1967 Minds Eye THE CHILDREN REBIRTH TEXAS PSYCH GARAGE HIPPIE ROCK

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MEGA-RARE ORIGINAL 1969 FIRST PRESS

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              THE CHILDREN

                  "REBIRTH"

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                 USA - Cinema - CLP 1 Stereo 


SUPER RARE original PRIVATE PRESS from 1968 ... the album was so good that ATCO Records (major label) signed the group and immediately released THIS album = a far inferior version with only a single-fold cover and with studio additions like strings/horns enhancemebts. BUT here is the straight ahead group song mixes, all raw & dynamic without any backing studio arrangements.  

The CHILDREN is a Rare 1968 psychedelic recording from the legendary San Antonio group, an offshoot of "The Mind's Eye". The re-release on ATCO RECORDS is rare enough, but this is the original on the private Cinema label from Texas. The Atco Records issue has a completely different (INFERIOR) mix, the production team at Atco, completely wrecked the recording with added arrangements, while THIS the first Cinema Records issue gives you the original un-doctored psychedelic garage sound as it was intended to be - far superior and rates as a great collectible easily getting three $$$ figures in collector circles....

The first half of "Rebirth" is a rather phenomenal document: mood-driven and densely textured psychedelia at its very best. "Daybreak" opens the album with what seems to be a fairly quaint ditty until its controlled eruptions of orchestration, unique and enticing, cause the music to grow in dimension. "Maypole" also initially leans toward preciousness, the themes of childhood naïveté employed by dozens of bands in the wake of Sgt. Pepper's, but in its seesawing-calliope backing and minor-key shifts there is also something compellingly creepy that resonates more of shadows than innocence. It leads wonderfully into "Don't Ever Lose It," a macabre fairy tale as enigmatically disorienting as it is rocking, and the delicate "Beautiful," which (particularly owing to Stephen Perron's haunting vocals) lives up to its title in the spookiest of ways. "Sitting on a Flower," a Cassell Webb showcase, is also powerful stuff. The album's only significant failing is a tendency during its last half to lose sight of the experience it means to convey. The honky tonk parody "Military School" (which is quite interesting musically) may be a timely parable of the imbroglio in Vietnam, but it feels like an alien presence on the album, as does the goofy "I Got Involved," more akin to a 1930s radio commercial. The album rights itself nicely with "Pictorial," an epic, enveloping piece of acid dementia, and the equally fierce "Dreaming Slave," with its funky bursts of vibey jazz. Regardless of its flaws, Rebirth proves the Children to be one of the finest and most fascinating forgotten bands of the era...


Daybreak


Maypole


Don't Ever Lost It


 
Beautiful


 
Sitting on a Flower


I'll Be Your Sunshine


Military School


I Got Involved


Pictorial


Dreaming  

CONDITION: The cover: is rated Clean and glossy over both sides, rated: VG(+) stray hairlines and/or nothing light scuffs, so overall expect enjoyable audio with light surface in places but not overly so... we actually paid considerable to obtain this (rare) title being so rare and good!

The vinyl: is rated Clean and glossy over both sides, rated: VG(+) stray hairlines and/or nothing light scuffs, so overall expect enjoyable audio with light surface in places but not overly so... we actually paid considerable to obtain this (rare) title being so rare and good!

Both CINEMA labels are clean

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record