SCARCE UK PInk Rimmed ISLAND 2nd QUINTESSENCE LP = EXOTIC ACID PROG PSYCH GEM
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Nov 9, 2014
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Nov 2, 2014
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EXOTIC TRIPPED-OUT ACID PSYCH/PROG '70s
QUINTESSENCE
\ UK - ISLAND (PINK RIMMED) - ILPS 9128
AGES old but still very collectible early '70s British issue on the pink rimmed Island Records label...housed in striking laminated center open gatefold cover...the 2nd LP by the legendary underground band QUINTESSENCE:::
Still in original plastic lined printed UK inner sleeve
Quintessence made five studio albums during the course of the late 60s and early 70s, with this self-titled second album making the biggest splash as it peaked at #22 in the UK album charts. There is some wonderful music here. The outstanding Only Love (I love Shiva's urgent vocals on this one), Twilight Zones, Sea Of Immortality and Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga are among Quintessence's finest ever songs with Rajam Ram's flute and Allan Mostert's guitar providing most of the instrumental excitement. The spacey multi-tracked flute instrumental Prism also represents a slight diversion from what has gone before. acid jamming and Cream-ish heavy blues rocking. Overall it revealed a kind of nice atmosphere not too far away from the one in early Krautrock albums. Their ecumenical hymn "Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga" which opens the album reflects very well the spirit of this record they dedicated "to Our Lord Jesus". This one's by far the only commercially sounding one on here belonging together with "Notting Hill Gate" and "Gange Mai" from their debut to the most memorable songs by them. "Sea of immortality" sounds considerably more sophisticated exploding into a jam session and here's the place where the hint to Cream becomes obvious. "High on Mt. Kailash" is an excerpt of a planned rock opera starting with birds singing and reveals droning sitar, some jingling temple bells and Shiva's haunting vocals that remind me at times a lot to Jim Morrison's. That one's quite a mysterious and fascinating track and certainly one of the highlights of this album. After that one there's a sudden skip to the live recorded very loud instrumental "Burning bush" featuring heavy jamming of wah-wah guitar, bass and drums. This track seams to be not very well placed between the previous one and the following spiritual "Shiva's Chant" and as Chris Welch suggests in his liner notes the close array of these contrasting performances presented here by the band might reflect in some way the contrast between the two aspects of their style. But in fact the rather imperfect structure of this album and its appearance as more of a compilation of songs than a coherent work is the only reason for considering it less essential. For the song material here is really substantial as demonstrated by the next two tracks "Prisms" and "Twilight Zones". The former one is all instrumental and consists of an improvised flute solo by Raja Ram with the addition of some great echo effects. This one segues seamlessly into the next track being an excellent ballad-type one dominated by Shiva's vocals and backed with flute and guitar. "Maha Mantra" is another hypnotic chant followed by the slow ballad "Only Love" whereas in "St. Pancras" the band presents us once again their live jam qualities. The short track "Infinitum" finally closes this rather strange album with a quite awkward droning sound. But overall such kind of hypnotic and droning sections which aren't not that much my "cup" usually are kept here quite shorted and I really don't find them disturbing at all. - Shambhu Babaji / bass, acoustic guitar- Dave Codling / rhythm guitar
- Shiva Shankar Jones / lead vocals, keyboards, hand drums
- Jake Milton / drums, percussion
- Alan Mostert / acoustic & elelectric guitars, bass
- Raja Ram / flute, percussion, bells
Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga
Sea of immortality
High on Mt. Kailash
Burning bush
Shiva's chant
Prisms
Twilight zones
Maha mantra
Only love
St. Pancras
Infinitus
CONDITION: The cover: Center open up gatefold cover is VG++ with light previous handling but well kept and still collectible ...has fresh original colors, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... collection worthy rarity ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated VG++ a few very nminor top surface wispy scuffs not affecting the excellent audio play grade. both UK Island labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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