oe: Amazing band!!! Don't you hear something from Lothar's Machines in Floyd's Money?
Fuzz Acid & Flowers:
This was one of the most interesting groups to emerge from America in this era. They moved to New York to record their two albums. Lothar was actually the name they gave to the theremin, which, together with two moog synthesisers, Ampex tape decks, keyboards and a linear controller characterised the group's sound.
Their debut album was reissued in the U.K. a few years ago and is consequently not difficult to obtain. On most tracks like This May Be Goodbye and That's Another Story, the theremin's influence is confined to short intros to fairly conventional two or three minute compositions. However, three exceptions to this are the weird Machines, the unusual Sex And Violence and final track It Comes On Anyhow - which is a foretaste of some of the psychedelic craziness which appeared on their follow-up album.
On Space Hymn, the theremin and other electronic gadgetry is generally used to better effect. The album is composed of a mixture of weird material and more commercial numbers, such as Yes! I Love You, Heatwave, and Say I Do (which were issued as singles). The lyrics are often full of the usual hippie cliches. For example, What Grows On Your Head? is, as one might expect, romanticising about the freedom and virtues of long hair, while Midnight Ranger sounds like the story of a ranger who has had one trip too many! Some of the other material is particularly weird, notably keyboard instrumental Wedding Night For Those Who Love, Sdrawkcab and Today Is Only Yesterday's Tomorrow. The title track, however, reaches new heights of craziness when the vocalist sets about hypnotising his audience! Certainly an interesting album, this is recommended. Apart from Heatwave, all the material was written by the band and you won't hear anything more unusual from this era than that title track.
Kim King went on to become a producer and sound engineer, notably working with Holy Moses and Colin Winski. ~ (Vernon Joynson/Stephane Rebeschini)
cd1: 1969 - Space Hymn
01. Yes I Love You 3:18
02. Today Is Only Yesterday's Tomorrow 5:22
03. Midnight Ranger 3:22
04. Sister Lonely 2:42
05. Wedding Night For Those Who Love 4:29
06. Heatwave 3:38
07. Say 'I Do' 2:57
08. What Grows On Your Head 3:13
09. Sdrawkcab (Backwards) 3:52
10. Space Hymn 7:12
cd2: 1968 - Presenting ... Lothar & The Hand People
01. Machines 2:38
02. This Is It 2:50
03. This May Be Goodbye 2:36
04. That's Another Story 2:10
05. Kids Are Little People 2:25
06. Ha (Ho) 3:35
07. Sex and Violence 2:51
08. Bye Bye, Love 2:28
09. Milkweed Love 2:56
10. You Won't Be Lonely 2:35
11. Woody Woodpecker 0:48
12. It Comes On Anyhow 3:19
13. Paul, In Love 2:58
14. L-O-V-E (Ask For It By Name) 2:18
15. Rose Colored Glasses 2:30
16. Comic Strip 2:37
17. Every Single Word 2:08
18. Have mercy (Mercy, Mercy, Mercy) 1:54
19. Let the Boy Pretend 2:11
JOHN EMELIN vcls
TOM FLYE perc
RUSTY FORD bs
KIM KING moog, synth, gtr
PAUL CONLY keyb'ds, moog
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