Fuzz Acid & Flowers:
United Artists managed to sign several good groups (Thunder and Roses, Boffalongo, Pookah for example) but never gave them much promotion. Led by Mark Mangold who composed their material, Valhalla is another of these forgotten groups and their album deserves to be rediscovered. It mixes heavy rock, prog and psych with a predominant organ and powerful vocals on tracks like Psychedelic Minds Going Nowhere and Overseas Symphony.
Mark Mangold would later play with American Tears. ~ (Stephane Rebeschini)
01. Hard Times 4:35
02. Conceit 4:55
03. Ladies In Waiting 4:08
04. I'n Not Askin 6:21
05. Deacon 4:27
06. Heads Are Free 3:54
07. Roof Top Man 4:17
08. Jbt 5:49
09. Conversation 3:33
10. Overseas Symphony 6:28
genre: heavy zeuhl
state: france
quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, covers)
time: 74:35 size: 475 mb
progarchives: Utopic Sporadic Orchestra were occasionally formed around Jannick TOP (bass) as a temporary overnight Zeuhl project for a jazz festival named Nancy Jazz Pulsations upon October 17, 1975, by plenty of Zeuhlists. They had played a twenty-minute suite "De Futura" in the festival and released as a live album (with Jannick's other live sessions or rehearsals as bonus tracks) named "Nancy 75" in 2001 via Jannick's own label Utopic Records (with a credit 'Jannick Top Presente' upon the sleeve!).
1. De Futura (Rehearsal - 16 Oct 75 Nancy) (23:40)
2. De Futura (Live - 17 Oct 75 Nancy) (25:12)
Bonus Tracks 3. KMX E XII Opus 3 (6 Feb 74 Bremen) (6:33)
4. La Musique Des Sphères / Part 2 (31 Oct 76 Paris) (10:00)
5. KMX E XII Opus 3 (Holland 74) (8:00)
genre: heavy prog
state: uk
quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, covers)
time: 66:03 size: 438 mb
wikipedia:
Fourth album released by British rock band Uriah Heep. The album helped the band break to fame and also gave the band its face. It has become a major success worldwide by selling 3 million copies.
The original vinyl release was a gatefold sleeve, the front of which was designed by Roger Dean and contains a hidden erotic image of male and female genitalia. The inner of the gatefold had pictures of the band and notes by Ken Hensley, whilst the LP itself was housed in a liner on which were printed the lyrics.
The songs "The Wizard" and "Easy Livin'" were released as singles in the United Kingdom and North America, as well as many other markets. "Easy Livin'" entered the US Top 40 at No. 39, making it Heep's first and only American hit. "Easy Livin'" was also a mega hit in the Netherlands and Germany, countries which were becoming a strong market for the band.
New Zealander Gary Thain, at the time a member of Keef Hartley Band, joined Uriah Heep as a permanent member halfway through another American tour. "Gary just had a style about him, it was incredible because every bass player in the world that I've ever known has always loved his style, with those melodic bass lines", Box commented later. Thus the 'classic' Uriah Heep was formed and, according to biographer K. Blows, "everything just clicked into place".
Also, the addition of Lee Kerslake (a former bandmate of Hensley's in The Gods and Toe Fat) on drums solidified the rhythm section into a world class powerhouse.
genre: blues
state: uk
quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, cover)
time: 39:30 size: 148 mb
Tapestry of Delights:
Previously known as The Late, this was a pleasant country/folk band, who gradually became rockier and perhaps less interesting as a result. The Going Home 45 was a private pressing. The first Big T 45, P.F. Sloan, was a tribute to the American songwriter and, like flip side, is excellent. Dave Gilmour (of Pink Floyd) played on some of their albums and produced some of their material.
Ferrier later went on to Co-Co and Smith later played in Thumbs. ~ (Mike Warth/Jim McMaster)
genre: real clear uk beat
state: uk
quality: lossless (ape, cue, log, cover)
time: 39:30 size: 148 mb
Tapestry of Delights (thank our Prophet - great Vernon Joynson):
This was one of Merseyside's very first rock groups who formed in Wallasey in 1961. Some members had previously been in an even earlier combo, Bob Evans and The Five Shillings. Still fronted by Evans, they used nicknames (though 'Mushy' Cooper was the only one to survive the passage of time) and lived up to their name by turning up to gigs in a hearse, black frock coats, embalmers' trousers and black top hats.
