Frega Stark

Brilliant and weird formation from Levittown (Long Island, NY), mixing early progressive with hard rock, heavy psychedelia, jazz, and not scared of experimenting.
This Long Island outfit realized this sole album in 1971. A sextet whose musical skills are great. Very hard guitars and obscured lyrics are reminiscent of Black Sabbath's and Black Widow's, to cite two bands oh the same era. But this band adds one more quality: a textured femmale voices that gives more deep to the melody. There are two or three killers tracks: All of Them Witches, Sins and Iceberg; a mid tempo track: Look Again; and a ballad: Wasted Time to almost complete this hidden treasure from the early seventies.

Brilliant and weird formation from Levittown (Long Island, NY), mixing early progressive with hard rock, heavy psychedelia, jazz, and not scared of experimenting.
This Long Island outfit realized this sole album in 1971. A sextet whose musical skills are great. Very hard guitars and obscured lyrics are reminiscent of Black Sabbath's and Black Widow's, to cite two bands oh the same era. But this band adds one more quality: a textured femmale voices that gives more deep to the melody. There are two or three killers tracks: All of Them Witches, Sins and Iceberg; a mid tempo track: Look Again; and a ballad: Wasted Time to almost complete this hidden treasure from the early seventies.

Brilliant and weird formation from Levittown (Long Island, NY), mixing early progressive with hard rock, heavy psychedelia, jazz, and not scared of experimenting.
This Long Island outfit realized this sole album in 1971. A sextet whose musical skills are great. Very hard guitars and obscured lyrics are reminiscent of Black Sabbath's and Black Widow's, to cite two bands oh the same era. But this band adds one more quality: a textured femmale voices that gives more deep to the melody. There are two or three killers tracks: All of Them Witches, Sins and Iceberg; a mid tempo track: Look Again; and a ballad: Wasted Time to almost complete this hidden treasure from the early seventies.

The works on this album were written between 1935 and 2019 by four Hungarian composers: Béla Bartók, who was the teacher of Sándor Veress, who taught György Ligeti, who in turn was an early but formative influence on Péter Eötvös. Their compositions all share the idea of a dialogue between cultured and popular elements, between a Western music tradition and folk music, particularly of Eastern Europe. This idea was formulated in the early 20th century by Bartók himself, who considered the use of folk elements in a piece of art music not only as a tool to revitalize the Classical tradition but also as a mean to unite different cultures.