Rustic Hinge & The Provincial Swimmers were a short-lived experimental music venture in the summer of 1970, based in Ilsington Farmhouse, near Puddletown, Dorset (later to be known as Jabberwocky Studios) that evolved out of the ashes of Arthur Brown's Puddletown Express. "The West Country can be a strange and mad place. It surely was in those wild counter-cultural days as the '60s slid into the '70s. Arriving in Bristol in late 1971 for what proved a five-year stretch I crossed paths - in cider pubs, occult bookshops, venues, and record shops - with all manner of characters touched and changed by their doings during those times. Similar doings likely rubbed off and left their mark on me. This extraordinary artefact hails from that milieu, fleshes out a tale that's been retold a few times in various under-the-radar settings, and given three of the central protagonists are now dead perhaps now tells the definitive story. It rescues lost music and presents it as it was originally meant to be, before temporary silliness and pique took hold, making good on renewed but shelved intentions. It's music weird, crazy, and magnificent, possessed of truly creative, psychedelic madness. To frame it as an English 'Trout Mask Replica' is on the money, though along with the Magic Captain, Bartok and Stockhausen will be pleased to hear they are cited as influences, and there's elements of post-war radio comedy too." ~Bucketfull Of Brains