"26 Turkish Beat Psyche & Garage Delights Ultrarities Beyond the Sea of Marmara ":

A compilation of Turkish rock groups from the 1960s and 70s. The album highlights of the early and classic 1966-77 rock periods in Turkey, including giants such as Mavi Isiklar,Baris Manco, Erkin Koray, Mogollar and more. Highly Recommended !!!

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"Joe Bataan- Salsoul - 1974 US":

Joe Bataan (also spelled Bataán) (born 1942 in Spanish Harlem, New York City) is an Afro-Filipino American Latin R&B musician from New York. He was born Bataan Nitollano and grew up in the 103rd and Lexington part of East Harlem where he briefly lead the Dragons, a local Puerto Rican street gang before being sent to the Coxsackie Correctional Facility to serve time for a stolen car charge. Bataan was influenced by two musical styles, the Latin boogaloo and African American doo-wop.

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"The Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain -1969 US":

The Youngbloods were an American folk/psych band consisting of Jesse Colin Young (vocals, bass), Jerry Corbitt (lead guitar), "Banana" Lowell Levinger (rhythm guitar) and Joe Bauer (drums).

Jesse Colin Young (b, Perry Miller, November 11, 1941, New York City) was a moderately successful folk singer with two LPs under his belt when he met fellow folk singer and former bluegrass musician from Cambridge named Jerry Corbitt (b. Tifton, Georgia). When in town, Young would drop in on Corbitt and the two would play together for hours, exchanging harmonies.
Beginning in January 1965 , the two began performing on the Canadian circuit as a duo (eventually as the Youngbloods, Young would play bass and Corbitt would play piano, harmonica and lead guitar. Corbitt introduced Young to a bluegrass musician, Lowell Levinger, who had the nickname of "Banana." (b. Lowell Levinger, 1946, Cambridge, Massachusetts).

Levinger could play the banjo, mandolin, mandola, guitar and bass. He had played in the Proper Bostoners and the Trolls and knew of a fellow tenant who could flesh out the band.

Joe Bauer (b. September 26, 1941, Memphis, Florida) an aspiring jazz drummer with experience playing in society dance bands, was at first unmoved by the offer to perform in a rock and roll outfit, but soon gave in.

"Elephant Mountain " featuring many of their best tracks, including 'Sunlight', 'Beautiful', 'Ride The Wind' & 'Darkness, Darkness' .

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"Randy Carlos and His Orchestra- Makin' Whoopee Cha Cha Cha-1958 US":

This is a great dance record of cha cha and mambo tunes . If you like Latin music GET IT!!!

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"Earth Opera-S/T-1968 US":

Earth Opera were an American psychedelic rock group from the late 1960s featuring Peter Rowan and David Grisman.They formed Earth Opera in 1967 and were joined by John Nagy on bass, Paul Dillon on drums and Bill Stevenson on keyboards and vibraphone.

The Boston-based group self-titled debut LP featured a heady mixture of pop, rock, folk, jazz, and classical elements in involved arrangements played on such unusual instruments as mandocello and harpsichord. Earth Opera played in an arty style that suited singer/songwriter/guitarist Peter Rowan's songs, with their complicated structures and highly poetic lyrics.

Rowan sang those lyrics, which dealt here and there with anti-war and more generalized sentiments of social dissatisfaction, in a distanced, somewhat artificial tone of voice, using an accent that sounded vaguely British.

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"Eden Ahbez-Eden's Island- 1960 US":

Eden Ahbez (born Alexander Aberle) 15 April 1908, Brooklyn, New York -Died 4 March 1995, Los Angeles, California.

Excellent and historically significant milestone in the merger of the west coast spiritual and pop cultures. Ahbez is most famous for writing "Nature Boy" which was a massive hit for Nat King Cole (and much later covered by Gandalf), but in recent years fans of exotica and psychedelia have fallen for this album in a big way.He emerged to public attention around 1948, when Nat King Cole recorded his song, "Nature Boy," that told a fantasy of a "strange enchanted boy" "who wandered very far" only to learn that "the greatest gift" "was just to love and be loved in return."

14 terrific songs full of dreamy desert island moods, balances perfectly the starry-eyed 50s quest for exotic locales with a deeper felt search for inner calm and belonging. Despite the 1960 date, Eden looks like a total hippie on the front cover.

Ahbez was a legend in Hollywood for his unusual life style. Even after he and his wife

had a son, they kept on living out under the stars, with not much more than a bicycle, their sleeping bags and a juicer to their name.

