Love Is Alive And Well by Kim Fowley, released on Tower in 1967.

The Book of Seth wrote on Head Heritage:

I believe this to be Kim Fowley’s first full-length album ever(.. that caught Fowley in full L.A. ‘flower power’ mode…mere months before his switch to ‘Canyon People’ culture.) But Fowley was a man on the scene and already used to fully embracing all things new in the swirling musical trends, promptly adapting them to his own mysteriously teenage agenda. By one listen — no, look — of this record, you’d think he invented ‘flower power’ single-handedly. There he is, grimly staring directly into the camera on the front cover, stuffed into a Spector-ish velvet jacket with his hands pressed together in prayer around a flower as flower children cavort in the background in the late evening summer sun...

“I’ll reappear
As a reindeer
Or a tin can full of
Ice cold beer…”

https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/the-book-of-seth/kim-fowley-love-is-alive-and-well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpEYzbKtMHQ&list=RDkpEYzbKtMHQ&start_radio=1

#KimFowley #FlowerPower #Psychedelia #Music #HeadHeritage

The Call is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in 1971 and released on the JAPO label...It is Waldron's only album as a bandleader to feature him playing the electric piano.

It was included as one of the 640 albums covered in the 2013 Japanese book Obscure Sound, written by Chee Shimizu. Shimizu praised the album for its "funky psychedelic groove" and interplay between Waldron's electric piano and Jimmy Jackson's organ - Wikipedia

“I feel if you look back too much,
you trip when you take a step forward.”
–Mal Waldron

"Over two long takes, averaging 20 minutes each, he and an all-star team transport us to a warm and inviting sound that is equal parts hard bop jam, psychedelic dream, and free jazz meditation." Tyran Grillo

https://ecmreviews.com/tag/mal-waldron/

https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/mal-waldron-the-call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOT0GdfMEeA&list=RDHOT0GdfMEeA&start_radio=1

#MalWaldron #ECM #Music #ElectricPiano #JazzRock #HeadHeritage #ObscureSound #CheeShimizu #Embryo #JAPO

Mad Shadows was the second album by Mott the Hoople. It was recorded in 1970 and released in the UK on Island Records in September 1970...

Julian Cope wrote on Head Heritage:

"This huge emotional reverberator drop kicks into life with the frantic five minutes of “Thunderbuck Ram”, in which Mick Ralphs’ raucous guitar riffs ring out across a Cheddar Gorge of chasmic reverb. The proto-Paranoid riff propells them all into the chorus with such venom that Guy Stevens’ record-this-live-at-all-costs mode is immediately confronted and challenged head-on by huge glaring errors, as minors and majors clash and buzz. Yet the song thunders on relentlessly, until the tail-out becomes a huge one chord burn-out and the first of Ian Hunter’s Velvets-meets-Jerry Lee Lewis high velocity piano attacks kicks in like cooking amphetamines into a hot curry."

https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/album-of-the-month/mott-the-hoople-mad-shadows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wImp2n9rQGs&list=RDwImp2n9rQGs&start_radio=1

#MottTheHoople #Music #JulianCope #HeadHeritage #GuyStevens #IslandRecords