Before the end of 1961, a kidney ailment forced Evans to leave and Bugs Pemberton was his replacement. The next few months were spent building up a good live reputation playing powerful covers of US soul, R&B and rock'n'roll hits. Their most popular song seems to have been an obscure pounding dance number, originally recorded by Nat Kendrick and The Swans called Mashed Potatoes.
Early in 1962, Cooper left to join Faron's Flamingoes and a certain Jackie Lomax came on board from another Wallasey group, Dee and The Dynamites. They sometimes backed Beryl Marsden and a black vocal group, The Chants, who did lots of Coasters songs.
After McManus left to join The Renegades, they had their first of a series of spells in Hamburg. They were also signed by Pye but none of their three 45s really captured their exciting live sound on disc, although Just A Little Bit was a minor hit. They were mostly cover versions. Stupidity was a Soloman Burke song.
They later abbreviated their name to The 'Takers, but despite an appearance on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' failed to achieve a breakthrough.
genre: heavy psych, proto heavy rpi
state: italy
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, covers)
time: 47:13 size: 312 mb
ItalianProg:
For contractual reasons, the musicians from Nuova Idea. But surely the mastermind behind them was composer Gian Piero Reverberi, who was also the producer of Le Orme and wrote most of the tracks on these albums under the nickname Ninety.
Like Planetarium, Blue Phantom or Fourth Sensation these were Italian groups whose members were never listed on the covers. The Underground Set were often thought to be an English group, their first album having been issued in many European countries. It's interesting to notice that the group has been mentioned as English in Vernon Joynson's Tapestry of Delight book.
But in an interview with Paolo Siani on the Italian Musikbox magazine, the drummer was one of the first to reveal that the musicians playing on this band's two albums were in fact Nuova Idea, as Radio Records (the label on which the first album and the singles appeared) was distributed by their label Ariston at the time.
Mainly instrumental, with just some choral vocal parts, the albums are typical of a late 60's organ-led psychy pop sound and some tracks were used as TV film themes. The Psycheground LP from 1971 is similar, featuring five instrumental tracks that show the inspiration of the british 60's rhythm & blues.
Dreams Fantasies & Nightmares:
This Auckland band evolved out of the Underground Blues Band, which had formed in 1965. The name change came in 1966 and The Underdogs signed to Zodiac Records at the tail end of '66.
They quickly established a reputation as a wild live act and in Harvey Mann had one of the best blues guitarists in New Zealand. After the release of their debut 45 See Saw they appeared on the national T.V. pop show 'C'mon!'. Soon after Mann departed to The Brew. Lou Rawnsley replaced him and his fuzzy guitar line was a characteristic of their follow-up, a cover of John Mayall's Sitting In The Rain. Apart from being a huge local hit the single made the National Top 20.
In 1967, their hot reputation as a live band earned them a slot on the touring version of the 'C'mon! Show' when the frequently brought the house down. At the end of the year they decided to relocate to Wellington, which led to the departure of Neil Edwards to Le Frame. He was replaced by former Breakaways' member Dave Orams, who in turn gave way to ex-Bitter End man George Barris. The move to Wellington proved a bad one 'cos they found it hard to get work. In early 1968 they disintegrated. Neil Edwards also did a stint with Human Instinct and then Headband.
That's not the end of the story, however, later that year Murray Grindlay and Harvey Mann (both in The Brew) decided to reform the band in Auckland. Doug Thomas had also been in The Breakaways. Rawnsley designed the cover for their album then left. His replacement was Chaz Burke-Kennedy, but their cover of Frank Zappa's You Can Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance had to be retitled There Will Come A Time to satisfy the censors, but it didn't sell well and conflict over musical direction (or lack of it) saw the band in limbo again. There was one further brief reformation in the late seventies.
Murray Grindlay went on to play in several other bands and write jingles. Neil Edwards still works the pub circuit. Harvey Mann moved to Australia. Doug Thomas runs a successful stereo importing business.
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