Psych Prog Jazz Spleen Limelight '69 Sound LP LSD PROMO

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  PROMO / 1969, U.S. Original Vinyl L.P.:

SPLEEN

THE SOUND OF FEELING

LIMELIGHT  LS 86063

* Promotional Copy – 1st Press

* Yellow Label - Deep groove original,             135 gram L.P.

* Leonard Feather - Produced

* Mirror-Like Condition - Light plays

Funky basses, Jazzy saxes,  Moog synthesizer collage monster:

(add a couple of former Star Trek twin actors for a truly far-out experience)

SPLEEN

GARY DAVID, voice, piano, arranger

ALYCE ANDRECE / RHEA ANDRECE, voice, arranger

RAY NEOPOLITAN, bass

DAVE PARLATO, bass

JOE ROCCISANO, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute, percussion

FRED KATZ, cello

GAYLE LEVANT, harp

EMIL RICHARDS, microtonal vibes and percussion

Maurice Miller, drums

PAUL BEAVER, moog synthesizer 

SPLEEN "SOUND OF FEELING:

The Inner Dialogue, arty two girls/one guy '60s L.A. sunshine pop. The Sound Of Feeling tempts one to imagine what might have happened if the Inner Dialogue had taken copious amounts of LSD, starting hanging around late-night avant garde jazz jam sessions, and recorded an album for NY free jazz/freako label ESP. This 1969 album isn't on ESP, but on Limelight, the short-lived Mercury subdivision that was initally a Quincy Jones-supervised, legit jazz label, but eventually also home to the great electro-psych band Fifty Foot Hose and a few other West Coast weirdos in the late '60s. The album is produced by none other than legendary jazz critic Leonard Feather. The group itself essentially consists of twin sisters Alyce Rhae Andrece and Rhae Alyce Andrece, and a guy named Gary David, all of whom are credited as both singers and "arrangers." The Andrece sisters had previously done guest spots on various TV shows, most notably appearing on the 1967 Star Trek episode "I, Mudd" in multiple roles as the legion of Mudd's identical android girlfriends, all named "Alice." The band consists of a bunch of top-flight L.A. session cats more oriented toward jazz than the Wrecking Crew musicians, but who had also played tons of rock and pop sessions. One of the aformentioned cats, the uber-ubiquitous vibes/marimba/percussionist Emil Richards, contributes microtonal vibes (don't ask me). Add to all this the participation of Paul Beaver of early synthesizer duo Beaver & Krause, a close associate of Robert Moog and one of the men most responsible for the infiltration of the synthesizer into pop music and film soundtracks in the late-'60s/early-'70s. The aforementioned vocal "arrangements" suggest a collision between the Free Design, Yoko Ono, ESP avant-diva Patty Waters, and Sun Ra's background vocalists. The music is an amalgamation of free jazz, free form avant garde freakout, and deconstructed rock/pop. Parts of Spleen are actually not that dissimilar to the recent pair of Eddie Gale reissues (check 'em out). A couple of the tracks are radical reworkings of contemporary pop songs (Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound Of Silence" and Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man," and the rest are out-there originals. Oh, and a deconstructed Bartok piece tacked on to the end for good measure. 

CONDITION:

COND. COVER:       No seam splits or holes in cover.

                                         No stains, writing or markings.

                                         Corner wear / some edge wear.

                                         Slightest color wear on bottom front.

COND. VINYL:          VG++ has a slight noise when played. Only very                                             light scuffs and marks, clean, shiny, light plays.

                                          light spindle marks. VPI  w / Groovy washed.                                              

SLEEVE:                         Original sleeve, generic.

                                         Anti-static, audiophile sleeve included.

* A RARE U.S. LIMELIGHT STEREO ORIGINAL L.P.

   THIS IS ALSO AN INCREDIBLE COLLECTORS COPY!!!.

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