Name: The Clarion Set
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRSEGBOX128

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-07-28

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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Standard:20

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5013929192805

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CDx3

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Various

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Classic

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Grapefruit

<p>Grapefruit is a UK-based music label that specializes in psych/garage-era music from the 1966-70 timeframe. Managed by Cherry Red, Grapefruit focuses on releasing single-artist career anthologies and definitive versions of rare and classic albums. Each release features sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes, and high-quality sound from the original masters.</p>

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Four-hour 3CD compilation of the pioneering 60s/early 70s Australian independent Clarion label. A smorgasbord of driving R&amp;B, sunshine pop, studio psychedelia and progressive rock recorded in Perth, Western Australia.

Based in the Western Australian city of Perth, teenager Martin Clarke was working at a local radio station when he converted a spare bedroom into a makeshift recording studio.

That modest early venture evolved into Martin Clarke Recording Studios, which opened in 1962 to become Perth’s first professional recording facility.

By the time the studio purchased a four-track in 1966, Clarke had launched the Clarion label, working with a constant stream of solo singers and beat/R&amp;B groups.

With a raised profile after Perth TV personality Johnny Young had a national hit with the Easybeats-penned ‘Step Back’, Clarion signed a number of promising new acts that included The Valentines (featuring a pre-AC/DC Bon Scott) and Young’s TV colleague Robbie Snowden.

Clarion went on to have a number of regional and national successes, releasing interesting music into the 70s (British expatriates The Birds and Chalice, plus local progressive rockers Fatty Lumpkin) before Clarke wound down the label and relocated to England.

A four-hour 3CD anthology, <i>The Clarion Set</i> assembles the pick of the label’s roster, with choice selections from the aforementioned acts as well as female-fronted folk rockers Gemini, powerhouse R&amp;B/soul vocalist Ray Hoff, pre-Valentines garage band The Spektors and in-house psychedelic experiment The Vegetable Garden.