The story may be apochryphal, but it's said that once, when Ahbez was being hassled by a cop who assumed from his wild appearance that he deserved to be hauled off to a mental institution, he remarked calmly, "I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are." The cop thought it over and responded, "You know but, you're right. If anybody gives you any trouble, let me know." Ironically, he died in 1995 after being hit by a car.

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"La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata-S/T-1971 Mexico":

A legendary Mexican outfit who along with Flying Karpets ,The Survival and Kaleidoscope were the country's top psychedelic acts in the late sixties and the early seventies.Probably one of the best pieces of Latin American psychedelic rock ever made.

This self-titled LP is the legendary 1971 debut by this psychedelic group from Guadalajara . These acid rockers let it all hang loose as fuzz guitar rips through excellent tracks with English vocals.

Highly Recommended !!!

Musicians: Javier Martín of the Field (guitar, flute, piano), Red Oscar Gutiérrez (vocal), Antonio Carbajal Cross (drums), Francisco Martinez Ornelas (bass), Carlos Valley Branches (guitar)

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"Gale Garnett-Sings About Flying and Rainbows and Love and Other Groovy Things -1967 US":
Best known for her Grammywinning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine," Gale Garnett has since carved out a longlived career as a writer and actress. Gale Zoë Garnett was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 17, 1942 .Her family moved to Canada when she was 11 and she made her public singing debut in 1960.
This is a very good sunshine/pop album from 1967. Garnett continued to record the rest of the '60s with her backing band the "Gentle Reign".
MEMBERS: Gale Garnett, Dick Rosmini, Tommy Tedesco, Earl Palmer, Don Randi, Van Dyke Parks
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"Felt - S/T-1971 US":

This rare LP was the only long-player produced by the progressive blues quintet formed by 17-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist Myke Jackson. A wide-ranging spectrum of influences including late Beatle-psych, mellow west coast-jamming and early 1970s hardrock. Fellow guitarist, Stan Lee would move on to the punk band the Dickies later in the '70s. Recommended!

Musicians: Myke Jackson- guitar, vocals

Mike Neel- drums

Tommy Gilstrap- bass

Stan Lee- guitar

Allan Dalrymple- keyboards

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"James Last- Hair -1969 Germany":

James Last (born Hans Last on April 17, 1929 in Bremen) is a German composer and big band leader.Last learned to play the piano as a child, then switching to bass guitar as a teenager and played with the Radio Bremen Dance Orchestra in the early 1950s. In 1955, he joined the staff at Polydor Records, where he stayed for the next 30-plus years. In the 1960s, Last became a recording artist in his own right and his copious output for Polydor began.

Last decided to release his own version of the musical "Hair" with all the basic songs like Aquarius, Let The Sunshine In and Hare Krishna. Last does a straightforward job on each track. The standouts are 'Good Morning Starshine' and 'Walking In Space' with their deep, dark moody interplay between guitar, bass and horns.

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"Charly Antolini's Power Dozen -Atomic Drums -1972 Germany ":

"Atomic Drums" by the Master drummer from Switzerland,Charly Antolini, released in 1972 on the GER EMI Columbia .Very rare heavy groovy hammer funky LP, with lots of effects and breaks and pure dancefloor madness and is a pleasure to listen to from beginning to end.

musicians:
Max Greger jr.- organ, Milan Pilar - fender bass, Charly Antolini - drums, perc., Harry Winkler - lead guitar, Mich Goltz - rhythm guitar, Eric Thoener - keyboards, Karl Bartelmes, Walter Raab - trumpets, Horst Gmeinwieser, Fritz Glaeser - trombones, Hans Wolf - bariton- & tenor sax, Egon Haag - tenor sax, flute

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"Pirana - Pirana II -1972 Australia ":

PIRANA was an Australian band who released two really nice albums of pure progressive rock with some heavy drum and guitar breaks!!! Rare second album which i feel better than the first. It features a great progressive rock with beautiful guitar/organ/percussions work, nice arrangements.Like a cross between Pink Floyd & early Santana. Beautiful Hammond chords, great prog feels and some mighty Fuzz/Acid drenched guitar work from Tony Hamilton, definately one of Australia's best guitarists around at the time.

Personnel: Tony Hamilton - Guitar,Congas,Vocals Graeme Thompson - Bass,Whistles Jim Yonge - Drums,Tymbalis Keith Greig - Keyboards,Tamborine

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"Peace & Love-Versiones En Ingles -1971 Mexico":

Latin rock group from Mexico, who also played to Avandaro Festival (the Mexican Woodstock) in 1971. They sang in English.

