Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream, ORIGINAL LP
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Description
ORIGINAL COPY .
UK PRESSING.
Label : Fontana
Catalogue No: TL.5448
Released 1967
Mono
Sleeve Condition : VERY GOOD. Flipback sleeve with some light creases, edge and corner rubs and a few light marks to the white areas on the back. Sleeve still looking good and feels solid.
Vinyl Condition : EXCELLENT. Silver on black label. Some light fingermarks. Plays very well indeed with some very light background noise from dust crackles in quiter sections. Really sounds cracking in mono - leaps out of the speakers.
The classic psychedelic debut LP by the British four piece, one of the first really collectable pieces in the genre and still worth the money. I've nicked the following review from Amazon:
The most magical psychedelic album ever, August 29, 2001
Kaleidoscope were too polite for their own good. "Tangerine Dream" is all extremely low key, so don't expect wild, howling sound effects and slippery side-length suites. Kaleidoscope only ever did one piece of all-out-weirdness, "Music" on their second album "Faintly Blowing", which is as highly recommended as this (you'll find the whole thing, as well as much of "Tangerine Dream", on the compilation "Dive Into Yesterday".) Instead, the band fell firmly in the category "toytown", meaning gentle songs about childhood and nursery rhymes and quiet little pastoral love songs. In other words, just like "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" without the overdrive.
It begins quiet as a mouse with "Kaleidoscope", which sets the tone: gorgeous breathy vocal harmonies over a wimpy beat. Wimpy? Afraid so, though it's not quite down to the level of World of Oz or Gandalf. But bring any cynicism to Kaleidoscope and they fall to pieces like a paper kite in a gale. The album is full of minor little pieces all the same, those beautiful choir boy harmonies over sparse, jazzy melodies on piano and acoustic guitar.
There are two obviously poppy standouts: "Dive Into Yesterday" and "Flight From Ashiya" - if you know either, you know the whole thing, pretty much. But if you love either, you'll adore this album. Not everything works - "Mr Small, The Watch Repairer Man" (it sounds like a rejected episode from Keith West's Teenage Opera) is MUCH too twee, and "Holidaymaker" so upbeat and jolly it jars. However, within the easy listening framework there is real lyrical intelligence here, best heard on songs like "The Murder Of Lewis Tollani" and, especially, "In The Room Of Percussion" which puts some extremely scary bad trip imagery to a simple little pop tune - "My god, the spiders are everywhere!"
However, the whole of the rest of the album is put into shade by its closing track, "The Sky Children", eight extraordinary minutes in which Peter Daltrey sings his masterpiece, a fairy tale about a group of flying children who go on a long Mr Benn-style adventure and come home changed forever. It's one relentless torrent of prose, no time even for an instrumental break, but once you're caught up in the story - and the words are vital, but they're easy to find on the internet - this will change your life. If you survive to the end ("And the children stayed children, and they lived in their dreams") without blubbering you're a harder man than me.
TRACKLIST
- Kaleidoscope
- Please Excuse My Face
- Dive Into Yesterday
- Mr. Small, the Watch Repair Man
- Flight From Ashiya
- The Murder of Lewis Tollani
- (Further Reflections) In The Room Of Percussion
- Dear Nellie Goodrich
- Holidaymaker
- A Lesson, Perhaps
- The Sky Children
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