SOUND FOUNDATION s/t V Rare Orig 1971 US Heavy Psych Funk on Smobro Breaks
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Sound Foundation
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Very Rare original US Psych Funk LP released on Smobro Records in 1971. 1st US Pressing.
Sound Foundation consisted of Kim Kesterson (bass), Lenny Macaluso (guitar-bass-vocals), Billy Ray Morris (drums), Nick Farkas (organ-reeds-vocals), Daniel Dick (trumpet-vocals), and Rick Kellis (woodwinds-vocals).
” I feel very strongly about the right of artists to exercise integrity in their creations. SMO-BRO RECORDS (short for Dick and I) want to be able to provide a platform for artists to express themselves without compromise. The SOUND FOUNDATION is a group of unique, creative young men, and is also their first release for SMO-BRO RECORDS. We think it’s a great choice to launch this record company.
Some time ago, I was invited to The Factory (a night club in L.A.) to see a very talented act. This group was excellent, but the band backing the up caught my eye. That was the SOUND FOUNDATION, which, by the way, had organized in Las Vegas, unique in today’s pop music scene because of it’s plastic commerciality. None of this rubbed off on the SOUND FOUNDATION, though.
The SOUND FOUNDATION makes an audience “ear-up and listen.” They are sophisticated musical craftsmen. Rick Kellis, the arranger, digs laying on and playing with complicated musical figures. It’s not always easy to dance to some of their arrangements, but it’s always fun and interesting to listen to them. Some of the songs (i.e. MORNING DEW, MAGIC CARPET RIDE and BRUISED) are direct and easy to understand. On the other hand, with each hearing of CLEAN UP YOUR ACT, LOVE LOVES TO LOVE LOVE, and GET OUT OF MY LIFE, WOMEN, you become more aware of the hard-driving, sophisticated “time figures’ and enjoyment grows with each subsequent exposure.
I once made a rule for myself that I would never get involved with anything that didn’t really “knock me out.” The SOUND FOUNDATION has not broken that rule for me. Another thing: regardless of the amount of talent that someone has, they have to be GOOD PEOPLE. The SOUND FOUNDATION has soul, integrity, and they are six beautiful people whom I am proud to be associated with. Their first album, as good as it is, is only an indication of the potential they possess.” (Jonny Smothers)
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. Morning Dew (Walk Me Out In The)
2. Magic Carpet Ride
3. Dear Prudence
4. Clean Up Your Act
5. Aquarius
Side Two
1. Bruised
2. Get Out Of My Life, Woman
3. Love Loves To Love Love
4. Gossimer Morning
5. Soul Foundation
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Released on Smobro Records in 1971
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Catalogue Number SBS 9001
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Record is in Vg + condition (couple of light surface marks)
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Sleeve is in Vg + condition (drill hole in top right corner and some dirty marks on the back)
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