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" Jorge Ben-S/T-1969 Brazil":

Born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes, he initially took the stage name Jorge Ben after his mother's name (of Ethiopian origin), but later changed it to Jorge Ben Jor (commonly written Benjor), allegedly in response to an incident where some of his royalties had accidentally gone to American guitarist George Benson. Jorge Ben Jor born in Rio de Janeiro on March 22, 1942. His characteristic style fuses samba, funk and rock into samba-rock, with lyrics that blend humor and satire with often esoteric subject matter.

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"The City - Now that everything's been said- feat. Carole King -1968 US":
Originating from the New York scene, this decent folk/ rock group, is of most interest for it's members solo careers: Carole King with her husband Charlie Larkey, Danny Kortchman and drummer Jimmy Gordon formed the group "The City" and record their only album under Lou Adler's ODE records. Their melodic songs were covered by several groups, notably 'Wasn't Born To Follow' by The Byrds. This is a recording of Carole before her real success and is hard to find . I also think it is a very good album.

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"The Conqueroo - From The Vulcan Gas Company -1968 US":

One of Austin,Texas best-loved bands of this era they opened their own club, The Vulcan Gas Company in 1967 and among its attractions were the '13th Floor Elevators' and many of the best black blues singers of the era. The club lasted until 1970.

Their 45 (‘1 to 3’ b/w ‘I’ve Got Time’) appeared in a picture sleeve and featured some fine 'acid' guitar work. Indeed the band have been referred to as Austin's 'Grateful Dead'. They moved to San Francisco for a while and also worked as 'The Angel Band'. Disillusioned 'The Conqueroo' split and returned to Texas. They reformed briefly in the mid-seventies. Their retrospective guitar driven PSYCH album is a live recordings from 1968.

The band was initially led by singer/guitarist and songwriter Powell St John, however he left before the band took off and was replaced in October 1966 by rhythm guitarist and vocalist Bob Brown. Drummer Daryl Rutherford replaced Tom Bright for a series of recordings 'The Conqueroo' made at the Vulcan in their home town of Austin, Texas in 1968 he in turn was subsequently replaced by Gerry Storm and when the band recorded 4 songs at Pacific High Studios on San Francisco, drummer Alvin Sykes deputised.

Line up: Charlie Prichard (lead guitar, bass and vocals), Ed Guinn (bass, keyboards, woodwind, vocals), Tom Bright (drums), Bill Carr (vocals, harmonica) Wally Stopher (rhythm guitar and keyboards).

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"Southwest F.O.B. - Smell Of Incense -1968 US":

'Southwest F.O.B.' (originally called Theze Few) was a groovy, harmony-laced Dallas, Texas combo that owed as much to the 'Association' as it did to the trippy new sounds of the 'Strawberry Alarm Clock' and the 'West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band'. Shining a multi-hued spotlight on the heavenly harmonies of Dan Seals and John Colley, Southwest F.O.B.'s only album, Smell of Incense, also laid on plenty of Country Joe-like Farfisa.The album has some psychedelic influences as well as a risque (for 1968) cover shot of four naked women enclosed in a plexiglass box.

MEMBERS: JOHN "LASSIE" COLLEY keyb'ds, vcls TONY "ZEKE" DURRELL drms DAN SEALS ld vcls, sax LARRY "OVID" STEVENS gtr, vcls MIKE "DOC" WOOLBRIGHT bs, vcls RANDY BATES trumpet SHANE KEISTER keyb'ds BOYD WILLIAMS bs, vcls
Recommended!

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"Street-S/T- 1968 US":

This extremely rare one and only LP by "STREET" was pressed back in 1968 by VERVE FORECAST RECORDS.

The music is a mix of acid folk and fuzz psych rock. Vocals by Anya Cohen bring to mind Grace Slick.

MEMBERS: Anya Cohen - Michael Lynne - John Williamson-Will Betz - Al Camardo - Tom Champion

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" The Fort Mudge Memorial Dump - S/T-1969 US":

"Fort Mudge Memorial Dump" was a band from Walpole, Massachusetts, that started playing by 1969, gathering a good number of fans. They got filed into the “Boston Sound”, among the Ultimate Spinach, the Beacon Street Union, Tangerine Zoo, etc.

With good technique and better ideas, they recorded a great and very sought-after LP in which the voice of Caroline Stratton stands out to some Jefferson Airplane affinity. Guitarist Dean Keady, with his jazzy effects, leads the band.

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"Chakachas - Jungle Fever-1972 Belgium":

The Chakachas were a Belgium based group of Latin Soul studio musicians.
Also known as Les Chakachas or Los Chakachas, they were formed by band leader Gaston Bogaert (percussion) Kari Kenton (vocals & maracas) Vic Ingeveldt (Dutchman from Liege, saxophone) Charlie Lots (trumpet) Christian Marc (piano) Henri Breyre (guitar & backing vocals) and Bill Raymond (bass).

