GOLDEN PALOMINOSÂ “Omaha” b/w “I.D. (Like A Version)” (Celluloid Records SCEL 56, 1985)
It’s a long-and-winding story with lots of stopgaps, but I’ll try to keep it short. Winter, 1981. Found an album called Memory Serves by a group named Material in the jazz department of my local record shop. Bought it on-sight, simply because I noticed that Brian Eno played gong (or something) on one track. Dumb reason to buy an album, right? Well, just know that at that moment I was searching for something more, whatever that may have been. Anyway, upon hearing the album, I was floored by the rich, heavy, dub-influenced basslines emanating from the fingers of one (check the record sleeve)…Bill Laswell. OK, well suffice to say that over the next few years I spent much hard-earned money on anything with his name on it. That list grew & grew, but one of the finer things I discovered was, in early 1985, this thrilling little single by Golden Palominos.