Saturday 22 January 2011

Group 1850 -The Great Single Tracks



Group breakfast

This morning's listening, a psychedelic Dutch band from the late 60s/early 70s who are oft compared with Pink Floyd, The Mothers of Invention, and I can hear Beefheart, but if you are producing this kind of music at that time how would you not hear these influences/parallels? I say 'parallels' because although clearly not as well known as the others mentioned, they are a distinctive and important group. 'The Great Single Tracks' is, I believe, a collection from 1967-68, and is accessible and representative. 'Agremo's Trip to Mother Earth' is a more wholly psychedelic album, and I have other live and scattered tracks here and there that push listening tolerance, but always an engaging push and very often with superb guitar solos and other psychedelic musical paraphernalia.

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