All were native in Schaarbeek (a district of Brussels) or nearby Charleroi, Willebroek and Liege.
They started out in the late 1950s and had a Belgian #1 in 1958 with "Eso Es El Amor", which was sung in Spanish. Although they issued numerous recordings, they are best remembered for their hit single "Jungle Fever" from 1972, which sold over a million copies in the U.S. and reached #3. Recommended to all the fans of Salsa and Latin Funk sounds of the 1970s !!!

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"Bossa 70 - S/T -1970 Peru":

This is the First and Only Album of " Bossa 70". After this album, Nilo Espinoza, the leader of this band created the band "NIL'S JAZZ ENSEMBLE".
If you never hear about this mega rare and fantastic LP (ONLY 300 PRESSED!!), you can hear the entire album here. This LP is really great!!! A mix of bossa nova, jazz, psych, guitars like Santana, keyboards, great swing soul trumpet, acid jazz rythms, great percussions, excellent female vocals singing in SPANISH, ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE.
The musicians:
NILO ESPINOZA: SAX, FLUTE ,VOCALS
EENRIQUE SESCUN: TRUMPET, TROMBONΕ, VOCALS
CARMEN ROSA BASURCO: VOCALS
OTTO DE ROJAS: KEYBOARDS AND CHORUS
ROBERTO RAFAELI: BASS AND CHORUS
TITO CRUZ: DRUMS AND PERCUSSIONS
ENRIQUE "PICO" EGO AGUIRRE: GUITAR
MANUEL MARAÑON : PERCUSSION
ADOLFO BONARIVA: TIMBALES AND COWBELL

Highly Recommended !!!

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" Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra-Hair Goes Latin -1969":

Edmundo Ros ( Born 7 December 1910, Port of Spain, Trinidad ) was Latin music in the U.K. for most of the post-war period. Ros' parents separated not long after he was born and he was enrolled into a military school. It was a miserable experience, and he eventually ran off to Venezuela in his late teens. He had the good fortune to have learned enough about playing percussion while in school that he was able to land a job with an orchestra in Caracas.
After a decade in Venezuela, Ros decided to ride the wave of popularity surrounding the rhumba and other Latin dances and moved to the U.K. in 1937. Within a few years, he had formed his own band and was playing in London clubs.

Not all Edmundo Ros devotees could have been excited by the prospect of the leading Latin maestro recording an album of the music from the rather avant garde musical "Hair" back in 1969. The fact is that most of the melodies turn out to be excellent choices for the Ros treatment and this is an exciting and dynamic album in marvellous phase4stereo. The superior arrangements were by Roland Shaw and the Edmundo Ros Orchestra are as superb as ever. There are some lovely trombone, guitar and trumpet solos which lift the number out of the ordinary.

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"Bango -S/T- 1970 Brazil":

Originally released in 1970, this is extra-heavy Brazilian psych, with killer guitars and well-crafted original songs. This is one of the most sought-after albums from Brazil in the realm of hard psych, and you may already know one track from the Love Peace & Poetry: Brazilian Psychedelic Music album which is quite a standout.

For many underground collectors this is the ultimate psych album, with songs like : Only, Vou Caminhar, Inferno No Mundo... Enjoy!!!

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"ΖΩΝΤΑΝΟΙ ΣΤΟ ΚΥΤΤΑΡΟ LIVE-1971 Greece":

A rare and historic live recordings from 1971 at the "KITTARO CLUB" in Athens.The sound and the groups of that season like: Eksadaxtylos feat. Dimitris Poulikakos, Socrates Drank The Conium, Damon & Fidias feat. Pavlos Sidiropoulos , Despina Glezou...Underground hearings , effort for freedom, dynamic scene of 70's rock in Greece. Highly Recommended !!!

by request :"Dimitris Poulikakos- Metaforai ekdromai o Mitsos-1976 Greece":

Dimitris Poulikakos (born 17 March 1942 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek actor and rock singer. Poulikakos, is one of the most respected rock personas of Greek "underground" music, is clearly influenced by Frank Zappa in this very good Psychedelic Rock Album with Greek Lyrics. Has the complex rock and fusion tacks interspersed with the requisite amount of silliness.

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"The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society-1968 UK":

While the Kinks may be better known for their early string of singles ("All Day & All of the Night," etc.), some of their most timeless music was the quiet, gentle, and lesser-known stuff from '68-'72, when Ray Davies did some truly original character-based songwriting and the band traded in their simple riff-rockers for more melodic, moving music.

