BURIED TREASURE
Deity deeds
Top of this month’s anti-matter hit parade of the lost, a psychic mixtape plays…
Holy alliance: Family Of God’s Chris Brick (left) and Adam Peters.
Korinna Knoll
Family Of God
Family Of God
SELF-RELEASED, 1996
MUSICIAN AND arranger Adam Peters has multiple credits the MOJO reader will know, from Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ocean Rain and The Triffids’ Born
Sandy Devotional to work with Beth Orton, Mercur y Rev, Nick Laird-Clowes and others. One that probably won’t be as familiar is 1996’s debut double LP by the Family Of God, self-released in an edition of 1,000 copies, which he recorded in New York with Merthyr-born style sage Chris Brick.
Originally from Croydon, Peters had been resident in NY since 1991 after going there to work with Lloyd Cole. Two years later he re-established contact with Brick, whose late-’80s London warehouse parties, and Soho clothes shop Demob, he had frequented. The two began sharing their broad and outré tastes in music – playlists included children’s music, Lebanese singer Mayada, the Tijuana Brass’ Whipped Cream & Other Delights and Israeli disco – and playing it to the customers at Brick’s boutique Smylonylon on Lafayette Street.