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Ramases

Ramases has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 34 episodes and was first played on 8 July 2014.

Ramases was British psychedelic musician Kimberley Barrington Frost (born 1 January 1934 in Sheffield; died 2 December 1976). He released two cult albums in the early 1970s; Space Hymns (Vertigo 6360046, 1971) and Glass Top Coffin (Vertigo 6360115, 1975).

Ramases was the creation and alter-ego of Martin Raphael (sometimes known as Barrington Frost), born in Sheffield, UK. Formerly an army PT instructor, whilst involved in a central heating business in Scotland, was inspired to assume the mantle of the Egyptian Pharaoh of whom he believed himself a reincarnation, and take up a musical career. Early singles (recorded with his wife, Dorthy Frost aka Selket) failed to make any impact, Space Hymns was recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport in 1971 with soon-to-be members of 10cc.

Glass Top Coffin was recorded in 1975 following relocation to Felixstowe, and Ramases retired from the music business soon afterwards.

In 2014 actor Peter Stormare collected together with the help of Selket, Harvey Lisberg and fans, all of Ramases' surviving recordings, both released and unreleased, and compiled them into a six-disc boxed set

On 2 December 1976, aged 42, he took his own life but his death was not widely reported in musical circles until the early 1990s.

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Ramases

Ramases has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 34 episodes and was first played on 8 July 2014.

Ramases was British psychedelic musician Kimberley Barrington Frost (born 1 January 1934 in Sheffield; died 2 December 1976). He released two cult albums in the early 1970s; Space Hymns (Vertigo 6360046, 1971) and Glass Top Coffin (Vertigo 6360115, 1975).

Ramases was the creation and alter-ego of Martin Raphael (sometimes known as Barrington Frost), born in Sheffield, UK. Formerly an army PT instructor, whilst involved in a central heating business in Scotland, was inspired to assume the mantle of the Egyptian Pharaoh of whom he believed himself a reincarnation, and take up a musical career. Early singles (recorded with his wife, Dorthy Frost aka Selket) failed to make any impact, Space Hymns was recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport in 1971 with soon-to-be members of 10cc.

Glass Top Coffin was recorded in 1975 following relocation to Felixstowe, and Ramases retired from the music business soon afterwards.

In 2014 actor Peter Stormare collected together with the help of Selket, Harvey Lisberg and fans, all of Ramases' surviving recordings, both released and unreleased, and compiled them into a six-disc boxed set

On 2 December 1976, aged 42, he took his own life but his death was not widely reported in musical circles until the early 1990s.

Original source: Last.fm

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