Michele Saturn Rings Curt Boettcher Millennium Sealed

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Michele - Saturn Rings
(Fallout FOLP-2003)
Limited 180g Virgin Vinyl Reissue 1000copies. Numbering 897/1000
Saturn Rings by Michele O'Malley, Original album issued
on ABC in 1969, is truly one of the lost psychedelic pop masterpieces.
O'Malley was a member of the Ballroom, and was a session vocalist
in Los Angeles, singing backup on Tommy Roe's It's Now Winters Day
and Sagittarius' Present Tense. West Coast popster and
legendary crazy man Curt Boettcher (leader of the Ballroom) was
heavily involved, with arrangements by Michael Melvoin and
session players including Lowell George (pre-Little Feat),
Bobby Notkoff (pre-Rockets), Elliot Ingber, Gordon Alexander,
and Bobby Jameson (aka songwriter Chris Lucey).
Boettcher either wrote or co-wrote seven of the album's 11 cuts,
and sings backup on the sessions as well.
To say the album bombed is an understatement.
It disappeared almost upon release, and O'Malley never made another one.
While the sound here is dated, there are some truly amazing moments
such as "Fallen Angel," with its beautiful sawing electric violin
floating through the mix above the acoustic guitars, tabla drums,
and electric bass. O'Malley's voice just soars and glides between
Western melody and Eastern modalism effortlessly.
Some of the psychedelic pop arrangements have the feeling
of some stranger than strange nostalgia -- like a sound that is familiar,
but its textures are strange and alien, such as on
"Spinning, Spinning, Spinning," with a harpsichord and either an oboe
or soprano saxophone and strings. O'Malley wrote "Song to a Magic Frog"
for Sagittarius, and the arrangement on this version is lush,
full of elegant textures and richly layered instrumentation.
Her voice is where the real "magic" lies, however. She moves through
the melody with a meld of passion and restraint and creates hooks
where there are none. The truth of the matter is, that with bands like
Belle & Sebastian out there, if Saturn Rings were released today
it would be regarded as a quirky masterpiece. Its production and
arrangement excesses for the time -- which made it inaccessible
to the masses -- would now be heard as the work of genius.
Michele O'Malley's sole album is an unfairly neglected
West Coast folk-psych gem. Featuring the involvement of cult legends
such as Curt Boettcher (Sagittarius, Millennium), Lowell George (Little Feat)
and Elliott Ingber (Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart),
it's a dreamy collection of Eastern-influenced West Coast pop
that deserved to achieve much greater success on its original release in 1969.
Producer: Mike Desy For Equinox Productions
Arranger: Mike Melvoin.
Personnel: Michele O'Malley (vocals); Bobby Narcoff (electric violin);
Bobby Notkoff (electric viola); Elliot Ingber (guitar, electric guitar);
Lowell George (flute, harmonica); Michele O'Malley, Curt Boettcher.
Illustrators: Dean Torrence; Bob Masse.
Recording information: 1969.
Deadstock Sealed Copy from Local store stock.
(We don't have extra copy)

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All Visual Gradings Condition - Cover / Disc
Sealed


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