SHIVA'S HEADBAND In The Primo Of Life - Original US LP - Texas Psych

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SHIVA'S HEADBAND

In The Primo Of Life

Original US LP released on Moontower Records in 1984.

Shiva's Headband, an early Texas psychedelic rock band, formed in Austin in 1967. The group was the house band at the Vulcan Gas Co., a late 1960s Austin nightclub. The band is credited with a significant role in the founding of the Armadillo World Headquarters, and was the first band to perform there. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, the band played with touring acts such as Spirit, Steppenwolf, ZZ Top, Janis Joplin, Canned Heat and Steve Miller. Austin psychedelic bands contemporary to Shiva's Headband included the 13th Floor Elevators and Conqueroo. "Led by Spencer Perskin, Shiva's Headband were well known on the 60s SF psychedelic scene for their strong live shows, scoring a Capitol Records deal in 1969. Returning to their home of Austin, TX during the 70s and beyond, the band released several albums and singles.

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You never know what changes time will bring, least of all with bands, but few have undergone the dramatic alteration of Shiva's Headband. Back in the '60s, the Texans reeled out a heady psychedelic-rock brew, but unlike most of their contemporaries, they kept on bubbling across the next decade and beyond. In the Primo of Life is an album true to its title and brimming with viv, vim, and good humour, so much so, that one can't help but savour every single minute within.

But it's the diversity of life that Headband celebrate here -- the joy of smoking ganja down at the "Riverside," the sensuous bite of "Chili Verde," the possibilities of the instrumental "Afrodeez." However, none of those songs's titles give wind to their actual sound; "Riverside" is indeed reggae based, but reggae as fabulously played by a genre-challenged Eastern European R&B band; "Chili" whirls through an urban-lite funk atmosphere, dragging that lost gypsy violinist along for the ride, while "Afrodeez" blends pattering congos to what sounds like Asian instruments, twittering birds, and evocative violin. Then there's "Banjoke," the joke being the banjo sounds like it's being played by a Balkan.

"Beginning" is even more humorous, a sparkling '80s rocker resplendent with organ, but driven by a bass riff ripped right out of the hands of Iron Butterfly's "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida." And neither "Woman's Blues," composed and sung by Suzy Perskin, nor bandleader Spencer Perskins' own "Why I Sing the Blues really fit the blues bill, the former too fast paced, the latter too sweet to be sorrowing, but both wonderful nonetheless. However, it's "Upside Down" that really captures the set's soul, with its good-time rocking feeling, and pick-yourself-up message.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Riverside
Chili Verde
Land Of Strangers
Afrodeez
Woman's Blues

Side Two

Beginning
Why I Sing The Blues
Upside Down
Banjoke
Dust To Dust

Released on 'Moontower Records' in 1984

Catalogue No. LP 1001

Disc is in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX++ condition

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