Band:

Purson

by Gast
BiografiePurson are probably the best young English rock band to emerge since... Well it's been such a long time, we can't think of many names that fit. The days when you got excited about new English bands seem to have passed into history. In Purson, we have a slight return.



Purson are a four piece. They look like they met in a head shop sometime in 1971. The ignorant will compare them with Curved Air and Jefferson Airplane because they have a female singer and they're a bit psychedelic. More informed and astute fans will hear tinges of everything from King Crimson and early Soft Machine to Siouxsie and the Banshees and even Television. But most of us won't waste too much time with idle comparisons because although they enthusiastically cop to a whole raft of pop, psychedelic and progressive influences – you can chuck The Beatles, Roy Wood and Hawkwind into the mix as well - they sound utterly fresh and engaging.



It's no secret that Rosalie Cunningham, singer, guitarist and songwriter has some form. As founder and frontwoman of London all female combo Ipso Facto she's had an inoculation against some of the bullshit of the 21st century music business. Dissatisfied by the way that the fashion angle had swollen to eclipse the music, she broke up the band when they were arguably on the verge of big things.



She formed an intermediary progressive band that never made it out of the rehearsal rooms before meeting up with bassist and co-songwriter Ed Turner. Ed worked in analogue Mecca, Toe Rag Studios, where everyone from The White Stripes to Electric Wizard recorded their finest work. Roslaie met Ed while recording with Ipso facto.



They hit it off right away, realised that they liked the same stuff, and wrote the bulk of the Purson set in a month. Rosalie recruited an old school friend George Hudson to play guitar and Mellotron. They were soon joined by drummer, Raph Mura, and rehearsals were underway. Ed brought his studio experience to the table and the demos that they recorded caught the attention of Julian Cope's esteemed Head Heritage community as well as Rise Above supremo Lee Dorrian.



After only a handful of gigs – most notably a support slot with Blood Ceremony – Purson signed to Rise Above records, something of a no-brainer given their shared aesthetic.



Rosalie is also responsible for the band's look, which evokes a lost world of crushed velvet loon pants, floppy hats and shirts so psychedelic that you need to wear shades to look at them. Sure, it's all about the music, but actually looking like a band is almost half the battle. The look is as deliberate and well executed as The Beatles in their 1963 dark suits.



They may share a label with Electric Wizard, though Purson are hardly a doom or a stoner band. Despite the progressive flourishes, the songs are essentially unashamed pop songs that transcend any genre restrictions. You could imagine some talentless muppett on The X Factor murdering one of them (though let's not see such a thing happening). First single Rocking Horse, an acid-haunted slow burner certainly puts some blue water between Purson and their heavier contemporaries.



The name? Purson is a demon, one of the Great Kings of Hell, commander of the demon armies and not to be messed with. The band, though, don't exactly spend their spare time engaged in necromancy and arcane rituals.



“I wanted a name like Amon Düül. I found out what it meant and I thought if we couldn't find the name of a god, we'd have a demon instead,” says Rosalie.Quelle: http://riseaboverecords-ipool.com/iPool.jsp?cmd=display&page=Release&id=22Discografie2012 - Rocking Horse (Single)

2013 - The Circle And The Blue Door
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Reviews

Rocking Horse - Cover
PURSON sind das Kind der Engländerin Rosalie Cunningham, die auch Gründerin und Frontdame der reinen Frauenband IPSO FACTO ist.
The Circle And The Blue Door - Cover
Ihre vor rund einem Jahr erschienene EP „Rocking Horse“ (deren Titelsong auch hier vertreten ist) war eine hörenswerte Sache; umso gespannter war ich, wie sich das Debütalbum der selbst er