THIRD EYE Awakening LP/1969 South Africa/Freedoms Children/HEAVY PSYCH ROCK

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THIRD EYE 'Awakening....' LP (Germany, Shadoks, Catalogue #115) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited Shadoks label LP edition (edition of 500 numbered copies) of MEGA-RARE 1969 South African Progressive Psych Rock LP by Durban based band The Third Eye. Awakening is the first of their three original album releases.

(NOTE: NUMBERED, LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES ONLY!)

'With the help of many music friends and a lot of patience, we could finally arrange a deal to reissue the 3 albums by the South African band The Third Eye for the first time. The original pressing came out on Polydor. Perhaps Third Eye is the best band from S.A. with the most innovative and complex music. Most music lovers would vote Freedoms Children as the biggest influence in S.A. rock, but Third Eye will share at least half of that cake. In cooperation with Dawn Selby (Hammond organ) and her brother Ron (guitar), this project came to life again. They were based in Durban, a coastal city several hundred miles away from the recording and music hub of Johannesburg and started playing in 1968. The first album Awakening came out in 1969 when the female organ player Dawn Selby was only 14 years old. Just imagine her age when you listen to the amazing organ and piano tracks. Awakening was released in 1969 followed by 2 more albums Searching and Brother just one year later in 1970. What a musical output in such a short time. The band and composer must have sat on a volcano when they just waited to burst their music out onto the rock universe. Awakening is the most complex album of the three, with great brass arrangements, piano, Hammond organ, fuzz-guitar and vocals full of soul. Musically going in the direction of bands such as Electric Flag, The Flock's Dinosaur Swamps, Chicago, The Nice and Al Kooper. Pure electric underground of the best sort.'

High-quality 180-gram vinyl pressing, heavy gatefold cover.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

• All Along The Watchtower
• Lost Boy
• Valley Of Sadness
• Apricot Brandy
• Magic Handkerchief
• Love Is A Beautiful Thing
• My Head Spins Round
• Snow Child
• Morning Dew
• Society's Child

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