Monopoly Child Star Searchers - Bamboo For Two

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Note: Some of the cassette outer cases in this batch were cracked/damaged during international transit, but the tapes themselves are in perfect condition and play just fine.

• Limited cassette reissue of Spencer Clark and Co.'s 2010 masterpiece.
• Edition of 50.
• Recorded on hi-quality tapes via studio-quality tape decks.
• First-ever cassette edition, available in the USA via PV.

Track Listing

A1 A Coconut's Shadow Thrown Across The Stem Of A Rose
A2 Bouganvillea's Shallow Lobe (Premier Desire)
B1 Waterfalls Introduction
B2 The Canal Of A Bogonia's Oracle

Catalog Number none
Release Date 2026
Record Label Pacific City Sound Visions
Format CS

PV is honored to be handling exclusive USA distro for a bundle of new Spencer Clark (Skaters, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Pacific City Sound Visions, etc.) cassette reissues. A particularly noteworthy one in the bunch is the first-ever tape edition of 2010’s Bamboo For Two, a Monopoly Child Star Searchers classic featuring James Ferraro on keys, Dolphins Into The Future on “waterfalls,” and Orphan Fairytale on marimba.

Along with The Spectacle Of Light Abductions—which was also recently reissued on tape—Bamboo For Two is perhaps Clark’s defining release as a composer and arranger. Under the Monopoly Child moniker, Clark pushed the musical tropes and visual aesthetic of 1950s exotica to their outer limits. Though the project has more in common with Joe Meek than Les Baxter, notable releases such as Bamboo, Make Mine, Macaw, and The Garnet Toucan were instant classics in Clark’s oeuvre upon their initial transmissions. And Bamboo is the headiest of the bunch; four pieces of deeply lo-fi and psychedelic ambient hymns in the faux-tribal compositional tradition. 16 years since its release, it sounds as timeless as ever.