VIKING VISION



An independent label from Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands.  Viking Vision was owned by Douglas Bentley, who had a shop selling electrical goods and ran a small studio.  It appears to have operated from 1978 until around 1984.  Its products were mainly albums or cassettes, and their catalogue numbers, which reached at least ZE-023, suggest that there were a couple of dozen or so of them, though Googling doesn't bring up many.  Thankfully from the point of view of this site Viking Vision put out at least one 7" record, an EP by Folk band Hom Bru.  The EP came out in 1979, and offered 'Jolly Beggar' and 'Rona's Voe' in addition to the tracks shown on the scan.  Its catalogue number was ZOO-1.  There doesn't seem to have been a ZOO-2.




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