INDIE SPIRIT
The Gentry is a band from de Zaanstreek (The Netherlands) that started in 1984 and temporarily split in 1991. During that first period they made two LPs and a cassette on their Enclosure label Fragments Of Truth (1984), Solitary (1986) en Growing Up Absurd (1988). Because of airplay by the legendary BBC-dj John Peel, they gained some international attention. Fragments Of Truth (1984), Solitary (1986) will be re-issued early 2011 as a double CD by Mannequin, Rome Italy. In 2008 The Gentry reformed to make sone new songs! Dec 2009-March 2010 the band recorded the new material in the Ijland studio, Amsterdam. The new cd Margins of Essence was issued on Enclosure November 2010.