On Village Green Preservation Society, the band nearly gave up rock completely, coming up with a primarily acoustic set of songs, each of which is a character sketch of an inhabitant in a fictional, pastoral English village (reminiscent of the poetry collection Spoon River Anthology). The album is sweet and charming and hard to believe it came from the same guys as "You Really Got Me."

RECOMMENDED!!!

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"31st of February-S/T- 1968 US":

Their 1st and only album originally released in 1968 on Vanguard. Acid rock psychedelia.David Brown was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, raised in Jacksonville, Florida, he has a great musical history to his credit. He formed a band with Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers Band) and Scott Boyer (Cowboy) in 1966. After years of touring the South as "The Bitter Ind." the band recorded an album of mostly original material released in 1968 as "The 31st of February". This group's lineup eventually included Duane and Gregg Allman.

MEMBERS:
Scott Boyer - Guitar, Vocals
David Brown - Bass
Butch Trucks - Drums

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"Blues Magoos- Gulf Coast Bound -1970 US":
"The Blues Magoos" was a garage/psych group from the Bronx, New York. The band was formed in 1964 as "The Trenchcoats". The original members were Emil Thielhelm aka Peppy Castro (vocals and guitar), Dennis LaPore (lead guitar), Ralph Scala (organ and vocals), Ronnie Gilbert (bass) and John Finnegan (drums).
They released Psychedelic Lollipop(1966), Electric Comic Book (1967) and Basic Blues Magoos (1968). By 1968, the band was discouraged and they split up.
The group's management had other plans. The band was signed to ABC Records, but most of the members did not go along with this plan. Only Castro agreed and started up a revamped "Blues Magoos", with Roger Eaton - bass, Eric-Justin Kaz - keyboards/trumpet/harp/vocals, John Liello - vibes , Dean Evanson - flute and Herb Lavelle - drums. In 1969, with the new line up completed "Never Goin' Back To Georgia ". Eaton left the band and the other "Blues Magoos" used session musicians for the follow up "Gulf Coast Bound". Their last two albums is in the jazz /blues mood.

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"Beacon Street Union -The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens- 1968 US":

The Beacon Street Union was a 1960s psychedelic era rock band, named for a street in their native Boston, whose original members were John Lincoln Wright (vocals, percussion), Paul Tartachny (guitar, vocals), Wayne Ulaky (bass, vocals), Robert Rhodes (keyboards, bass) and Richard Weisberg (drums). With the exception of a few rock standards, their diverse music was composed by group members, primarily Wright and Ulaky.

MGM Records promoted them as part of the so-called "Bosstown Sound" ,along with such groups as Ultimate Spinach, Orpheus, and Earth Opera.After two albums (here is their second) the band disbanded in 1969. Wright, Ulaky and Rhodes were joined by guitarist Jamie James and recorded an album as "The Eagle" in 1970.

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"Sapphire Thinkers - From Within -1968 US":

"The Sapphire Thinkers" were an American psychedelic rock band that recorded an album, From Within, in 1968. The band consisted of a total of five members. The band's founder, Bill Richmond, currently lives in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and continues to write and produce original music.

Excellent 1968 Californian band who with their mix of male and female vocalists and fuzz lead guitar bear comparisons with Yankee Dollar or Peanut Butter Conspiracy. Their album features some excellent harmonies and nice trippy touches in particular the Doors like keyboards and backward effects.

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"Sagittarius- Present Tense -1968 US":

In an alternative universe, Curt Boettcher would be lauded along with Brian Wilson as one of the reigning geniuses of '60s California pop and psychedelia. After success as a writer/producer for others, Boettcher founded the Ballroom and then the Millennium, recording material that was far ahead of its time.

Some of the material and much of the sensibility of those groups were brought to Sagittarius, Boettcher's collaboration with producer/composer Gary Usher (the Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, etc.).In a revolutionary move for the time, Sagittarius was conceived purely as a studio group, and California pals like Glen Campbell and Beach Boy Bruce Johnston were brought in to work on PRESENT TENSE. The result is a marriage of pure pop, psychedelia and experimentalism that makes the PET SOUNDS-era Beach Boys sound.

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"Manos Hadjidakis with the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble- Reflections -1970 US":

Manos Hadjidakis (October 23, 1925–June 15, 1994) was one of the most popular Greek music composers. He was born in Xanthi, Greece. In 1962 he received an Academy Award in the category of Best Music, for his song "Never on Sunday" from the film of the same name. He is widely popular among Greeks and can be credited with the introduction of bouzouki music into mainstream culture.

