Shiva

Spencer Perskin returned to Austin Texas after playing in San Francisco and formed Shiva's Headband in 1967 soon gaining a strong following thanks to support slots alongside names like Spirit, Steppenwolf, Steve Miller and Canned Heat. Only 1,000 copies of "Coming To A Head", the band's second album, were originally released and are impossible to find. Their fluid and delicate psychedelic sound with the ever present violin and vocal parts in perfect harmony makes it the band's best work. Reissued with the original Armadillo sleeve, printed for the first time ever in colour and now includes the live bonus track "Mr. Noname."

Shiva Jones was the iconic vocalist with supergroup Quintessence during their mercurial 1969-72 reign. Although periodically active in new musical ventures in both Australia and the US during subsequent decades, he made no commercially released recordings and had left the Quintessence repertoire frozen in time. Then, 35 years later, Shiva recruited some of his favourite musicians, including original Quintessence guitarist Maha Dev and Swiss keyboard wizard Rudra Beauvert, to collaborate on a series of remarkably fresh studio recordings featuring old Quintessence favourites along with some wholly new material. Here, remastered from the original mixes, and with a track listing personally selected by Shiva, is the very best of these recordings. The accompanying booklet includes liner notes by Shiva Jones and Rudra Beauvert.