Father Yod & the Spirit of '76 - Kohoutek LP  -  rare vinyl issue of this hippie cult psych album.  -- from limited edition on HigherKey Records.  hard-to-find and collectible.  own this artifact!


"In the spirit of WTF we have the first two records from Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 aka Ya Ho Wha 13. For anybody who is thirsting to find out what this group and their cult leader Father Yod were about... look no further. Father Yod’s ranting and caterwauling can be harsh to these ears, but the improvisational soundscape behind him can be rewarding. Immeasurable freak factor stuff"

Father Yod And The Spirit Of '76 – Kohoutek

Label: Higher Key Records – 3301 Format:Vinyl, Album
Country: US Released:1973 Genre:Rock Style: Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist ?

A
Part 1 14:59
B
Part 2 10:48

Credits?

• Bass – Sunflower Aquarian
• Drums – Octavius Aquarian
• Guitar – Djin Aquarian
• Vocals – Father Yod

"Founded in 1973 in the Los Angeles area, Ya Ho Wha 13, otherwise known Yahowha 13 is a psychedelic rock band fronted by Father Yod, spiritual leader of a religious cult/commune called the Source Family. Ya Ho Wha without the vowels and spaces reduces to YHWH, the tetragrammaton. The band recorded nine LPs full of their extreme psychedelic sound with tribal drums and distorted guitars, some of which were completely unrehearsed jam sessions, others which contained more conventional rock songs."  

"Members of The Source Family, who lived in the Hollywood Hills in the early 1970s, decided to fuse their musical talents and spirituality by forming an improvisational, psychedelic music group. They began to press LPs in 1973, most of which were recorded after hours of meditation at 3:00-6:00 a.m. in a soundproofed garage that served as the musicians’ studio at the family's communal residence. All of the records with Father Yod’s participation were completely improvised, with no rehearsals or overdubs. Most of the albums were pressed in small runs of only 500 to 1000 copies on the Higher Key label. They were sold to the general public in Father Yod’s popular vegetarian Source Restaurant for $10 each. Though only nine LPs were produced and released, it is rumored that more than 65 albums were recorded by the group but were lost over the years....Isis Aquarian, who was the family historian, archivist and one of Fathers wives, recently found a lot of these unreleased music tapes in her archives and they are now being remastered and released through Drag City Records out of Chicago and their site Yahowhadotorg."

The band changed members occasionally, morphing into various incarnations, from Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 to Ya Ho Wha 13 to The Savage Sons of Ya Ho Wha, Yodship, and Fire Water Air; but the key players were always the same: (Djin Aquarian on guitar, Octavious Aquarian on drums, and Sunflower Aquarian on bass) along with other family musicians Lovely Aquarian, Hom Aquarian, Rhythm Aquarian, Pythias Aquarian, Aquariana Aquarian, Ahom Aquarian, Electron Aquarian. Father Yod does not appear on all their album releases, but for those on which he participates, he handles lead vocals and percussion, via a kettle drum. Yahowha 13 was Father Yod signature Band and one that he said that he would still teaching with (by the words he used) long after he was gone...and it has held true -as the music held a cult underground following all these years and now the next generation has embraced it. Former pop star Sky Saxon of The Seeds had joined the Source Family in 1973 and occasionally appeared on the band's recordings.

Liner notes :

"Kohoutek is an energy. Scientists estimate that its radiance will excel Haley's Comet 50 times, its head to be 100,000 miles in diameter, and its tail to span 100,000,000 miles in space. It will not appear again they say for another 80,000 years.

Man in his history and myth has long associated the comet with the ominous power of the unknown. He has learned that they bring changes. Life after their fiery visitation is never quite the same. What is Kohoutek ? Why is it coming ? What will it bring ?

The mystery of "K houtek" is explored in spontaneous music, sound and song on Higher Key Record's first release by Father Yod and The Spirit of '76'. Don't stay in the dark  Kohoutek is for you."

PS. The text of "I am God, I am the Father of All" (click cover to see it readable), according to the aditional liner notes came "from the Father of All Words to his son Yahowa  God of this sphere who is here, now."

Tr.1, 737-1455

Tr.2, 120-720

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Discography

Father Yod and the Spirit of ‘76

Kohoutek (1973)

Contraction (1974)

Expansion (1974)

All or Nothing at All (1974)

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CONDITION: cover:  excellent  / LP:  excellent.


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