Psychedelic Rock

The Folkswingers feat. Harihar Rao ‎- Raga Rock
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC (tracks): 199 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Fallout # FOCD2039 | Country/Year: UK 2007, 1966
Genre: Rock, Folk | Style: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock

"This heady blend of instrumental pop covers, fuzzed-up guitars and sitar is a kitsch blast from start to finish. Featuring the cream of LA's session players alongside sitar virtuoso Harihar Rao (Ravi Shankar's senior disciple), it was originally released in 1966 and makes its long-overdue CD debut here, showing itself to be the first and best ‘sitarsploitation’ album ever recorded."

Over the past 20 years Australian progressive/alternative/underground rock of the early 1970s has taken on a huge cult collector following throughout the world. This is particularly so in Europe, where vast sums are paid for scarce original vinyl albums by such bands as Kahvas Jute, Galadriel, The Masters Apprentices, Fraternity, Blackfeather, Company Caine, Tamam Shud, Pirana, and New Zealand's Dragon - outfits which forged a distinctive Oz Rock sound that would eventually be embraced by an international mass audience.

Peter Lindahl is a well known Swede in the psychedelic underground scene. Being a multiinstrumentalist and performed with the likes of In The Labyrinth, a painter and true dedicated hippie of the old school. For the first time, Transubstans gathers his 70's recordings into a unique compilation from the time when bands like Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pugh Rogefeldt and Pink Floyd were the main influences. The album consists of 16 impressively well written pop-psych songs. You'll hear heavy folk influences, flower power vibes, bits of novelty song, and all very psychedelicized. Peter played all the instruments on the album except for some assistance on a few tracks, chiefly his brother Niklas and father Sven.

Nearly everyone in the world can rattle off the great African-American musical forms. Jazz, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop, house, gospel. One influential genre is always left off of the list: a folk music known as rock n’ roll. Rock n’ roll was a term originally coined to market the white-friendly version of a genre that already existed; prior to 1965, the line between rock n’ roll and R&B was thin: Ike Turner recorded and released “Rocket ‘88’ ” in 1951 and, while its Chess Records release reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart, it is regarded by many as the first rock n’ roll record.