FRACTION MOONBLOOD RARE HEAVY PSYCH PROG UNDERGROUND LP

$

610

ARTIST: Fraction
TITLE: Moonblood
LABEL: Angelus 5005
CONDITION: disc: super-clean VG+ (close to M-), and it plays incredibly well. Patrick Lundborg has stated "it should be pointed out that none of the reissues capture the sound of the original, which is a hi-fi recording with much presence and clarity...".

  cover: basically VG+ in appearance, but it has been amended & repaired. It was missing the left & right front-cover cardboard 'bars', adjacent to the die-cut in center, and has been repaired with close-matching cardboard. There is 9" of seam repair, and a faint name is written in the upper right corner of the front cover. The spine is split, and has been nicely repaired with a small strip of binding tape. The red plastic 'window' is original & in M- condition, as is the inner sleeve (it has a small crease near the opening on the lyrics side). Although this copy isn't completely authentic due to the repairs, it's in quite presentable condition, & has a very nice disc. It's up for auction with no reserve, beginning at a low starting price. This famed & justifiably well-loved heavy psych LP from the Los Angeles underground scene of the early-70's is a truly amazing arifact of it's era.

COMMENTS: FRACTION Moonblood 1971 original pressing on Angelus #5005, with die-cut plastic window cover, inner sleeve. Reportedly 1000 pressed.

Richard Iwanicki has written this about Fraction 'Moonblood' in the Acid Archives book:   "I would be very hard pressed to name a better private psychedelic LP than "Moonblood". Like the CA Quintet album this is that very rare thing, a concept album that works. Where the CA Quintet floods our minds with images of the various hells we create on earth, Fraction seize on the heaven we fail to create. I always feel my spine tingle when listening to this album, it never fails to astonish me. The vocalist Jim Beach sounds like he is undergoing agonized conflicts of faith, a righteous man, growling, snarling and finally screaming at a world where seekers after truth are downtrodden. The guitars are so overloaded with effects that they sound like a storm raging on the surface of another world. The drums have fantastic range, at times very delicate, at other times, pounding with raw energy. Every band member gives it all they have and all the songs were recorded as ‘one takes’. This really works as they sound very fresh and alive, like the band is playing right next to you. There is nothing righteous or preachy on the LP. You can feel the inner turmoil boiling over. The themes are broadly Christian, but with a very strong pagan element incorporated. The Son will come to birth and free Mother Earth. I find the lyrics deeply moving, spiritually uplifting and filled with apocalyptic vision: “Come out of her/ Come out of her/Embrace the Sons quiet warmth ever upward”. On the final track ‘This Bird (Sky High)’ Jim Beach is screaming the lyrics: “No clown on the ground/Tries to put me down/Since I found the Lord” Without the lyric sheet you could only guess at what he is saying, which only added to the mystery. ‘Eye of the Hurricane’ is amazing. Mind-bending lyrics spat and shouted over a haze of fuzz and wah-wah, it builds and builds to an impossible intensity, you wonder where else the vocal chords can go, the fingers of the guitar players must have been wrecked. The hazy image of the band on the front of the 1986 Austrian boot (which was the first reissue) showed a band that looked beyond cool, crazy shaggy burns, shades and leathers. They stare down at you like some crazed pack of angry bikers about to ink over your tattooes. “Extend your thumbs and burn the darkness out of her” -- indeed, Brother, indeed."  

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