Nerduban – Smoke Signals (1968) [Full Album • Double LP • Analog Psych Noir Rock]

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📼 Unearthed from a forgotten reel-to-reel tape labeled *“Nerduban – Violet Lantern Sessions.”*

This 30-track double LP was tracked in Spring 1968 at The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago — a nocturnal journey of analog tremolo guitars, swirling Farfisa organs, brushed snares, modal jazz fragments, and hypnotic noir psychedelia.

-Captured straight to mono tape — no edits, no overdubs.
-All bleed, hiss, and hum left intact.
-Restored carefully from decayed tape and analog drift.
-Let the echo pull you in.

🌒 Full tracklist and timestamps below ⬇️
🎧 Double LP – Reel-to-Reel Archive Edition

🎵 *FULL TRACKLIST:*
- *REEL A – Side One*
00:00:00 — 1. Signal in the Dust
00:02:22 — 2. The Light Stays On
00:07:02 — 3. Down from the Rooftop
00:11:54 — 4. She Spoke in Tremolo
00:15:54 — 5. Only the Drums Remember
00:19:43 — 6. Room Full of Nothing
00:23:27 — 7. Half a Cigarette
00:27:20 — 8. Ash on the Snare

- *REEL A – Side Two*
00:30:03 — 9. Ceiling Fan Waltz
00:33:17 — 10. Farfisa Lullaby
00:36:52 — 11. The Back Door Swings
00:40:01 — 12. No One Said Goodbye
00:43:09 — 13. Velour Transmission
00:45:42 — 14. Crying Through the Spring Tank
00:48:31 — 15. Don’t Wake the Light

- *REEL B – Side Three*
00:51:20 — 16. Dust Tape Bloom
00:57:00 — 17. Violet Matches
00:59:44 — 18. Flicker Hour
01:04:14 — 19. Echo Static Love Song
01:07:03 — 20. Ashtray Weather
01:10:43 — 21. Mirage in 7/4
01:15:58 — 22. Midnight Is a Window
01:20:02 — 23. Farfisa of Babylon

- *REEL B – Side Four*
01:23:52 — 24. Ghosts Hum in B Minor
01:28:12 — 25. She Left Before the Downbeat
01:32:29 — 26. Tape Deck Gospel
01:36:14 — 27. No Key, Just Room Tone
01:40:44 — 28. Amp Sleeps with One Eye Open
01:44:58 — 29. Last Call at the Violet Lantern
01:48:23 — 30. Smoke Signals (Title Track)

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📼 *Recorded:* Spring 1968
🕯️ *Location:* The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago
🛠️ *Format:* Mono • Tape-Saturated • Raw Analog Mix
🎛️ *Restored by:* Nerduban Archive Circle

📝 *LINER NOTES:*
_From the inner sleeve of the 1968 Violet Lantern pressing_

“Nerduban never played for the crowd. They played for the shadows in the room.”

Recorded in the spring of 1968 inside the dim-lit rehearsal chamber of Chicago’s Violet Lantern Club, Smoke Signals captures a moment that feels both ancient and eerily current. This isn’t music made for the radio, but for the tape deck of a forgotten basement — where echo swirls, tremolo pulses, and stories never find their endings.

Every hiss you hear is real. Every amp buzz, every tape drift, every ghost in the left channel — it all stayed. No edits. No second takes.

This was Nerduban at their most honest: ambient, abstract, moody, raw. With analog equipment humming just past the point of breakdown, they mapped out a noir-psychedelic terrain that sways between modal jazz and smoke-drenched rock séance.

You don’t listen to this record — you drift through it.

— *W. K. HEINGART*
Archivist & Engineer
Nerduban Archive Circle, 2025


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