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ADJEEF

'IEKK! I'M A ....FREAK' c/w  SQUAFRECKLEMAN COMES BACK'  ( 1967 ACTION ORIGINAL AC 1003)

HOLY GRAIL OF DUTCH PSYCHEDELIC FREAKBEAT IN NEAR MINT CONDITION!!

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Along with Provo demonstrations and white bicycles, this single is a perfect aural snapshot of 1967 underground Amsterdam. Under the run-on credit line “Adjeef The Poet, His Girl(s), His Friend(s) And The Rest of the World(s)” Amsterdam radio DJ Ad Visser adopted the turned-on moniker ‘Adjeef The Poet’ for this one-off 1967 freak out single. Sucking in inspiration nearly exclusively from side four of The Mothers of Invention’s double “Freak Out” LP, from which Ad condensed all of the necessary ingredients ranging from free-form vocals, percussion patterns, theremin effects, indecipherable and nonplussing-as F**K  lyrics into bizarre sound-shapes that consequently sloshed all over both sides of this single, with titles freaky down to their toenails -- “Ieek! I’m A...Freak” and “Squafreckleman Comes Back.”

The topside “Ieek! I’m A Freak” sees Groep 1850 sounding like a Tax-free Outsiders as they kick up with a robust Who ’66-era beat and an opening fuzz bass that rends and nearly splits the whole thing in half before Adjeef The Freaky Poet begins calmly intoning lyrics describing disjointed imagery and various states of mind against the background sonic underpinnings of spindly electric guitar, outrageous fuzz bass and ultra-tight drumming into the unflagging linear progression of the backing group’s ‘Muziek Expres Op Art Sound ’66 Serie’ style. And to top it all off are constant waves of rising, falling and screeching theremin that, like the “rising mushrooms growing in your brain” Adjeef is going on about, will “always come back again.” And since Ad’s addled, Dutch-hewn English received pronouncements are soon “dancing on your nerve vibration”, even the line “Sunday nights you give parties/Where your friends listen to The Moonglows” is made to seem the ultimate psychedelic experience; especially where the last word steps waywardly into ersatz echo chamber with a singly repeated “MOONGLOW” (What ARE these “slobbery words dancing on your nerve vibration,” anyway?!!) By track’s end, Adjeef can only conclude that “You find yourself a freak,” thereby causing everything to wildly whirl off course: the theremin starts cutting through the walls of time at a variety of pitches while the band jacks up the tempo for the track’s moment of truth is finally at hand. The drums kick off furiously, rattling onwards and propelled by racket-strumming guitar forward until a final theremin swoop lurches the whole mess to an abrupt halt.

“Squafreckleman Comes Back” is a totally different scene from the A-side: about as different as the first three minutes of The Mothers’ “The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet” are from the last three of “It Can’t Happen Here.” Which is to say they are poles apart and unsurprisingly: compare favourably with both sides of this single as they were in all certainty the blueprint Adjeef used to subsequently freak out upon so freely. And there is what sounds to be an extended crew present on the free-form “Squafreckleman Comes Back.” Opening with trilling and shrilling horns that blare out in salute, this quickly subsides and falls directly into a distant percussion line and then the entry of Adjeef intoning: “Where is Squafreckleman?” No response from Squafreckleman, so he’s dropping to his knees and imploring for his return, and soon Adjeef The Poet transforms into Ad-Lib The Moron as he hastily pleads and rants off at the mouth with a series of rapid fire somersaulting avowals in time to the ensuing rhumba line: “Come back! Come back! Please come back! I need you all the time! Oh, where are you now? Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I see the red fork in his eyes! I see the red fork...The red fork in his eyes!” as all the while buoyant Jew’s harp recoil and spring, shrill operatic wails, background swamp gas vocals and all of Adjeef’s girls, friends and (seemingly) the rest of the world are a massed jumble of rhythm and voices: singing, freaking, repeating Adjeef’s main vocal or content to just holler insensibly in the background as chants rise and fall. The track then breaks off to run backward with a series of terrifying streaking shrieks...and the near-rhumba rhythm punches back in, only this time far quieter. Of course, it starts to build with more and more vociferous pleas for Squafreckleman as further vocal embellishments break out across the darkened studio as whispering, crying or go “Woo! Woo! Woo!” in the background jumble together. At this point, “I remember, doot-doot/I remember doot-doot/they had a swimming pool” could barge in at any time but instead ends with a final “woo!” and low, basso profundo punctuation.

click on the link below and listen to 'iekk! i'm a....freak'

http://www.inn.nl/~maniac45/ad.mp3

 CONDITION:

SLEEVE =near MINT

RECORD/VINYL  = near MINT

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