Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000
CD
"What happens if you take legendary surf guitarist Jerry Cole, after his brief spell with The Animated Egg and put him in a room with a lush orchestra and lots of Philip K Dick books?
According to the sleeve of the original mid-‘60s album: “A space Odyssey in the beat of today – with the far out sounds of tomorrow’s uncharted trip beyond the now generation.’
Yes, all that and song titles like ‘Re-Entry To Mog’ and the supreme ‘A Disappointed Love With A Desensitized Robot’. ‘Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000’ is a work of psychedelic genius with a Krautrock-styled rhythm, a trippy meander through the planets that’s very PiL in places over ten years before the fact. As groovy as it gets!"
WE SAY:
Our memory was that this actually IS the Animated Egg album, but with the 101 Strings orchestra overdubbed - in fact some of the tracks are subtitled with their original names. But the Animated Egg LP only had ten tracks, the 101 Strings album has fifteen - and the sleevenote reveals how it all came about (for further enlightenment, go to
http://progressive.homestead.com/Prog-4.html and scroll down to the section about The Id). Our preference remains the 'original' Animated Egg release, but then at least one of us has here been grooving to that little gem since 1969 (in glorious mono, on the Marble Arch label!).
Tracklisting
1 Flameout
2 Re-entry To Mog (That's How It Is)
3 Space Odyssey (Sure Listic)
4 Astral Freakout (A Love Built On Sand)
5 Orbit Fantasy (Inside Looking Out)
6 Blues For The Guru
7 Strings For Ravi
8 Barrier X-69 (Slippin' And Trippin')
9 A Disappointed Love With A Desensitized Robot
10 Where Were You In 1982?
11 Trippin' On Lunar 07
12 A Bad Trip Back In '69
13 Karma Sitar
14 Whiplash
15 Instant Nirvana
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