In 1966 he travelled to New York. He did not return to Greece until 1972, mostly because of opposition to Greece's military dictatorship. While in America he completed several more major compositions. His LP "Reflections" with the "New York Rock & Roll Ensemble" contained several of his most beautiful songs, either in orchestral form or with English lyrics written by the band - a record that preceded fusion trends by several decades.

This was the third album of " New York Rock & Roll Ensemble" and was a collaboration with Greek composer on the score for a film that was never produced. The group decided to use this already recorded but unreleased music for their last Atlantic album. Because this album was such a great departure from their "classical/rock" roots, it apparently sold poorly when released and the members of the group believed that it hurt their popularity by confusing their fan base.

Ironically, this album is now the group's biggest selling album because it was re-released in Europe a number of years back and has apparently sold well since that time.

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"Hunger-Strictly from Hunger-1968 US":

Originally from Portland, OR, Hunger moved to Los Angeles in the late '60s and became a minor entry in that city's psychedelic/hard rock scene, releasing a low-selling album in late 1968 that is sought after by psychedelic collectors.

Excellent moody garage psych, heavier than most organ-led groups with insistent rhythm and frequent fuzz bursts, quite trippy!!!

Highly Recommended to all collectors of 60's psychedlia.

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by request: "The Poppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?- 1969 Canada":

'Which Way You Goin' Billy?', released in 1969, was the first album from Vancouver based band 'The Poppy Family'. They scored their biggest hit with title track "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" (No. 1 in Canada and No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard charts). A great pop/psych album. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Personnel: Susan Jacks : vocals, & Petersen's bean pod-- Terry Jacks : guitar, vocals --Craig McCaw : guitar, sitar-- Satwant Singh : tablas, bongos, percussion

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"The Peppermint Rainbow -Will You Be Staying After Sunday-1969 US":

'The Peppermint Rainbow' were an sunshine- pop group from Baltimore, Maryland. They formed in 1967 under the name 'New York Times' and played local gigs in the mid-Atlantic states before changing their name to the 'Peppermint Rainbow' in 1968.

They were signed to Decca Records at the behest of Cass Elliot, who saw them play and sang with them on-stage when they performed a medley of Mamas & Papas tunes.

One of the many talented acts to pass quickly through the pop music firmament and disappear before most listeners could even learn their name, the 'Peppermint Rainbow' released one of the finest ever sunshine-pop records 'Will You Be Staying After Sunday', their sole full-length release.

Unlike so many other groups of their kind, this band was not a studio concoction, for years the members had gigged around their native Baltimore, honing and perfecting their special harmony-rich vocal blend. Their dedication and commitment to craft paid off when they recorded Sunday, which swoops and soars with joyous vocals and piping horns at every turn. Among the best tracks are "Green Tambourine" and "Run Like the Devil".

Members:
Bonnie Lamdin - vocals
Pat Lamdin - vocals
Doug Lewis - guitar
Tony Carey - percussion
Skip Harris - bass

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"Sir Douglas Quintet + 2 = (Honkey Blues) -1968 US":

Sir Douglas Quintet was a blues/rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.They came out of San Antonio, Texas .

In the middle sixties, the band relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and absorbed features of the San Francisco Sound, including the loud and lush electric-bass tone and freer percussion and guitar stylings.

Band members also explored musical elements specific to modern jazz at that time. For studio recordings, they sometimes added an extra musician or two, often to flesh out the brass dimension of a track's sound. Good examples of the ecstatic synthesis they achieved when they absorbed the new jazz and psychedelic elements into their music can be found on this first album.

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"Love Sculpture - Forms And Feelings- 1970 UK":

'Love Sculpture' was a British blues-rock band formed in Cardiff in 1966, led by Dave Edmunds quitar, plus bassist John Williams and drummer Rob 'Congo' Jones.

Edmunds' recording career began with the trio 'LOVE SCULPTURE', revealing EDMUNDS to be a guitar hero of extreme prowess. After a first single released under the name 'THE HUMAN BEANS' the band became 'LOVE SCULPTURE' .

In 1969 the band veered to a more "underground" direction to record their classic top ten hit "SABRE DANCE", a high speed cover version of the classical piece by Aram Khachaturian, championed by DJ John Peel. 'Love Sculpture' split up after a U.S. tour, having recorded two albums.

DAVE EDMUNDS in the 70's he became an icon recording for Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label and working with GEORGE HARRISON.

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"The Leathercoated Minds - A Trip Down The Sunset Strip -1967 US":

In the annals of sixties West Coast exploitation album-making, A Trip Down the Sunset Strip by the Leathercoated Minds is in a class all by itself. Serving up radically rearranged, cool covers of the era, red hot guitar instros (courtesy of J.J. Cale) and authentic sound effects from the Strip, it succeeds as the perfect time capsule of Los Angeles teeming teen scene, c.1966.

