Zach Cowie / Goodbyes & Beginnings

In my 20+ years of record digging there isn’t much I haven’t dropped a needle on, but nothing will ever be as near and dear to me as my first love – the psych/folk, English folk, and acid folk sounds of the late 60s/early 70s. The seed for this mix was planted about four years ago when my friend Elijah and I were digging together in Copenhagen. Martin at Can Records played us Suzanne Menzel’s 1981 Goodbyes & Beginnings lp and I was floored. What I heard was the spirit of all the of the Wicker-Man‘y folk records that I loved being taken into the modern age—complete with drum machines & synthesizers!