Christian Yoga Church TURN ON monster private psych
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Memorare Recordings ES-S101, Turn On! Music For The Hip At Heart, recorded by the "classical yoga students" of Virginia City, Nevada’s Christian Yoga Church in 1967. Incredible, and incredibly rare, document that shows up on a lot of want lsts.
Will of showandtellmusic says:
Remarkable record produced by the Christian Yoga Church as a meditation aid for their members. All-improvised jam session with religious chanting, reed organ, and an array of weird percussion devices. There were many religious orders in California during the '60s & '70s who produced similar, Eastern influenced LPs, but none sound quite like this. "Turn On" was an attempt at blending ancient, religious Yogi music with modern psychedelic sounds and was carried out by several, um... inexperienced musicians. The session was organized for spontaneity. One at a time, church members entered the recording room, selected an instrument, and joined in. No music was prepared in advance. And the instrument selection, unknown to members, was very odd. Participants manned reindeer bells, metal bowls, toy flutes, French horns, kazoos, and waterfalls. The end product is bumbling, magical, and drenched in a dense psychedelic atmosphere. Absolutely outstanding!
And lysergia.com comments thusly:
This is as true psychedelia as you ever can find -- about halfway through side 1 the music subsides and we are treated to the sound of running water, not from some lame sound effects library but there and as it happened, although I have no idea how it was achieved -- because you can tell that it is a LOT of water running. The intensity builds and dissolves, builds and dissolves, a gigantic gong chimes when you least expect it, and the spooky Twilight Zone Search Party reed organ is always sneaking around in the background. It's impossible to review this music in a structured way -- like "the plastic flute player is good, but the guy knocking on a table sounds unrehearsed" -- but trying to gauge the acid flow of the 50 minutes, I would say that some of the most impressive vibes of all can be found at the beginning of side 1, opening an easy-access door into "Turn On!" for anyone looking for esoteric kicks on a world-class level.
Record is Vg+ and plays with light surface noise and scattered ticks, but no pops or clicks.
Jacket has some wrinkling to the paste-overs on the front and back(see photos)
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