Producer and entrepreneur Snuff Garrett wanted to put together an album designed to give clueless, would-be hipsters an idea of what a night on Hollywood's fabled Sunset Strip was like, he'd already chosen a snazzy cover photo and needed some session cats to throw together a half-hour of music to go along with it.

Garrett hired a then little-known musician named J.J. Cale to produce the album and play lead guitar and Cale 's fleet but laid-back picking is all over this album. Cale overdubs a handful of Roger Mcguinn -style lead lines all over "Eight Miles High" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," he throws some psychedelia into "Over Under Sideways Down", "Psychotic Reaction" and "Sunshine Superman" and contributes some enjoyable original throwaways with titles like "Sunset and Clark" and "Pot Luck."

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"Five Day Rain -S/T-1970 UK":

'Five Day Rain' are a UK psych monster from the early Seventies with all the right moves. They formed in 1968 as Iron Prophet, a heavy trio formed by RICK SHARPE, CLIVE SHEPHERD and DICK HAWKES, changing into 'Five Day Rain' in 1970 with GRAHAM MAITLAND joining the band.

This album was never published and pressed only on acetate record, before the band split up. Great guitar work particularly on the long trippy instrumental "Rough Cut Marmalade". The "Five Day Rain" album contains some adventurous pop compositions often with a taint of psychedelia. Rick Sharpe, Shepherd and Graham Maitland then went on to form Studd Pump.

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"The Peanut Butter Conspiracy -For Children of All Ages - 1969 US":

'The Peanut Butter Conspiracy' was an American psychedelic pop/rock group in the 1960s.
They formed in Los Angeles in 1966 out of a folk-rock group, The Ashes, who included John Merrill (guitar/ vocals), Alan Brackett (bass/ vocals), Barbara "Sandi" Robison (vocals), Spencer Dryden (drums) and Jim Cherniss (guitar/ vocals).

The group had earlier been known as The Young Swingers, who released two obscure singles. The Ashes released one single in 1966 on the Vault label, "Is There Anything I Can Do?" written by Jackie DeShannon. Dryden then left The Ashes to replace Skip Spence in Jefferson Airplane, Robison left to give birth and the group temporarily disbanded.
Alan Brackett hooked up with a new guitarist, Lance Fent, and a new drummer, Jim Voigt, naming the new trio The Crossing Guards. Merrill and Robison rejoined and the five-piece band became 'The Peanut Butter Conspiracy'.

In 1968 they moved to the Warner Bros. Records subsidiary label Challenge, with a revamped line-up featuring ex-Clear Light organist Ralph Schuckett and drummer Michael Ney (Stevens), recording their final album "For Children of All Ages". 'The Peanut Butter Conspiracy' undertook a final tour and split up in about 1970.

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"Graham Bond - Love Is The Law-1969 US":

Graham John Clifton Bond (28 October 1937 in Romford, East London, England – 8 May 1974 at Finsbury Park station, Finsbury Park, North London, England) was an important, underappreciated figure of early British R&B, Graham Bond is known in the U.S., if at all, for heading the group that Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker played in before they joined Cream. Originally an alto sax jazz player in fact, he was voted Britain's New Jazz Star in 1961 he met Bruce and Baker in 1962 after joining Alexis Koerner's Blues Incorporated, the finishing school for numerous British rock and blues musicians.

By the time he, Bruce and Baker split to form their own band 'Graham Bond Organisation' in 1963. Bond was mostly playing the Hammond organ, as well as handling the lion's share of the vocals.

After the break-up of the last Organisation line-up, in the late '60s Bond moved to the U.S. recording two albums for the Pulsar label, with musicians including Harvey Brooks, Harvey Mandel and Hal Blaine.

"Love Is The Law" recorded in 1969, at TTG Studios Hollywood, USA. Bond plays organ,mellotron, bass and sax on this rare album and Hal Blaine drums.

Bond died under the wheels of a train at Finsbury Park station, London (most sources list the death as a suicide). He was only 36 years old.

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"S.O.U.L-Can You Feel It-1972 US":

From Cleveland, Ohio, the second album of Sounds Of Unity and Love (S.O.U.L).This was an instrumental and vocal group, featured Lee Lovett on base, Larry Hancock on organ, Walter Winston on guitar, Gus Hawkins on Sax, and Paul Stubblefield on drums and of course they all did vocals. The group wrote most of the songs, actually although one, which is "My Cheri Amour" by Stevie wonder.

A funky soul essential... Enjoy!!!

