MALACHI - "Holy Music" vinyl LP promo - psychedelic masterpiece 1ST PRESS 1967
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MALACHI
“HOLY MUSIC”
Verve V-5024 (mono copy)
1967
VG++ / VG+
FIRST PRESSING (original gatefold LP)
BEST PRICED MONO COPY ON EBAY AS OF 2-27-2017. Several copies are sitting between $37 to $57, incl. post.
Nice WLP promo copy. Some surface blemishes but plenty of gloss. This is a first pressing with the gatefold cover. See below for details on this incredibly oddball psychedelic release. NOTE: The only guest / side musician on this LP was Steve Cunningham (on Jew’s harp) who was the bass player for Houston psychedelic pioneers (and noise rock pioneers) The Red Krayola.
From the Amazon web site: “Recorded in San Francisco in August 1966, and originally released on the M.G.M./Verve label, this collection of lengthy, acid-tinged folk instrumentals is one of the earliest specifically psychedelic albums ever recorded. As the original sleeve notes state: ‘Malachi's music transcends the traditions of East and West, and represents the new synthesis which is still being worked out in aesthetics, philosophy and religion by those participating in the psychedelic revolution.' This record is a seminal part of the development of what later become ‘acid rock’. One of the original denizens of "The Haight", Malachi (John Morgan Newbern) began as a street musician, playing wherever he could: coffee houses, churches, acid tests, and so on. His music, born of secular and religious elements with an undercurrent of meditative and contemplative spirit, was very fresh and original at the time, and remains so to this day. Make no mistake about it, this album was very important when released, and was heard by practically everyone who was anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene at the time. Elements of this record are very easily heard in the more popular and traditional music of the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and other acts of that era.
You will not find anything to sing along with here, but the atmospherics are arresting. The recording is exceptionally good. The juice harp can be heard to overdrive the tube-powered recording equipment, giving it a depth and character not expected, pushing it into the tonal realm of blues and rock. Malachi plays a "buzz" guitar of his own design and construction, combining a sitar-like feel with modal, slide-guitar stylings combined with the sound effects of bubbling water, tabla drums, and the spoken word. All of these can be identified in the later albums by The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and others, but Malachi pre-dated them by years.
John Morgan Newbern appeared on the scene as Malachi with this offering in 1967. It's a great meditational recording that was made on one evening in 1966 . Newbern on a prepared guitar along with a jew's harp player and a hand drum player construct a very interesting musical rendering that utilizes silence almost as much as it utilizes sound. Newbern obtains some unusual sounds from his guitar and it is very interesting as to how everything comes together to form a soothing, peaceful mood. Very definitely a product of the 1960's but not sounding dated as much from that decade sounds today."
Stored vertically in a smoke free environment for over 50 years.
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