Killer Messed Up Psych Double LP: Maitreya Kali Reissue
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Released on the Two Little Indians label and this copy is Mint- with the inserts..... " Apparently a young man of considerable wealth with more than a passing interest in rock music, these two albums are collections of recordings he financed from the mid-60s to approximately 1971. Being without much in the way of liner notes or recording dates, much of what is known about the artist and the music on offer has been deduced from the arcane cryptology on the records (which must be seen to be believed). One collector actually managed to get close to finding the mysterious Mr. Smith in the late 1980s being connected by phone to a gentleman claiming to be the exector of his trust, who advised him in no uncertain terms that further pursuit of Mr. Smith would be inadvisable and unproductive. All that aside, these are amazing records that should not be missed by anyone interested in sixties music. Not all of the material is of the same quality, but the earlier-sounding tracks on each album are mindblowing. These were made with a small, well-rehearsed rock band, and some of them (the ones on the Inca album) were written by Chris Ducey another Los Angeles-based artist about whom little is known. Knot The Freize is one such track, covering most of side one of Inca as an intricate, engaging rock/folk suite. It is implied on the cover that this "Rock Opera" was written in 1965 and recorded by Capitol records with the involvement of Nick Venet! Color Fantasy and Voodoo Spell from Apache are obviously vintage '60s recordings and are the high point of the first release, the former having top-notch production values and being a swirling mass of treated guitars and trippy vocals. Smith apparently decided to switch gears and embrace folk music circa '69 (probably a necessity; the photos on the albums suggest that he travelled the world extensively around the turn of the decade) and roughly half the music on each album is acoustic guitar and vocal. Obviously, this material will be of less interest to readers of this book but these records are highly recommended nevertheless. Apache was reissued as a single album circa 1989, and Inca followed in the early '90s. The double album version (with all three inserts!) was beautifully reproduced in limited edition by the Little Indians label (No. 2) in 1999.
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