UNOBSTRUCTED UNIVERSE 1976 Funk Acid JAZZ Psych ADAMO 9503 Arnie Lawrence RARE
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May 29, 2014
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UNOBSTRUCTED UNIVERSE 1976 Funk Acid JAZZ Psych ADAMO 9503 Arnie Lawrence RARE!
ON ADAMO CAT# ADS-9503 (ORG 1976 US PRESSING)
UNOBSTRUCTED UNIVERSE "SELF TITLED"
SEE ACTUAL PHOTOS FOR DETAILS
VINYL IS VG+ (VERY GLOSSY WITH FEW LIGHT MARKS)
JACKET IS VG (seam split on top)
Very scarce and hard to find, RARE! Only one avail. on eBay and hard to find anywhere!
Not Released On CD!
Unobstructed Universe is: Ron McClure (bass); Arnie Lawrence (saxophone); Ted Irwin (guitar); Luther Rix (percussion); Dick Hyman (keyboards); & Mike Knotts (keyboards).
TRACKS:
A1. Unobstructed Universe (30:22); B1. Dr. Suess Ballet (15:35); B2. Bach Style Piece For Organ And Electric Piano (1:58).
This obscure project's lone album is a truly unique piece of experimental jazz-rock. Things start off in a fairly "groovy" manner, but weirdness soon sets in, with psych guitar, ring-modulated electric piano and freaky "electronic sax" all over the place, sounding almost like Xhol Caravan's Tim Belbe jamming with Yuji Imamura & Air on a bad acid trip. It only gets crazier from there, going completely off the deep end by the conclusion of the first side-long track. Side two is a little more sedate, shifting between eerie atmospherics and jazzier sections.This group was the brainchild of Arnie Lawrence, who was once a member of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show orchestra (!?), but also had a long-running interest in experimental, psychedelic forms of jazz. As you listen, try to keep in mind that this madness was the creation of a man who once played alongside Doc Severinsen. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!
On the back of the album is a blurb-like quote from downbeat, "The first time I listened to this music, I was awed. It's so unlike all the other synthesis music, the jazz-rock whatever. It's cosmic without being pretentious and down to earth without being trivial, at once freaky and funky, and altogether of the spirit, created in a free get-together of the spirit. All that happens happens because they're creating it as they will, out of and into all that they happen to be. And the more I listened, the more I was out of and into myuself, which is what this music is about."
No question the album and band name are from a book by Stewart Edward White (1940) which dealt with spirituality, and life after death. This is what the blurb is trying to suggest in typical seventies-speak I think. The unobstructed universe is thus open to spiritual movements throughout its range. What Dr Seuss is doing there, I have no idea.
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