1969 PROMO LOTHAR & THE HAND PEOPLE - SPACE HYMN psych

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RARE 1969 PROMO M- VINYL PSYCHEDELIC HEADS

  LOTHAR and the HAND PEOPLE

             SPACE HYMN          

                              USA - lime green Capitol Records - ST 247

RARE 1969 (PROMO) first pressing VINYL of the highly innovative garage-psych crew known as Lothar and the Hand People. This stoned longhaired crew made two highly collected albums, of which this, their second called "Space Hymn" is considered their best ... Lothar incidentally, is what they called their theremin -- an electronic device with a trippy sound (the Beach Boys use one on the opening notes of "Good Vibrations", that quivery sound) ... along with primitive Moog and basic garage band instruments, guitar, bass & drums, Lothar and The Hand People create a acidy mix of self compositions with edgy adventuristic apporach and delivery...

They were the first band to use synthesiser's on tour.

They were possibly being checked out by Chas Chandler when he was caught in traffic and missed their first show. He promised he would stay for their second show that evening but left after signing up Jimi Hendrix and being blown away by his show that evening.

At that point the world gained a Mind Blowing guitar player but lost an experimental group that would eventually give up after 2 albums.

So - Who is Lothar? Well Lothar is an IT. An instrument called a Theremin (An early electronic music instrument, invented, in the early decades of the 20th Century, by Russian engineer Leon Termen. You play it by moving your hands around it - the spatial location of one hand controls pitch, while the other controls volume. It was used to create weird sound effects in sci-fi films. Some play it as a proper instrument - and it still sounds weird 40 years later!

What kind of material were they doing that somebody could be so leery of? Nothing to be that worried about, just some cool songs, a sense of fun, and (inevitably, with Lothar bleeping and tinkling away) arrangements that were inherently wild and crazy. These guys predated even Tonto’s Expanding Headband, they achieved the first use of synthesizers by a viable rock band for anything more than window dressing. The Hand People not only used Lothar, they used him effectively, and they used him as if “Good Vibrations” had never even existed. He was as fully-integrated into the ensemble as the amplified jug of the 13th Floor Elevators, filling a somewhat similar role musically. If anybody, it was the Beach Boys who exploited the theremin for gimmickry, since after that one tune (and “Wild Honey” in ’68) it was never heard from again.

So it was the Hand People who did most of the pioneering here, in terms of a rock band using a synthesizer fulltime.  “Ha-Ho” was lyrically and musically worthy of Syd Barrett (who was just leaving the Floyd at the time, it’s doubtful that the Hand People ever heard him), even if you could never slip it anywhere into the Piper album. (“I get so mad I want to laugh/I laugh so hard I want to cry/Anger makes us sad, you see but it’s/Really all the same to me.”) “Machines” featured mechanistic sound effects that presaged Floyd’s “Money”.

However, Lothar + the People were more lighthearted and simply fun than any of the above (with the possible exception of Syd’s Floyd). Even when they got ominous (“Today Is Only Yesterday’s Tomorrow”) there was still a mischievous, adventurous streak to them. Nobody who’s ever heard “It Comes On Anyhow” will ever forget it--it’s a “sound collage” number a la “Revolution 9.” Which is not to say it didn’t have hooks (and to have hooks in a piece like this is quite an achievement), most notably the robot voices that would filter in and out of the mix, chanting “...it does-n’t mat-ter, it does-n’t mat-ter, it does-n’t matter, it does-n’t...” Then we hit one point where everything drifts down to a drone and a few basso profundo monks singing “Ommmm.... Ommmmmm.... Ommmmmmmmm....” which continues just long enough to lull you into the proper state if you’re at all attuned. At just the right moment--snip!--the tape splices into “...does-n’t mat-ter, it does-n’t mat-ter, it does-n’t matter...” How’s that for sacrilege? Except it wasn’t, really. Only a neophyte could get worked up over something like that; a true master would just giggle and note that “it really doesn’t,” and resume the chant.

This band believed so fervently in altered states that they did their utmost to share them even with people who weren’t doing the drugs. Their finest achievement was the final album’s final cut, “Space Hymn,” which was exactly that. With the possible exception of Ultimate Spinach, no psychedelic band ever closed the door on their career with such class. Innovations? No-one had ever attempted anything like this before: Droning, lethargic, haunting, yearning sounds suck you in for a minute or two, and then the spoken vocal begins...and (particularly if you’re listening lysergically, as most of their fans were), you’re halfway there before you realize that this is no mere poem being recited. You’re breathing deeply, visualizing oneness with the universe, every part of your body feels wonderful, so very, very relaxed...it’s a hypnotic induction!!

 Yes, I Love You
Today Is Only Yesterday's Tomorrow
 Midnight Ranger
Sister Lonely
 Wedding Night for Those Who Love
Heat Wave - Lothar & the Hand People, Holland
 Say "I Do"
What Grows on Your Head?
Sdrawkcab
 Space Hymn

CONDITION: The cover is VG++ with standard Capitol Records promotional circular drill at top right corner, otherwise light partial ring wear beginning but not yet near bad. The back cover with group photo is EXcellent! The seams are tight and sound and everything else is solid!

The vinyl is ALL clean and shiny M- ...very nice 

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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