SIMLA BEAT 70 - Orig Rare Indian Psych Rock Disco Pop Garage Punk Fuzz Beat
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diamondsindia Store SIMLA BEAT 70
Here we offer an ORIGINAL copy of this renown Indian garage/psych album! These records are so rare that even many seasoned dealers and collectors in India do not know/aware of their existance. This is the more garagy sounding of the two Simla Beat LPs but it also has a few amazing psychedelic pieces ("Mist" by Delhi's Great Bear should be my fave!). For some time, there was talk that these bands could/should have been American bands since the music does not contain much influences of authentic Indian music but I can assure you: all the bands are of Indian origin!
This is the one that started it all, rarer than the SIMLA BEAT 71 , Simla Beat 1970, now 42 years old and has now become a very rare disc to lay hands on especially in this collectible condition.This record along with many more was locked for more than 35 years in a room till I reached.
2. Dinosaurs – You Can’t Beat It
3. X’Lents – Psychedelia YouTube
4. Innerlite – Zorba’s Dance YouTube
5. Genuine Spares – Proper Stranger YouTube
6. Genuine Spares – What’s Going On YouTube
7. Dinosaurs – Sinister Purpose Mp3 Download YouTube
8. Great Bear – Mist YouTube
9. X’Lents – Born On The Bayou YouTube
10. Innerlite – Baby Baby Please YouTube
This is about as obscure as garage rock gets. For two years, 1970 and 1971, a cigarette company, Simla , in India sponsored a battle-of-the-bands competition, with the winners going to Calcutta to record for compilations called Simla Beat.
Each year an album was released with no info about the bands other than their hometown. Also issued was this 45 with two of the better tracks and some silly & amusing liner notes on the back of the sleeve
Some people think this is a hoax, or that the recordings came from somewhere other than India. It’s true that some bands have a similar sound, though this could be from sharing a studio and perhaps instruments as well. Also, the bands lean heavily on American rock of the time and show very little British influence.
The Confusions from Madras cut this amazing original, “Voice from the Inner Soul”. It has a tough, heavy sound with a rudimentary beat, sharp bluesy guitar fills, and an organ sound right out of 1966.
The Dinosaurs, from Bangalore, contribute a fine cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Sinister Purpose”, giving Fogerty writing credit, somewhat surprisingly given the usual global practice of song appropriation. This one has nice fuzz guitar and gravely vocals. I’d say it surpasses the original.
Surprising in that it's uncanny how much this sounds like the garage bands that could have been playing in any country, although it actually sounds more like bands from Europe and South America that spoke English as a second language than it does like American or British groups. Surprising, also, in that it sounds much more like 1965-1968 rock than it does like early '70s rock, although that's understandable given that it can take years for Western trends make their impact on the other side of the globe.
IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ANYWHERE ELSE !!!!!!!!
SERIOUS OFFERS ARE WELCOME
OUT OF STOCK & VERY RARE INDIAN EDITION
ONLY ONE AVAILABLE
MADE IN INDIA
RECORD IS NOT IN GOOD CONDITION WITH LOTS OF SCRATCHES & SCUFFS
WITH ORIGINAL SLEEVE
NEVERTHELESS IT IS A RARE RECORD
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