J. Rider
No Longer Anonymous
Officially licensed from the group, here's a remastered CD with the entire 'Lunar Dust' sessions as bonus tracks, plus sleeve notes by Aaron Milenski (co-author of 'The Acid Archives'). Hot on the heels of the reissue of Anonymous' classic album 'Inside The Shadow', Machu Picchu reissues their elusive and legendary follow-up. After the 1976 release of 'Inside The Shadow', the group decided to change their name to J. Rider (after the second cut on the Anonymous LP) and pursued a similar rich vein of impeccable songwriting, but this time adding more hard rock to the mix, resulting in a fantastic sounding album that sadly went unreleased at the time. The excellent reissue label OR Records already put out a small edition in 1996, but now there's a deluxe edition of this gem, complete with new sleeve art. It also happens to come with an entire unreleased 10-song album, recorded in the '90s by the group's visionary songwriter Ron Matelic and featuring most of the members of Anonymous. It's a fascinating complement to the Anonymous and J. Rider albums.