BOBBY CALLENDER — RAINBOW — 1968 STEREO LP MGM SE 4557 SEALED
$
72
$ 72
Sold For
Oct 4, 2012
Sold Date
Sep 24, 2012
Start Date
$ 15
Start price
14
Number Of Bids
France
Country Of Seller
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Description
Rainbow ; Nature ; Sade Masoch ; Purple ; Mother Superior ; Autumn ;
A Man ; I’m Just High On Life ; Symphonic Pictures
• BOBBY CALLENDAR WAS AN INCREDIBLY GIFTED POET AND LYRICIST WHOSE
COMPLEX TEXTS COULD ONLY BE COMPARED TO SCOTT WALKER ; THE CONCEPTS
OF A U.K. ARTIST OF INDIAN HERITAGE POST-PSYCHEDELIA WERE AUGMENTED
BY THE LUSH ARRANGEMENTS OF PAUL HARRIS AND BOB GALLO ... THE CAST OF
MUSICIANS ON THIS ALBUM INCLUDED SOME OF THE HIGHEST-CALIBER SIDEMEN
OF THE TIME, MOST NOTABLY RICHARD DAVIS, THE BASSIST OF VAN MORRISON'S
ASTRAL WEEKS FAME (NOT TO MENTION A JAZZ MUSICIAN IN HIS OWN RIGHT),
THE GUITARS OF ERIC GALE AND HUGH MCCRACKEN, AND THE ASTONISHINGLY
SUBTLE BURNARD PURDIE ON DRUMS. THE ALBUM IS A RICH AND COMPLEX
EXPLORATION OF EASTERN-INSPIRED PSYCHEDELIC ROCK AND FOLK CENTERED
ON THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX TEXTS AND VOCALS OF BOBBY CALLENDAR. WHEN
READING THE LYRIC SHEET, IT'S MOST ASTONISHING HOW SUCH ELABORATE
POETIC EVOCATIONS WERE SOMEHOW MADE TO FIT POPULAR SONG FORMS.
SURE, AT THESE HIGHLY CONSCIOUS TIMES OF THE LATE 1960S IT WAS NOT
UNCOMMON FOR DEEPLY POETIC, SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS, OR HALLUCINOGENIC
THEMES TO APPEAR IN THE LYRICS OF POP MUSIC, YET THIS IS ALBUM IS
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT FOR BEING ONE OF THE MOST OSTENTATIOUS
ANIMATIONS OF THE WRITTEN WORD, YET ABSOLUTELY VITAL AND MUSICAL
THROUGHOUT. FANS OF SCOTT WALKER'S SOLO MATERIAL, COLIN BLUNDSTONE,
AND DUNCAN BROWNE SHOULD GIVE THIS LP A FEW HOURS - IF NOT A WEEK -
OF THEIR ATTENTION.
ORIGINAL 1968 STEREO PRESSING OF THIS EASTERN PSYCH LP STILL SEALED...
BELIEVED TO INCLUDE INSERT / LYRICS SHEET ~ GOOD LUCK FINDING ANOTHER
STONE MINT COPY ! •
