Almighty ShuHorn, Private Hearing, 1991

Almighty ShuHorn, Private Hearing, 1991

PERSONNEL:
Sean Nichols: drums
Al Hahn: bass, vocals
Rick D’Anjolell: guitar, vocals

TRACK LISTING:
Side A
(Acoustic, produced by Dave Smith and Almighty Shuhorn)
Without Her
Dead Flowers

Side B
(Electric, produced by Jim Femino)
Penn’s Madonna
Harry Reasoner

Almighty Shuhorn singer-songwriter Rick D’Anjolell and I got to be good friends in the early ’90s. I remember going to a Halloween party in NYC with him, after which we tried and failed to see a comet in the skies of Sunnyside. His band and my band at the time, Tang S’Dang, were both “signed” to New Jersey-based August Records, and we played a gig or two together. (Here’s a 1992 review of one of those shows in the Drexel University Triangle; it was reported that I “seemed real cool”) Back then, Rick lived in Media, PA; he later moved to Wilmington, NC, and became tight with my old pal Kenyata Sullivan and helped found the now-legendary miracle of collective artistic action that was WE Fest. This modest, four-song demo of affable indie-pop was followed by a 7″ single, “No, No, No” b/w “April Turns To June,” produced by Adam Lasus (Yo La Tengo, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. etc.); and in 1992 by a proper CD, Slip It In, released on the aforementioned label, which put out my band’s Bigger & Harder that same year.

“Almighty ShuHorN, Tang S’dang show off their new albums at Dobbs,” by Gary Krimershmoys, The Triangle, Vol. 68 No. 8, November 6, 1992

Richard D’Anjolell has been a real estate agent in Oak Island, NC, for nearly 25 years, but he’s stayed active musically, most recently in a duo/band with singer/percussionist Shelia Bell named Nowcat. You can hear more of his songs here, and this bio, although not up to date, provides a ton more background on a talented and ambitious artist that never achieved the success he deserved but nevertheless forged a happy musical life for himself.

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