RARE & SOUGHT 1971 Orig "THE TRIP" CARONTE DRAMATIC HARD PSYCH JIMI GUITAR
  $   282

 


$ 282 Sold For
Mar 8, 2026 Sold Date
Mar 1, 2026 Start Date
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  • RARE!
  •  SELDOM SEEN 1971
  • ORIGINAL
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  • ~ THE TRIP ~
  • "CARONTE"
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  • ITALY - RCA PSL 10509

MINTY
Brilliant mix featuring (two) British & (two) Italian guys releasing three highly collected progressive-psych albums in the early 70's led by wild keyboards and Hendrixy guitar propelled by expressive basslines & percussive backbeats... "Caronte" was the second studio album by Anglo-Italian band The Trip released in 1971 on the Italian RCA label with a line up featuring Arvid "Wegg" Andersen (vocals, bass), Billy Gray (electric guitar, vocals), Joe Vescovi (vocals, Hammond organ, piano, church organ, Mellotron) and Pino Sinnone (drums, percussion). 
It's a concept album inspired by the memory of some passed over/legendary rock heroes such as Jimi Hendrix where the band blend classical influences with dramatic hard rock and psychedelia, moves, Italian culture and American dreams, showing great creativity and musicianship. The cover art work was taken from some Gustave Doré's illustrations for Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy", re-elaborated with irony and a touch of color in a curious pop-art style depicting the contents of the album
The jammeer opener "Caronte I" (Charon I) starts by pulsing bass lines, dark organ waves and spectral electric guitar blows that take you into the underworld, across the river of woe, where you can embark on Charon's ferryboat like Dante and Virgil.  Your journey through hell begins... "Dear Charon, thank you for the invitation to look apon a souls damnation. With us are a chosen few that we should like to interview..."
The following "Two Brothers" opens with sound effects of car brakes and tires on the asphalt and was inspired by the final scene of "Easy Rider", the 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern. Shots and a riderless motorcycle flying through the air, a running man desperately trying to escape from his killers, the road covered in blood, fire and flames, steel and leather... The atmosphere is dark while bass and organ weave a requiem for the dead riders, then the rhythm rises as the music and lyrics evoke the protagonists on their highway to hell...

The dreamy, flowing drifter, "Little Janie" opens the second side of the LP. It's a piece dedicated to Janis Joplin and evokes her tragic fate... Next comes the long, complex "L'ultima ora e Ode a Jimi Hendrix" (The last hour and Ode to Jimi Hendrix) that conjures up the reeling shadow of the dead guitar hero in a curious mix of classical inspired organ patterns, powerful rock passages and weepimg guitar solos.

Then the short jam "Caronte II" closes this particular journey through hell leaving up to your imagination the rest of the story....
  1. On the whole, an excellent album and one of the very first examples of Italian Progressive Rock along with "L'uomo" by Osanna.

  3. Caronte 1 (6:45)
    Two Brothers (8:15)
    Little Janie (4:00)
    L'Ultima Ora e Ode a Jimi Hendrix (10:18)
     Caronte 2 (3:32)
  4.   CONDITION:
  5. The cover: rated: near M- beautiful colorful gatefold art design, stiff and flat, always been difficult to find had little to no distribution in the USA some 55 years ago. There are 
  6. no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, no faded colors, and no writing 
  1. The vinyl: Rated: M- all shiny smooth and plays clear from any surface issues, both blue Italian RCA labels are clean as shown 
A cool addition to anyone's music library! 
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