peers like Jimmy Crouse, Zen Guerrilla, Smashing Orange, and Carnal Ghia, some of whom Raymond Listen shared stages with in 1991 and 1992. If you wanted to see a national touring act, you probably had to go to Philadelphia, but there was something going on.