mercoledì 20 marzo 2013

Ultimate Spinach - Behold & See 1968

Ultimate Spinach's second album The Penultimate Spinach (as they would make only one more LP) is a slightly more subdued continuation of the derivative psychedelia in their debut. Again, it's like a hack take on West Coast groups. There's Country Joe & the Fish in Ian Bruce-Douglas' electric keyboards (which don't play anything as good as his solos on "Sacrifice of the Moon" from the first album); Jefferson Airplane-like female vocals (by guest singer Carol Lee Britt) and songwriting on "Where You're At"; some Quicksilver Messenger Service-type guitar arrangements on "Mind Flowers"; a melody and vocal reminiscent of Kaleidoscope's "Keep Your Mind Open" on "Fragmentary March of Green"; and more. Songwriter Bruce-Douglas' lyrics are unintentional hippie parodies without any irony or humor, whether solemnly aspiring to a beatnik state ("take a trip to the center of your mind") or indicting the straight world ("he has an ulcer in his brain, from thinking of how to divorce his wife"). When the album turns to social critiques, it's uncertain whether the band is trying to mimic the Mothers of Invention without the wit, or whether they're unwittingly embodying the very kinds of groups whom the Mothers took the piss out of on We're Only in It for the Money. allmusic.com

01.Gilded Lamp of the Cosmos 3:04
02.Visions of Your Reality 5:52
03.Jazz Thing 6:42
04.Mind Flowers 9:40
05.Where You're At 3:14
06.Suitegenesis of Beauty (4 Parts) 9:48
07.Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse 5:59
08.Fragmentary March of Green 6:39
09.Mind Flowers 9:34
10.Fragmentary March of Green 6:36

Ultimate Spinach :
Ian Bruce-Douglas - Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboards, Wood Flutes,Vocals
Barbara Hudson  Vocals, Guitar
Geoffrey Winthrop  Lead Guitar, Sitar, Vocals
Richard Nese  Bass
Keith Lahteninen - Drums,Vocals
Carol Lee Britt - Guest Vocals

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