Bill Enich The Guru of Love

Limited cassette release on SlowBurn Records (1991)

songs– Guru of Love, Thoughts of Yesterday, She Knows Whats To Be, Little Girl, Don’t Cry, Mentor of Madness, On My Way, Sweet Sunshine, Love Slave ‘91, Full Effect of My Love, Eternal Freedom, Poor Boy Blues, Scud, Love Slave ’90

Bill Enich – vocals; Eric Johnson – guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals; Jason Peer – bass, guitar, vocals; John Galuska – recorder; “Scud” – Eric Johnson – guitar, congas; Young Arnold – bass

The world of rock music has always had a little place reserved for even the weirdest of characters.  Not unlike Syd Barrett, Daniel Johnston or Roky Erickson, Bill Enich is an artist that is haunted by demons that the listener can only partly understand.  However, unlike the work of Barrett, Johnston or Erickson, Guru of Love is a humorist, ‘outsider-artist’ look at relationships, death and religion that is as wonderfully naïve and funny as is it poignant and profound.  Enich works his way through songs like “Love Slave,” and “Full Effect of My Love” with the help of Cesare’s Dog oboist John Galuska (recorders, oboe, percussion), Sun Zoom Spark’s Eric Johnson (guitar) and Jason Peer (bass).  There is even a few primitively recorded contributions from Enich alone that are the ‘rough-gem’ examples of a talent that never fully made it out into the sunlight.

WARNING: A SlowBurn Records 4 track recording.  Recorded material proudly does not comply with industry standards.