Pastoral Symphony-Twilights-Axiom Mega 4Tk EP

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Pastoral symphony

'cam-pact'

mega rare aussie 4 track p/c ep

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You are bidding on an Mega Mega Ultra rare 7" 4 track EP from Australia which was released by Festival Records Cat No. FX-11,511 by....

 'The Pastoral Symphony' and 'Cam-Pact

Track listing is..

Pastoral Symphony: 1. Love Machine 2. Spread A Little Love Around

Cam-Pact 1. Drawing Room 2. I'm Your Puppet

The picture sleeve cover is graded near mint. Has a price ticket in top right hand corner and i will not remove this, i will leave it up to the buyer for obvious reasons

The record labels are mint with not even a spindle mark and the vinyl looks from a visual point of view mint but to be sure i will grade it near mint to keep everyone happy.

Band members were from the Twilights, Axiom, Strangers, The Groop

No other music was released by this super group as another band in Melbourne registered the band name themselves and faded into obscurity. What a shame as Pastoral Symphony could have been a great bonus for the Australian music scene in the sixties

I had never seen this item in over 30 years of collecting EP's and 45's, so you can imagine my excitement on finding this gem.

PASTORAL SYMPHONY

History
Pastoral Symphony was never a group as such, merely a bunch of musicians assembled under a collective name. The Pastoral Symphony name did, however, register one hit single with the ultra-commercial pop ditty `Love Machine'.

The story began with the arrival of English producer Jimmy Stewart in Australia during early 1968. Together with local producer Geoffrey Edelsten, Stewart set up a studio session to record a single under an assumed name. It was a common practice at the time in the UK (for example The New Vaudeville Band, The Flowerpot Men), but unheard of in Australia. The studio band comprised Terry Walker (lead vocals; from The Strangers), all of The Twilights, Ronnie Charles (harmonies; from The Groop), Johnny Hawker (harmonies) and the Johnny Hawker Orchestra's string and brass sections. Buoyed by Stewart's superb production techniques (for the time), the resultant single, `Love Machine'/`Spread a Little Love Around', was strong enough to reach #10 in Melbourne and #16 in Sydney during June 1968. Stewart and Edelsten set about putting together a `proper' Pastoral Symphony, but in the meantime a young Melbourne band had registered the name. The ensuing legal battle did little to further Stewart's cause, and Pastoral Symphony was never heard from again.

Stewart became involved in Adelaide independent label Sweet Peach as house producer. He formed a partnership with folkie Doug Ashdown as co-writer, co-producer and co-performer. In the early 1970s, Stewart set up the Billingsgate label. Meanwhile, Edelsten travelled to the USA where he made his fortune. He later earned a great deal of attention as the first (ill-fated) private owner of an Australian Rules Football team when he helped set up the Sydney Swans Football Club during the early 1980s.

CAM-PACT          

History
Cam-Pact was one of the most important breeding grounds for rock musicians of note on the Melbourne scene of the late 1960s/early 1970s. Cam-Pact became a cornerstone band with a genuine cult following. The band's name was originally the tongue-in-cheek The Camp Act, but that was considered too outrageous for the time.

Cam-Pact started as a Stax/Tamla Motown soul group in April 1967, before progressing through teenybopper and psychedelic stages and on to heavy blues. The band suffered many line-up changes, with the final version (circa early 1970) eventually evolving into Company Caine with the addition of Gulliver Smith (ex-Dr Kandy's Third Eye). The second line-up comprised Glass, Stockley and Barnes, with Trevor Courtney (drums; ex-Chants R&B) and Greg Cook (guitar; ex-Silk'n'Dreams) replacing Lloyd and Pugh respectively. Lloyd went on to Carnival, Extradition and Forest. Pugh spent the next few years jumping from one band to the next in quick succession: James Taylor Move, The News, The Avengers, Healing Force, Baiyana, Silversun, Ray Burton Nightflyers and the Renée Geyer Band.

The second line-up of Cam-Pact was the most consistent and popular combination. The band's four singles for Festival were all fine examples of late 1960s psychedelic pop: `Something Easy'/`Michael' (March 1968), `Drawing Room'/`I'm Your Puppet' (May 1968), `Good Good Feelin''/`And It Won't Be Long' (September 1968) and `Potion of Love'/`Cry My Heart Out' (June 1969). By late 1968, Barnes had left and Glass was playing bass. Glass and Stockley had also left Cam-Pact by the middle of 1969. Stockley joined Axiom and then The Dingoes. Initially Keith Glass appeared in the Australian production of Hair, after which he went on to become something of a legendary figure in his own right. Cam-Pact's last single was `Zoom Zoom Zoom'/`Getting Myself Together' (September 1969).

Latterday members included Bill Blisset (organ, vocals), Russell Smith (guitar; ex-Nineteen87), Chris Löfven (bass; ex-19th Generation, Carnival) who was replaced by Cliff Edwards (bass) and Ray Arnott (drums; ex-Chelsea Set, Browns). Bluesman Matt Taylor also filled in as lead singer for a two-week tour of Sydney during early 1970. By March 1970, the final, three-piece Cam-Pact line-up of Smith, Arnott and Edwards had formed the backbone of Company Caine. Löfven went on to become a leading underground film-maker. He directed groundbreaking filmclips for Daddy Cool's `Eagle Rock' and Spectrum's `I'll Be Gone'. In 1972 he filmed an intriguing 11-minute silent short called The Beginning which featured a heavy organ score by musician Lindsay Bourke. In 1976, Löfven wrote, produced and directed the feature film Oz, an Australian adaption of the Wizard of Oz storyline.

In 1977, Glass issued the four-track Cam-Pact EP Living in the '60s on his Missing Link label. The EP included `Drawing Room', `I'm Your Puppet' and two previously unissued tracks from 1968 `Wasted (on a Fantasy)' and `(You Don't Have to) Break it to Me Gently'.

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