FRIENDSOUND Joyride V Rare Orig 1969 US RCA Acid Psych Freakout Garage Rock

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Joyride

Very Rare original US LP released on RCA Records in 1969. 1st US pressing on the Orange RCA Label.

Released on the RCA brand in 1969, Joyride never really made a splash - hell it didn't even manage to create ripples. Sad thing really, as the American crowd already a few years later on would be thirsting for the most out there treats the European scene had to offer, in particular the multicoloured sweets flying out the fascinating Krautrock bunnyhole. With Joyride they had the real deal on their doorstep without ever paying attention. Think Zappa on acid or Quicksilver Messenger Service out of Bavaria and you're not that far off. How this baby seeped through the cracks, I will never know.... As for the music, you're indeed stepping on board the unholy freak train of saucy irregular blues rock with some seriously loose fittings. Often incessant like the more motorik laden Germanic groups, gentle and floating at other times - occasionally hitting that ever so thrilling high, where both improvisation and song coalesce in the most beautiful and imaginative manner.
Take the tune 'Childsong' for instance. A perfect way of illustrating the unique approach on offer, and a chance to highlight the omnipresent naiveness of 'Joyride'. Disregarding all sorts of mainstream behaviour, the track takes it's cue from the field recordings of a busy playground. The main ingredient is not the subtle understated guitar - nor the dreamy atmospheres cooked up by wind chimes, no it's the laughing kids, the ambiances of children playing tic tac toe, talking, singing and roaming the airwaves in a way that is oh so child-like........ AND it works - it works because everything else about this band is naive and playful. It works because it sounds like real music - only here developed through another medium. Sheer genius if you ask me, however simple and un- aristocratic it may be.
Still it's obvious these guys grew out of the sub culture that birthed acts like Ultimate Spinach, Fifty Foot Hose and 13th Floor Elevators and sure quite often will you find yourself bathed in that exact same honeydripping, sensuous and warm feel, only with Friendsound you get something else entirely - something infinitely more esoteric and adventurous. A will to experiment beyond the wah wah pedal and new synthesisers of the day. To me it genuinely sounds like they produced this album the same way I would've done it. Not that I know anything of worthy mentioning inside the labyrinthian world of making experimental rock albums, but I do know what I like and what I don't, - and these fellas sound like they did as well. Joyride feels like an album made up entirely of sounds the band loved. "Wow the triangle played like that sounds so groovy!! Alright, it's settled! It gets to go on record!!! and everything else feels like that with this thing! Spontaneous eclecticism ruling the chicken roost at all times, and with a recipe for disaster at their hands - they came out the other end triumphantly.

TRACKS ARE :-

Side One

1. Joyride (4:22)
2. Childhood's End (1:56)
3. Love Sketch (3:32)
4. Childsong (6:30)

Side Two

1. Lost Angel St. (9:23)
2. The Empire Of Light (9:45)

• Released on RCA Records in 1969

• Catalogue Number LSP-4114

• Record is in Ex ++ condition

• Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition (small drill hole in top left corner)

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