MINT PETE BROWN BATTERED ORNAMENTS A MEAL Prog Psych

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 SEALED 500 made long rare PROG PSYCH UK COLLECTIBLE!

                   PETE BROWN

                                                                    AND HIS

    BATTERED ORNAMENTS

 A MEAL YOU CAN SHAKE HANDS WITH IN THE DARK

                            UK - Timeless Records - 0698

SEALED (never opened)

SCARCE and total deluxe UK gatefold issue of only 500 repressed from 24 years ago, sold out in a minute back then...only getting rarer by the day...

An outstanding 1969 full blown Prog/Psych affair with way-out highly immaginative lyrics and a voice to match by Pete Brown who was a songwriter for CREAM, writing their best songs... With The Battered Ornaments, Brown collects a more than formidable tight crew, including the famous professional guitar slinger Chris Spedding unloading a slew of his famous splattering leads among the ongoing frey.

Pete Brown's debut album may not have been as accessible as those of Cream (for whom he often helped write material) or even the early Jack Bruce (for whom he continued to collaborate as a songwriter). There are similarities, however, though more to Bruce's solo work than to Cream. For one thing, there are those lyrics, which are of a far higher standard than heard on most rock songs, ranging from ominous impressionism to take-out-the-piss political satire. Then there's Brown's voice, which rather resembles a gruff Jack Bruce, and is effective though certainly not as smoothly melodic as Bruce's vocals. And then there's the music, which grew out of the same jazz-blues-rock community that gave birth to the Graham Bond Organisation, Cream, and Colosseum. In fact, two other alumni of that scene, Bond (on organ) and Dick Heckstall-Smith (on reeds), are among the supporting players, as is a young Chris Spedding. There are also unusual psychedelic and Middle Eastern accents here and there in the arrangements, though tasteful and subdued. Because there aren't the pop hooks of the songs Brown had a hand with in Cream, and because Brown's voice is not that of your average rock frontman, it's not something that ever got a wide audience. But it has its rewards for those looking for something a little more avant-garde and intellectual than much late-'60s psychedelic-prog rock, including the very grooving "Dark Lady" (which musically resembles Graham Bond's work), "Station Song" (where the likeness to some of Jack Bruce's more mysterious tracks is highest), and the beguiling downward-spiral melody of "Rainy Taxi Girl." Some of the bluesy tunes are more functional, but the 12-minute "The Politician" — not the same as the Cream classic "Politician" penned by Brown and Bruce, though there are similarities — is a highlight, as a very witty and scathing anti-establishment spoken word poem segueing into an off-kilter blues-rocker that exposes the "politician" for the lecherously hypocritical geezer he is.

CONDITION: STILL SEALED...the seal has come undome along the spine but clearly tight and never opened...a perfect flat, square and sharp collectible

                keeper copy!

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