 | Break-In Master
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Kula Shaker / Govinda `97 Hari St. George
Indian National Sitar Ensemble / Meditational Raga Of North India
Kula Shaker / Crispian Reading From The Mahabharata
George Harrison / In The Park
Kula Shaker / Tattva (Lucky 13 Mix)
Them / Square Room (2nd Single Version)
The Yardbirds / Glimpses #1
The Yardbirds / De Lane Lea Lee (Cumular Limit Version)
The Monkees / Head Promo Spots
The Blues Magoos / Dante's Inferno
The Baroques / Death Of An Onion
Johnny Almond's Music Machine / Voodoo Forest
John's Children / Smashed Blocked
The Cookies / Wounded
The Fabulous Frauleins / Days Gone By
Goldie & The Gingerbreads / Little Boy
The Executives / Moving In Circles
The Models / Bend Me, Shape Me
Meredith McRae / Time Stands Still
The Birdies / Pitter Patter
Again, this should've been done last night but, by the time I was considering getting to it, I'd already been up for 29 hours and couldn't stay awake long enough to do it so, here it is, now.
As with the end of the last CD, this one starts with a bunch of Hindi related stuff.
The third track is not exactly psych but, it DOES fit in well, here. I would've used a good bit more Ravi Shankar in this project had I been able to find some (other than the one track I just found months ago) that didn't gradually become yet another version of Dueling Sitars. I like his stuff and have one of the biggest Ravi Shankar collections around but, I can't help but notice that every track starts out very nice and sedate and gradually speeds up over a long spate of time to the point where it's a race between Ravi and Allah to get to the end of the track and Ravi plays a fast run on his sitar and Allah tries to copy it on his tabla and they just keep going back and forth like that `til the end!
"In The Park" is, again, from the Wonderwall soundtrack album. Some pieces from the movie that never made it to the album will eventually show up here.
Although there are two versions of Square Room, I think this one has a sitar or tamboura added to it that the other version doesn't have.
And, with Glimpses #1, we go back into some more of the weird stuff!
De Lane Lea Lee is a much longer version of another recording on the same album, It's VERY hypnotic and, from what I can tell, the "loop" used as the rhythm tends to go out of sync after a while but, nobody seems to be concerned with this. Well, actually, I think it's the musoes that speed up slightly THROWING IT out of sync.
The Head Promo spots were commercials The Monkees made for their movie, Head. As there's no actual advertising in them, they can be used as actual psych tracks.
As for The Baroques, from what I understand, Cadet Concept chose not to release this album after it was recorded and it has only just seen the light of day about 15 years ago. The sound/production on the album is not very good and sounds like someone just recorded the band playing in their living room but, there ARE a few good psych tracks on the album.
John's Children, of course, is where T-Rex eventually came from.
Around this point in production, a friend of mine sent me a bunch of CD's that he'd put together, one of which being loaded with psych tunes from girl groups. So, next, is a few of them that I felt fit well in this section.
Bend Me, Shape Me is the same song done by The American Breed but, this one's more of a heavy psych sound. Almost like Iron Butterfly meets The White Noise at Serendipity's bar-b-que.
And, lastly, the gem of Phil's girl psych CD, Pitter Patter. What a great track!!! It was released at least twice on the same label, each time with another name for the band. The other version went by the name, The Ultra-Mates. (Or, was it, Ulti-Mates?) One of the cool things about it (and a couple other tracks in the project) is that it proves that psych was around at least a few years before late `65/early `66!!
Edited by Break-In Master on 19th Jul 2021, 12:21 AM |