THOMAS EDISUN'S ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB BAND - RED DAY ALBUM 67 POP PSYCH SLD LP +7"

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THOMAS EDISUN’S ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB BAND – The Red Day Album. Guerssen GUESS 124 LP. Spanish release. FACTORY SEALED VINYL RECORD ALBUM + 7" (sealed inside jacket with the LP). Originally recorded in 1967 but never released. This is its debut release issued in 2014. Includes a bonus 7” which reproduces their rare single for the Tamm Label. Remastered from the original tapes. Comes with photo/detailed liner note insert written by Jeremy Cargill (Ugly Things/Got Kinda Lost Records). MEMBERS:  Richard Orange, Gary Simon Bertrand, Kim Foreman, and Clay Smith. TRACKS:  I’m Here (Intro), Red Day, Have You Been To The Light, Common Attitude, Hope, No One’s Been Here For Weeks, Walk Out With Your Heart, Champion, I’m Right Here, I’ll Join The Army, Merlin, Breathe, Alexander Graham Bell, Concord World, Marigold, Send Me Your Picture, and Dream Me Up Snotty (Outro). BONUS 7” SINGLE TRACKS:  Common Attitude b/w No One’s Been Here For Weeks. DESCRIPTION:  Very dreamy psychedelic pop, some of their music reminded me of the pop side of the Velvet Underground. Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band attained a good amount of recognition in their home state of Louisiana during the 1960s. June 1967 was the date the group put together a full-length longplayer, but the sessions remained in the can. Better late than never, as they say, and decades on, The Red Day Album has risen from its forty-five plus year coma. Plastered with plucky and polished choruses, circled by experimental detours, The Red Day Album proves to be an ambitious and challenging affair. The influence of the Beatles, the Kinks, the Zombies, Merry-Go-Round/Emitt Rhodes, and the Monkees can’t be denied, but all songs on the disc are original and sail beyond mere parroting. In fact, some of the expressions presented here are so peculiar that, if you didn’t already know, it would be impossible to tell exactly when the album was recorded. Not only did Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band think and work outside the box, but they also transported into the future, as images and impressions of acts like Genesis, Queen, and Jellyfish haunt the soundscape. A fondness for mixing vaudeville, cabaret styled moves, and dance hall music with modern maneuvers frequents much of the material featured on The Red Day Album. Frisky, cheeky, and instantly catchy tunes such as Send Me Your Picture, Champion, and I’ll Join The Army especially fit in this curious category. Dreamy and peaceful, Breathe floats upon a calm sea of mind-bending raga rock riffs, Concord World twirls around and around with coiling power chords, and Red Day is a glimmering gem of pure pop persuasions. Rife with jammy acid-washed guitars and spacey sensations, Hope trembles with adventurous instrumental kicks, and the urgent aggression of Have You Been To The Light yields a bit of a bluesy edge. Shaped of unusual hooks, melodies and arrangements, The Red Day Album makes for a very fine psychedelic pop experience. Not bound by rules, Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band aimed to craft a piece of music pairing conventional ideas with freaky insights, at which they succeeded quite well in doing so. Although Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band soon disappeared from the scene, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter Richard Orange stayed in the biz, penning songs for Cyndi Lauper, Starship, Jane Wiedlin from the Go Go’s, Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons, and Brazilian pop star Deborah Blando. Richard’s most recent effort is a solo album, Big Orange Sun, and was mixed and recorded at the legendary Sun studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the other members went on to 70s power-pop legends Zuider Zee.  

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