KALEIDOSCOPE Faintly Blowing LP Psych Fairfield Parlour

	£		23
	$		30

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KALEIDOSCOPE (UK)

Faintly Blowing

UK Reissue LP released on 5 Hours Back Records in 1987.

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No relation to the better known American Kaleidoscope, though this British group was also psychedelic, and was active at almost exactly the same time in the late '60s. Highly esteemed by collectors, Kaleidoscope epitomized certain of the more precious traits of British psychedelia with their fairy-tale lyrics and gentle, swirling folky sound. At times they sound like a far more melodic and accessible Incredible String Band. Their folky ballads have aged best, and there's period charm to be found throughout their two albums. Although they had a solid underground reputation in Britain, they never found wide success, and evolved into a similar group, Fairfield Parlour, by the end of the '60s.

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For their second album, Kaleidoscope delivered something a lot like their debut, a body of pleasant, trippy, spacy raga-rock, with the main difference that they pushed the wattage a little harder on their instruments -- they'd also been performing pretty extensively by the time of their second long-player, and a lot of the music here was material that they'd worked out on-stage in very solid versions. The result is a record just as pretty as their debut but a little punchier and more exciting within each song than their first album. The title track is also one of the more beautiful psychedelic effects pieces of its period, while "A Story from Tom Bitz" is crunchy folk-rock, "(Love Song) For Annie" represents a more lyrical brand of druggy folk-rock, and "If You So Wish" shifts over to Moody Blues-style ballad territory circa late 1968 and early 1969.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Faintly Blowing

Poem

Snapdragon

A Story From Tom Bitz

(Love Song) For Annie

If You So Wish...

Side Two

Opinion

Bless The Executioner

Black Fjord

The Feathered Tiger

I'll Kiss You Once

Music

Released on '5 Hours Back Records' in 1987

Catalogue No. TOCK 006

Disc is in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX++ condition

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