HIGH TREASON V Rare Orig early 70's US Jazz Prog Psych LP on Tiny Abbott Label
£
20
$
26
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
High Treason
s/t
Very Rare Originl US Psych LP released on Abbott Records in 197?. 1st US pressing.
Despite the lip-service paid to bebop and modal jazz -- particularly the playing of legends such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis -- by the late-'60s countercultural scene, few of its rock bands actually attempted to translate the interest into music. The sole album from High Treason, however, was steeped in the genre, thanks in large part to leader and schooled keyboard whiz (check the Bach-like Baroque progressions of "Circadian Rhythm") Edgar Koshatka. High Treason marries extensive jazz interplay with a darkly atmospheric type of rock that took its cues, right down to the shared coed vocals, from the Jefferson Airplane. The music ultimately isn't as accomplished as anything in that band's catalog, but it is for want of distinctive songwriting, not because High Treason lacked the chops or ideas to compete with the top-flight artists of the day. High Treason has musicianship to spare, a profusion of adventuresome moments. But at just six numbers, it is very much an album that puts musical skills before songs. Vocalists Marcie Rauer and Joe Cleary sound much more at ease on the funky country-soul of "Maybe, Maybe," the finest actual song on the album, than they do on the jazzy and psychedelic material (the embarrassing scat interpretation of "Subterranean Homesick Blues," for instance). Rauer, in particular, tends to over-sing at times, presumably in an effort to sound more like Grace Slick. The instrumentalists suffer no such problem. On the final two cuts, "The Witch" and "Fallin' Back," the band delves all the way into straight jazz during extended instrumental passages with electric results. But both also highlight the problematic nature of the album. As wonderful as the music can be -- and each song has scintillating flashes -- there simply is nothing to take away except the memory of the outstanding playing.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. Leo
2. Maybe, Maybe
3. Subterranean Homesick Blues
Side Two
1. Circadian Rhythm
2. The Witch
3. Fallin' Back
-
Released on Abbott Records in 197?
-
Catalogue Number ABS 1209
-
Record is in Ex + condition (couple of light surface marks and a small scratch on side two)
-
Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition
***All Items must be paid for within 7 days***
-
POSTAGE RATES WITHIN THE UK: -
-
FIRST 7" IS £1.50 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 7" ADD 50p
-
FIRST 10" IS £2.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 10" ADD 50p
-
FIRST 12" IS £2.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 12" ADD 50p
-
FIRST LP IS £2.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL LP ADD 50p
-
FIRST CD IS £1.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL CD ADD 50p
price rating