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"Funk Inc - Chicken Lickin -1972 US":

The group was founded in Indianapolis in 1969 by organist Bobby Watley, who recruited tenor saxman Eugene Barr, guitarist Steve Weakley, drummer Jimmy Munford and conga player Cecil Hunt.

Here is their second and excellent Acid Jazz album!!! Recommended.

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"Al Kooper - Kooper Session -1970 US":

Al Kooper instinctively creates the setting to allow Shuggie Otis to perform at his most amazing best. At only 15 years of age, Otis (guitar) is as potent a performer as Kooper(keyboards/guitars). The duo are able to manifest an aggregate of material whose success leans as much on Kooper's experience as it does on Otis' sheer inspired youthful energy.

Each track shows off Shuggie's comfort level with various types of blues and soul genres. Kooper and Otis lead a house band which includes: Stu Woods (bass), Wells Kelly (drums) and Mark Klingman (piano).

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"Alzo & Udine-C'mon And Join Us!- 1969 US":

This album's impossible to describe accurately and it's the only record we've seen by the enigmatic Latin-tinged duo Alzo & Udine! The groove has a tight jangly feel, with nice lows, very catchy hooks and amazing vocals from Alzo & Udine.The vocals are laid over spare arrangements that feature bass, guitar and conga vamping away in sort of a folk, soft -psychedelic /sunshine pop groove and although the overall approach is quite spare, the quality of the music is heavenly.
PERSONNEL :
Alzo (Alzo Fronte) Vocals, 12 Strings Acoustic Guitar, Percussion-Udine (Uddi Alinoor) Vocals, Percussion-Steve Margoshes Piano, Trombone-Emile Latimer Conga -Buddy Saltzman Drums
Eric Weissberg String Bass, Electric Bass, Banjo

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"Salloom Sinclair and The Mother Bear-S/T- 1968 US":

Originally from Texas, Roger Salloom and Robin Sinclair moved to Chicago to take a part on the local Blues scene. The first album, which is a very minor collectors' item, was recorded in there in 1968. The killer cut is a drug song called 'She Kicked Me Out Of The House Last Night After This One'. It features freaked-out vocals, a full organ sound and some good psychedelic guitar work. Salloom wrote seven of the eight tracks, the last one Griffin being authored by Robin Sinclair, a powerful female singer.

Personnel: ROGER SALLOOM vcls, gtr ROBIN SINCLAIR vcls DICK ORVIS piano and organ PHIL MONTGOMERY drms TOMM DAVIS ld gtr JOHN BOLLING bs

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"Strawberry Alarm Clock - Good Morning Starshine- 1969 US":

By the time the Strawberry Alarm Clock made their fourth and final album in 1969, the group had changed considerably in both lineup and sound from the one that recorded "Incense and Peppermints." . Although this album sounds way different from the previous three ,though much of their idiosyncratic brand of psychedelic pop remained on some of the tracks.

It is nonetheless a masterpiece. With the departure of George Bunnell and Randy Seol and marking the arrival of Jim Pitman and Gene Gunnells, this album has a decidedly harder sound too, with the rollicking long version of "Miss Attraction" and the bluesy "Changes".

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"Birmingham Sunday-A Message From Birmingham Sunday -1968 US":

This is a very rare (more than 1600 $) California album by a Nevada group.

Only three or four copies of this record are known to exist despite being on a real label and produced by Strawberry Alarm Clock guru Bill Holmer. It's a nice West Coast effort with male and female vocals well produced pop rock finally available thanx to the effort of the Akarma label. A real must have!

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"The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina- 1967 US":

The Left Banke was an American 1960s group, best remembered for their two hit singles, "Walk Away Renee" and "Pretty Ballerina."

The band often utilized so-called "baroque" string arrangements which led their music to be termed "Bach -rock". Their use of harmonies saw them compared to contemporaries such as The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Zombies and other British Invasion groups of the era.

The group was formed in 1965 and consisted of keyboardist/songwriter Michael Brown, guitarist George Cameron, bassist Tom Finn, drummer Warren David and singer Steve Martin (aka Steve Martin Caro).

Brown's father, a well-known session violinist, ran a studio in New York and took an interest in the band's music and acted as producer, manager, and publisher.After some initial sessions, David was ousted, with Cameron switching to drums and Jeff Winfield eventually being brought in on guitar. Meanwhile, Brown's song, "Walk Away Renee", was sold to Smash Records, a subsidiary of Mercury Records, and became a hit in late 1966.

"Pretty Ballerina," also written by Brown, charted in early 1967 and the Left Banke released an LP entitled, Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina, by which time, Rick Brand had replaced Winfield on guitar.

Rolling Stone has placed "Walk Away Renee" at number 220 in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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