Kendra Smith Presents The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers

Kendra Smith Presents The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers 1992
00:00 1. Legbone Tibet (Interlude)
00:59 2. Stars Are In Your Eyes
04:54 3. Himalayan Bells (Interlude)
05:31 4. Earth Same Breath
09:05 5. Waiting In The Rain
13:03 6. She Brings The Rain
16:50 7. Iridescence 31
20:35 8. Railroad Mix (Interlude)
21:03 9. Wheel Of The Law

The Guild:
Kendra Smith – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, Harmonium, pump organ, production, engineering, recording.
Jonah Corey – vocals, Harmonium, organ, calliope, Distorgan, engineering, recording.
A. Phillip Uberman – Harmonium, organ, guitar, engineering, recording.

Production and additional personnel:
Mitch Greenhill – guitar on "She Brings the Rain"
Eergott Liqueure – guitar, sub-buzz guitar on "Stars Are in Your Eyes", "Waiting in the Rain" and "She Brings the Rain"
Earl Martin – assistant engineering
Orson – drums on "Stars Are in Your Eyes" and "Waiting in the Rain"
Franz Pusch – stick, mixing on "Waiting in the Rain"
Recorded December 1991

By ’91, Smith seemed to have made her back-to-rustic-life hippie move permanent and was through with even gentle rocking and rolling. The Guild of Temporal Adventurers put paid to that assumption. Recorded as a trio of Smith, Jonah Corey and A. Phillip Uberman with four aides-de-weird, this spare and lovely 10-inch of folky electric pop wraps the persistent Nico/Velvets element of Smith’s music — underscored by her adoption of pump organ as a primary instrument — around mild mysticism and a subtle intrusion of atmospheric sound effects. (To get to Smith from the sound of Nico, hold the accent and raise the room temperature about fifteen degrees in tone and passion.) Smith does most of the singing — the lullaby-like “Stars Are in Your Eyes” and the droney “Earth Same Breath” (“All the Next Day’s Parties”?) are especially pretty — but co-writer Corey joins her on two of the six songs, including the Eno-esque “Wheel of the Law.”