HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT - Orig UK LP - Prog Psych Art Spooky Tooth

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	$		24

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HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT

Featuring The Human Host & The Heavy Metal Kids

Original UK Stereo LP released on Minit Records in 1967. Laminated sleeve. Black vinyl.

MLS 40001 A//1▼420   /   MLS 40001 B//1▼420

HAPSHASH AND THE COLOURED COAT was the third and final name of the British creative partners Michael English and Nigel Waymouth. The two made a name for themselves producing colourful surreal posters in the mid-sixties, primarily for psychedelic and underground bands like PINK FLOYD, SPOOKY TOOTH, SOFT MACHINE, JIMI HENDRIX and many others.

In 1967 the pair released an album under the name Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and subtitled 'Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids'. The 'Heavy Metal Kids' were in fact the fledgling group ART, members of which would become the short-lived group SPOOKY TOOTH (Mike Harrison, Greg Ridley, Mike Kellie and Luther Grosvenor). The album is marked by wild psychedelic jams punctuated with unpredictable vocal outbursts, manic piano and rhythms sometimes bordering on both a very early funk sound, and some aspects of world music.

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This album has acquired a bit of status as a minor legend and it's not too hard to hear why; besides the grandiose spirit-of-1967 group and album name, this brief but interesting record has a lot of descendants, though whether that was intentionally the case or not is up in the air.

The English trio that made up Hapshash for its was composed of art designers and DJs by trade; this, their sole release together, is a classic situation of lightning in a bottle. The emphasis is on blunt but entrancing rhythm throughout -- pounding drums and bongos, rolling piano (sometimes practically barrelhouse), and chunky guitar parts that are proto-funk as much as steady, straightforward crunch. Combine that with vocals that appear then disappear as needed and an air of ragged partying, and it's not too off balance to consider this album as a fine equivalent to what the Velvet Underground were starting to cook up.

Certainly it sounds like the original Amon Düül had this spinning when creating their own freak-outs a couple of years later, what with the chanting and fractured acid folk guitar here and there ("The New Messiah Coming 1985" is particularly gone). Even the shorter songs, like "A Mind Blown Is a Mind Shown" and the mostly a cappella chanting of "Aoum," sound like excerpts from much longer efforts.

"H-O-P-P-Why?" kicks everything off with the right blend of things, but it's the monstrous, bell-laden "Empires of the Sun" that's the winner, with some great parts where the (at points elsewhere, orgasmic) vocalists sound like mariachi singers.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

H-O-P-P- Why?
A Mind Blown Is A Mind Shown
The New Messiah Coming 1985
Aoum

Side Two

Empires Of The Sun

Released on 'Minit Records' in 1967

Catalogue No. MLS 40001

Disc is in G+ condition (a LOT of surface wear - hence low start price)

Sleeve is in G+ condition (a lot of wear & laminate creasing / pinholes at corners)

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