Here's the band lip-syncing "Flight From Ashiya" on tv (as well as an inessential early single "Holiday Maker"):Ħths 70s Obscurities A Girl Called Eddy Action Adrian Belew Aerovons Aguaturbia Aimee Mann Alarm Alastair Riddell Alicia Witt All My Favorite Songs Alvvays Amazing Ambient Ambulance LTD America American Dream Americana Amps Amy Rigby Anais Mitchell Anderson Council Andy Summers Anna Burch Anthony Phillips Any Trouble Apple Apples In Stereo Archies Area Arms of Someone New Asteroid #4 Aztec Camera B-52's Bad Moves Bad Religion Badfinger Band Band of Horses Bangles Barbara Manning Barbra Streisand Baroque Pop Bats Bauhaus Be-Bop Deluxe Beach Boys Beach Slang Beachwood Sparks Beagle Hat Bears Beat Farmers Beat Of The Earth Beatles Beatlesque Beau Brummels Bee Gees Belly Ben Folds Five Ben Lee Ben Vaughn Best Coast Beths Bettie Serveert Beulah Big Audio Dynamite Big Dipper Big Red Machine Big Star Billy Joel Bishop Allen Bjork Black Nasty Black Watch Blake Babies Blanketman Bleached Blossom Toes Blue Blue Cartoon Blues Bluetones Bo Burnham Bob Dylan Bob Mould Bon Iver Bongos Bonny Doon Book Of Love Bootlegs Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness Breeders Brewer & Shipley Brian Eno Brian Jonestown Massacre Brian Protheroe Brinsley Schwarz British Invasion Britpop Bruce Springsteen Bubblegum Buffalo Springfield Built To Spill Bull Butch Cassidy Buzzcocks Byrds Call Camera Obscura Camper Van Beethoven Captain Beefheart Captain Beyond Captain Sensible Caravan Carole King Carpenters Cars Cat Stevens Charlatans Charly Bliss Cheap Trick Chesterfield Kings Children's Music Chills Chris Bell Chris Forsyth Chris Spedding Christmas Music Circles Around The Sun Clash Classic Rock Classical Music Clean Cleaners From Venus Cliff Hillis Close Lobsters Cocteau Twins Colleen Green College Radio Compilations Connections Connells Continental Drifters Cosmic Rough Riders Cotton Mather Courtney Barnett Cowpunk Cream Creeper Lagoon Cross Country CSNY Culpeper's Orchard Cure Curt Boettcher Damned Dan Lyons Dandy Warhols Daniel Johnston Danny & Dusty Darling Buds Dave Depper Dave Edmunds David Bowie David Crosby David Gilmour Dawn Eden dB's Dead Milkmen Death Cab For Cutie Del Lords Dentist Depeche Mode Derek And The Dominos Devo Died Pretty DIIV Dinosaur Jr. (The compilation Dive Into Yesterday combines the bulk of the two albums plus the afore-referenced singles, and is all the Kaleidoscope you really need.) The band later changed its name to Fairfield Parlour for some reason, releasing a few albums that were more folk & prog oriented, but which had some truly beautiful songs that are largely lost to history. The follow-up album, 1969's Faintly Blowing, is arguably more substantial, a little less quaint and more deliberately experimental, moving towards prog. My version of the CD (but, alas, not the version of the record that streams on Spotify) adds a few singles that outshine the album - the sharp psychedelia of "A Dream for Julie" and particularly "Jenny Artichoke," a more traditional British Invasion pop song that is by far the catchiest song the band recorded, though stylistically different from the rest of their output. Small The Watch-Repairer Man" and the sweet "Dear Nellie Goodrich." It falls off a bit at the end, with the Donovan-like spoken-word "A Lesson Perhaps" and the lengthy, folk-tinged narrative epic "The Sky Children," both eminently skippable, but overall it's a nice enough record for fans of the genre. The eponymous opener "Kaleidoscope" is gentle psychedelia, as are similar tunes like the ponderous "Dive Into Yesterday" and "Flight From Ashiya." Other tracks lean towards the whimsical side, pretty and very British, like the charming "Mr. Tangerine Dream, their debut, is quite solid, certainly not as essential as other records of the era but still packed with some highly melodic, occasionally trippy tunes. Pepper and Piper at the Gates of Dawn, though leaning heavily towards more twee bands like the Bee Gees and early Moody Blues. Whereas the UK band took their cues from the usual suspects, bits of Sgt. The US Kaleidoscope, based in L.A., was more analogous to other West Coast bands like the Grateful Dead and Moby Grape, integrating elements of folk and blues and American traditional music (as well as more esoteric Eastern music) into their experimental sound. It gets confusing because there were two psych bands with the same name at the time. Heading back now to one of my biggest passions, the British psychedelic era of the late 60s.
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