The Bevis Frond was Nick Saloman, a neo-psychedelic Renaissance man and the sole writer, performer, and producer behind the cottage industry bearing the Frond name. The head of his own label (Woronzow) as well as the co-publisher of his own underground magazine (the highly regarded Ptolemaic Terrascope), Saloman was a quintessential English eccentric, a frighteningly prolific talent and a true anachronism purveying an archaic musical genre while simultaneously pioneering the lo-fi aesthetic.
Saloman cloaked his formative years in mystery; according to legend, he formed his f...