Side One:
One Fine Morning
Stairway to Heaven
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
Black Magic Woman
Oye Como Va
Side Two:
Prelude to Tears
You're Gone
Slipping Into Darkness
Evil Ways here
Former Blues Image frontman Mike Pinera's second solo album, released in 1979, was very much the son of its predecessor Isla, a very laid-back collection that eschewed his earlier, hard-driving blues in favor of a more late-night feel. But with the much-loved "Goodnight My Love" on board, it would be hard to say he'd chosen the wrong direction. The other key highlight is "Here It Comes Again," a tremendous number that apparently features an uncredited songwriting contribution from Captain Beyond's Larry Reinhardt. Elsewhere, "I Am the Bubble" and "Looking at the Light" are eminently likeable, but too much of Forever seems to be reaching toward the same kind of vibe that too many other singer/songwriters of the era were touting, when what Pinera's audience really wanted was for him to start letting rip once again. Where was Iron Butterfly when we needed them?
Liquid Sound Co.* – Acid Music For Acid People
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Psychedelic Rock, Experimental
Year:
2011
Tracklist
Liquid Sound Freedom
Free Of Agitation
Wow Man,
Morning Sun
Unfolding
Preparation For The Psychedelic Eucharist
/ Inside The Acid Temple
Bongo Rock
Genre:
Rock, Funk / Soul
Style:
Surf, Funk, Disco
Year:
1973
Tracklist
Let There Be Drums2:38
Apache4:54
Bongolia2:14
Last Bongo In Belgium6:55
Dueling Bongos2:56
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida7:42
Raunchy '733:23
Bongo Rock '732:35
The Return Of The Incredible Bongo Band
Genre:
Funk / Soul
Style:
Funk
Year:
1974
Tracklist
Kiburi2:15
When The Bed Breaks Down, I'll Meet You In The Spring2:29
Sing, Sing, Sing4:09
Pipeline3:45
Wipeout4:25
Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley, Your Tie's Caught In Your Zipper2:39
Topsy Part I
Topsy Part II
Topsy Part III6:04
Sharp Nine3:11
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction3:56
Got The Sun In The Morning And The Daughter At Night1:56
Highly influenced by the work of Paul Buff, Art Laboe and Preston Epps, The Incredible Bongo Band was a faux group (essentially just a studio project), formed by Pride record executive Michael Viner to create theme music for the film "The Thing With Two Heads". Following the success of the project, Viner then used MGM studio downtime to record funk-influenced covers of hits, using pick-up musicians. Although the "group" never existed as a true band, a team of individuals was assembled for a publicity photo. The group's best known work is probably their percussion-centric cover of "Apache", originally a worldwide hit in 1960 by The Shadows. It was later sampled heavily by hip hop artists (and, over a decade later, drum 'n' bass artists) to become one of the most popular sampled percussion breaks of all time.
The Art Laboe and Preston Epps instrumental "Bongo Rock" was also covered by Viner's pick-up outfit as "Bongo Rock '73" (a minor US chart hit), along with a cover of "Let There Be Drums", much influenced by the "surf-style" treatments of Paul Buff's drum-oriented works.
The Underground Set – The Underground Set
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Psychedelic Rock
Year:
1970
Tracklist
Arcipelago
Emisfero
Atollo
Longitudine Est
36° Parallelo
Samba Natalizia
Underground In Blue
Shake 26
Equatore
7° Meridiano
Emisfero
The Underground Set – War In The Night Before
Genre:
Rock, Funk / Soul, Stage & Screen
Style:
Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Funk, Stoner Rock
Year:
1971
Tracklist
War In The Night Before3:40
Top Invocation2:55
Cronic Illness3:15
Cool Paradise2:24
Car Driving2:59
Una Lettera3:21
Hard To Go Up3:56
Oblivion2:26
Libutum2:45
Hot Paradise3:00
Useless Obsession2:50
Hopeless Train2:44 HERE
The Underground Set
Profile:
Behind the Underground Set name hid, for contractual reasons, the musicians from Nuova Idea. But surely the mastermind behind them was composer Gian Piero Reverberi, who was also the producer of Le Orme.
The Underground Set were often thought to be an English group, their first album having been issued in many European countries. It's interesting to notice that the group has been mentioned as English in Vernon Joynson's Tapestry of Delight book.
But in an interview with Paolo Siani on the Italian Musikbox magazine, the drummer was one of the first to reveal that the musicians playing on this band's two albums were in fact Nuova Idea, as Radio Records (the label on which the first album and the singles appeared) was distributed by their label Ariston at the time.
Mainly instrumental, with just some choral vocal parts, the albums are typical of a late 60's organ-led psychy pop sound and some tracks were used as TV film themes.
This is the second and final album singer-songwriter Tony Kosinec released on Columbia Records. He'd put out more, but they'd be on different labels and in the future.
From what I can gather, Kosinec was a New York-based musician and judging from his music, he was sort of a proto-Billy Joel or more lightweight James Taylor. As with Taylor, Peter Asher produced this album.
However, unlike with Taylor, the album didn't yield any hits. The jaunty, old-timey "48 DeSoto" was the single, but it didn't chart despite its Beach Boys-inspired chorus. Still, like a lot of the tunes here, it's pretty catchy.
This album was reissued briefly on CD in Japan in 1995, but is now out-of-print. Kosinec seems to have gotten into scoring works for film and television later on.
The Sufi Choir formed in 1969 among the followers of Samuel L. Lewis. Murshid Lewis died unexpectedly in January 1971. The Sufi Choir became to a large extent a response to his death. Their often ecstatic music was a transmission of Murshid’s Sufi-based mysticism, energy and universalism.
