DAMON Song Of A Gypsy - Spanish LP + 7" EP - Acid Folk Psych Hippie Drone

	£		23
	$		30

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DAMON

Song Of A Gypsy

Spanish LP released on Guerssen Records in 2005. Gatefold sleeve plus insert. Includes bonus 7" EP.

Singer-songwriter Damon (just Damon, no last name) put out an extremely obscure folk-tinged psychedelic album in 1969, Song of a Gypsy, of which only 100 copies were pressed. Such is its rarity that mint copies go for as much as a thousand dollars, or more. There's a droning, slightly raga-modalish flavour to the melodies and guitar lines, with a gypsy touch in the percussion and questing, spiritual lyrics. It's hippie trance music of a sort.

The gypsy element of Song of a Gypsy is not just an extrapolation from the title, but a deliberate action on Damon's part, who came to think of himself as a gypsy while wandering around California in the late 1960s. After one 45, "Song of the Gypsy"/"Oh What a Good Boy Am I, " the LP was recorded by Damon and other musicians in Los Angeles, its existence barely even suspected by most psychedelic collectors for years.

In the late 1990s it had something of a renaissance, with the title track appearing on one of the Love, Peace & Poetry compilations of rare psychedelia, and the LP getting reissued in both CD and vinyl editions. Around this time Damon returned to recording with a similar but less strange album, Gypsy Eyes.

This LP reissue comes with a four-song, 7" EP that includes the pre-LP "Song of the Gypsy"/"Oh What a Good Boy Am I" single. Another song from the EP, the Byrdsy "I Wonder Why", is one of the best things here.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Song Of A Gypsy
Poor Poor Genie
Don't You Feel Me
Did You Ever
Funky Funky Blues

Side Two

 Do You
The Night
I Feel Your Love
Birds Fly So High
Road Of Life

7" EP

Song Of A Gypsy
Oh What A Good Boy Am I

I Wonder Why
Seems Like I Travelled

Released on 'Guerssen Records' in 2005

Catalogue No. GUESS 020 / GUPEN 004 // GUPEN 45001

Discs are in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX+ condition

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