THIRD EYE Brother LP/1970 South Africa/Freedoms Children/HEAVY PSYCH ROCK
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THIRD EYE 'Brother' LP (Germany, Shadoks, Catalogue #117) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited Shadoks label LP edition (edition of 500 numbered copies) of MEGA-RARE 1970 South African Progressive Psych Rock LP by Durban based band The Third Eye. Brother is the third 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. The album Brother followed the same year in 1970 after Searching. The music is closer to the album Awakening without the brass arrangements. More organ based compositions with beautiful vocals and guitars. We must mention the amazing drumming and bass which holds the complex tracks together and drives them forwards. As a musical comparison we would mention again the bands from the US and UK underground, such as Electric Flag, Chicago and Keef Hartley Band. But we must say, if bands from South Africa were not banned in Europe and the USA at the time the albums by The Third Eye came out, they would have become as popular and even more as the mentioned bands from USA and UK. All three albums are killer albums and we would not want to miss one of them.'
High-quality 180-gram vinyl pressing.
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
- Brother
- Once Upon A Time (Part 1)
- Once Upon A Time (Part 2)
- Listen To The Bells
- Sister
- Young Folk And Old Folk
- Fire (a: Prelude, b: Poem, c: Fire)
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Record shipped in professional, superior rectangular shaped, corner-protecting corrugated cardboard record mailer with filler pads. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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