RARE '70s ORIG SHRINK ACID ARCHIVES PARASITE LOVERS & FRIENDS Lounge PSYCH
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ORIGINAL '70s PRIVATE PRESS FIRST PRESS MINT IN FACTORY CELLOPHANE
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Lovers AND Friends
"PARASITE"
USA - ARIES (PRIVATE PRESS)
::: BEAUTIFUL TOP COPY :::
STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE and MINT all over every aspect of this item!
Original Incredible Strange Music artifact...straight from the ACID ARCHIVES
This is a mega-rare '70s private pressing by Lovers & Friends titled Parasite - I Want To Go Home With You from 1977. It was issued with what appears to be a plain white cover with PARASITE hand written on front but it's actually pre-printed on front. Only some 5 copies have apparently been offered in the past with sales getting into the three $$$figures....
This Massachusetts lounge group's only album, and what a bizarre and beautiful strangeness it is! Experimental lounge-rock 'heads' creating psychedelic noise and howling, long jams, and moments of regularity that last only a few minutes before taking a u-turn and blowing your mind all over again. This is really one truly "far-out" album to the extreme!! Recommended to fans of psychedelia, experimental rock, jazz-rock, but probably not for typical fans of lounge music (even though technically the music here is lounge first and everything else second)
Further on, the FAN-man sez:::: the album is a rather amiable pastiche of hippie goofball roots music and straight lounge band renditions, with one inexplicable moment. The former features a male vocalist doing stoned rambling and rather loose instrumental arrangements. This is exemplified by the rock & roll medley, which has the most restrained r'n'r instrumental backing for a totally wasted, over-the-top singer. The lounge selections feature a bubbly female singer over super tight arrangements. Their rendition of "Send In The Clowns" ranks in the TOP ECHELON of lounge covers. The overall effect of the juxtaposition of these two styles produces the most schizoid musical statement since Robert Schumann split into Florestan and Eusebius. Now for that inexplicable moment, which is actually 8 minutes long and falls into both styles. "Misty" has a 5+ minute intro for a 2 1/2 minute song. It starts off innocently enough, then suddenly veers into proto industrial space, surely earning this the right to be included on an updated Nurse With Wound list. Think Amon Duul playing at your local cocktail lounge. Atonal guitar shards abruptly morph into fiddle-led hoe-down as the intro (called on the label "Intro") ends and the vocal portion (called on the label "The Rest") commences, with a hillbilly vocal that reminds one of Arthur Godfrey's singing on the 2nd Moby Grape l.p. Please note that all the goings on described here are all on the tune "Misty". The l.p. comes in a not surprisingly rather odd cover with the word "Parasite" appearing hand written but it is actually pre printed & on the spine as well. The back cover and the labels call the band "Lovers & Friends". The back also has a series of 36 photos of random objects, and appears to be out of the Jandek school of photography. The labels, rather then calling the sides 1 & 2, call them "Side Of Recluses" and "Windy Side".
Side ONE (Windy Side)
The Girl From Ipanema
Blue Eyed Soul
I Want To Go Home With You
rock & Roll
My Dog
B: (side of recluses)
Betst Pizza-pie Eye
Heart Of The Country
Piece de Resistance
Send In The Clowns
Misty
Prelude to Loose
CONDITION: The cover: rated: MINT ... a beautiful top copy in factory cellophane ... 4 sharp corners, flat & square with a fresh appearance -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... VERY collection worthy appearance ...
The vinyl: Rated: MINT- top copy; filled with shine and delivers very clean/enjoyable audio. ...play back is without ANY surface problems ... both private labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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