PHILAMORE LINCOLN 1970 trippy psych LP reish Yardbirds
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NEAR MINT reissue of this overlooked 1970 LP by Philamore Lincoln, “The North Wind Blew South”, on Epic, reported to have some Yardbirds playing on it. The first line of this album is “My life was drifting” and that’s about as good a description for this album as I could give you. The man with the catchy name has come up with a brilliant late-night drifty floaty chill-out album as the Common People Capitol label rarity. The title track’s a genuine lazy psychedelic somnambulant masterpiece – so fragile and swirling, it’s probably never touched the ground, like the Left Banke’s luminous “There’s Gonna Be A Storm” or the Yarrdbirds’ “Turn to Earth.” The Left Banke parallel holds for the intricate baroque pop of “Early Sherwood”, which runs through a myriad of different melodies and tempos, flirting at times with more medieval folk music than ten men dressed as court jesters at a Rennaissance Faire. Best of all, Philamore “Hot Rod” Lincoln gives us some much-needed insight as to how music this ethereal and transcendent was created – “We played in the poppy fields, and the green has turned to gray.” Poppies may have played a role in this music, but there’s no gray to be found – this is a veritable color wheel explosion of sounds. Best viewed late at night, on a velvet backdrop under a black light. Epic label reissue WAS sealed, opened and played once, so cover/vinyl are in NEAR MINT shape.
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