Melting Pot Sounds
The album opens to a faint pulsing sound that increases in
volume to an unknown drone, and then track two If Not This Time introduces a repeated/echoed female vocal, electronic
noises and jangled guitar riffs riding bass walks to further dissonant effects,
and track three Opus 777 returns to
22 seconds of random drone and ascending
individual tones.
From here, the next eight tracks mix the ordinary with the
extraordinary – folk songs and synth effects – to make this 1967 psychedelic
experiment a template for the musical explorations to follow in San Francisco
and beyond. Sixth track
Red The Sign Post
plays with fuzz too, and whilst the songs overall are hardly memorable [in the
way Jefferson Airplane, for example, would truly psychedelicise, or the United
States of America would be more cleverly playful] they are pushing rock
boundaries, title track
Cauldron
being the most adventurous with its distortions of voice, background screams,
poetic recitals, reversed sounds and other assorted noises.
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