LOTTI GOLDEN Motor-Cycle '69 Atlantic w lyri insert in shrink M- READ--

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  LOTTI GOLDEN

Motor-Cycle

Atlantic 8223 scarce '69 first press. With lyric insert. Lots of comparisons back in '69 to Laura Nyro (I can see it) but I find her rough edges remind me of the spirit of early Patti Smith This is from 'Birds With Broken Wings' blog:
....The artist I'm speaking of Lotti Golden, the very girl whose story is chronicled in 'Motor-Cycle.' When the LP was released in 1969, Look Magazine had this to say about the singer/poet/songwriter, "Everything surrounding Lotti is contradictory. She is direct-distant, earthy-fragile, young-old, part nun and part witch. When she speaks, the voice pipes and wavers like a little girl's, but the accent is tough Brooklyn. She industriously writes poetry and songs, rich in metaphor and starkly descriptive of people and places, and tells you with a straight face that "nothing's worthwhile, it's all a game, everything I do is just an excuse."
Addressing the album itself, the article touted 'Motor-Cycle' as "a synthesis of funky singing and honest, hip lyrics about urban teenage trauma. The music meanwhile is a sometimes satiric melange of rock, jazz, blues and soul which captures women's liberation and motorcycle soul in one fell psychedelic swoop." On the other hand, someone else said this of Golden's opus, "Self-consciously affirmed art is no match for the shell shockingly lurid. I'm thinking of the 1969 Lotti Golden album, 'Motor-Cycle' which in the name of some kind of perverse Midnight Cowboy-era, Piaf-of-Gotham shtick, takes Laura Nyro a step or two further than really necessary, and then sends her hurtling point-blank into the Velvet Underground, exploding in one huge fireball - a musical Ground Zero if ever there was one." I'm not entirely certain if this second uncredited assessment was meant as praise in the highest order, or complete and utter disdain. It could be either. You'll have to make that call for yourself after you've heard it.
'Motor-Cycle' is a 'song cycle' that consists of a mere seven titles, the duration of each falling somewhere between six to eight minutes in length on average. Within that time frame, each song is then inconceivably packed with more musical twists and turns than a mountain road - rock on one verse, jazz on the next, a soul groove for what appears to be the bridge (is it?), which then maybe descends into a slow blues only to be followed by what sounds like a chorus lifted from a Broadway stage show. Everything but the kitchen sink seems to be thrown into the mix, although that might actually be buried in there somewhere too. The shifts are schizophrenic, a bit disorienting, and entirely unnecessary, yet producer, Bob Crewe somehow manages to hold it all together, miraculously steering the bus from the cliff's edge. The results, however wild, are absolutely riveting. But then, adding an additional layer of bizarreness to the proceedings is Golden's poetry; more anecdotal verse than actual lyric. Her stories are populated by a circle of friends who seemingly came right out of Andy Warhol's Factory; a motley crew of misfits and angels, demons and saints, all who seem to ingest every street pharmaceutical available to mankind, from scag to speed, coke to Seconals, and even Robitussin (which at that time still contained codeine). It's surprising that the record company didn't insist on whitewashing the drug references. What's more astonishing is that they actually published a lyric sheet. It's been reported that after Crewe first heard the songs as demos, he felt compelled to pose the obvious question, "Just who are these friends of yours, Lotti?" 
  

Jacket Grade: In loose shrink M- No wear to cover art. No splits.
  
Record Grade:  NM- Little to no visible play wear.

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