Monk - Rare undiscovered UK 60s / 70s psych prog acetate - Full Album!
Apparently you can’t always get what you want. But that ain’t so bad.
This is an absurdly obscure psych / prog acetate which I found most unexpectedly in 2005 in a charity shop in Camberwell, London. It was hidden away in the cover of a highly generic poptastic sleeve for The Mike Morton Congregation’s not particularly sought after ’Non Stop Hits – Volume 4’. The only reason I looked at it was because the contents felt a bit chunkier than usual – and I’m pleased I did. I’m not sure Mike’s LPs are great sellers in charityland, so in all likelihood, if I hadn’t found it, this music would likely be lying underground in about 5000 jagged shards beneath a tip somewhere on the outskirts of the capital.
It was priced at £1 but I think (to my eternal shame) I managed to acquire the record for 50p, as I pointed out to the cashier it was scratched. If you listen to it all the way through, you’ll hear that it was an incredible bargain, as I probably got £1000 rather than 50p worth of scratches for my small change. Plus more skips than your average primary school playground on lunchbreak.
The record bears an IBC studios label, which is not insignificant. IBC (International Broadcasting Company) studios were used by a succession of A-list sixties musos, including such luminaries as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Kinks, mod gods The Action and a lesser group known as The Beatles. As such – and given there are some interesting production flourishes on the record – it’d be very interesting to learn about the talent involved, and why the record doesn’t appear to have been released.
Content-wise, the LP is pleasingly eclectic. It ranges from flirtations with pastoral folkism - ’House In The Country’ through trippy sound collage – ’Fantasy 2’ – to ballsy rock – ’Lover’ – and the pulsing reverberations of ’And So To Bed’ ’. ’Don’t Talk To Me’ is transcendent heavy cosmic prog. Datewise, I’m guessing this was recorded 1968-73? Given the name of the artist, and track titles like ’The Beast’ and ’Jesu’, I suspect that this might be a concept album too, and that the group could be of a religious inclination – but there’s nothing else to evidence this.
I’d be delighted to learn more about the music and the group – who from the evidence herein were a talented bunch and invested a lot of effort in this.
Apologies for the more than occasional pops / skips / jumps – and the irritating grinding background noise throughout side 2. Sadly the record has suffered some audible abuse! But the band plays on ...
So, through a audio haze of sizzling bacon, here’s what is likely to be the premiere release of this curio.
Tracklist:
A1 Fantasy 1: The Journey - 00:00
A2 Sit Back, Relax
A3 House In The Country
A4 Lazy Day
A5 A Light In The Window
A6 Fantasy 2: The Beast
B1 Jesu – 23:13
B2 Lover
B3 And So To Bed
B4 Intermezzo
B5 Don’t Talk About Me
B6 Through An Electric Glass Darkly
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