Camera Obscura Records is pleased to be able to present a completely remastered reissue of the very first Black Sun Ensemble LP, a originally released on "Pyknotic" in 1985. This legendary and extremely rare private pressing precedes the first of the Reckless Records LP by a few years, and is little known and heard even by BSE fans, changing hands for in excess of US$100 in recent times. Even at this early juncture, guitarist Jesus Acedo's fret skills were extraordinary, sending out glistening, baroque cascades of semi-acoustic guitar joy across the mystical mescaline landscapes surrounding his Tucson, Arizona home base. 

This reissue isn't exactly the same as the original, as two tracks for which the masters were lost have been replaced by two newly-discovered and totally unheard tracks from the same sessions. We think that this makes the two releases complementary and essential - the true BSE fan will want to track down both. Over to Byron Coley from his sleeve notes for the release: "It is difficult to think of a band that has ever produced psychedelic music that sounded even remotely like the original Black Sun's. Impossible to place either spatially or temporally (I defy anyone to name this album's regional origin or year of recording in a blindfold test), the music here still sounds as gorgeous to me as it did when I first stumbled across it. The magnificent weight of Jesus' guitar work is always a surprise. From the midst of the most gently-drawn sand waves he rises with his scimitar gleaming black in the hot desert sun to fulfil a mission whose orders only he can hear. What more could you ask for? I mean, really?"