Touch - 1969 - Touch

Going through and listening to old American groups sometimes faced with such unique creations that are difficult to describe, even now. In the late 60's opuses such as this one, it was simply incomprehensible: like psychedelia, anything from jazz, some classical bells and whistles, long irregular composition, diverse topics without a clear structure and style. It is now clear that recorded in 1968, the only release from the Cleveland quintet simply ahead of his time, paving the bridge from the traditional "acid" rock to new, complex and elitist forms of music. Nothing like that then do not perform, because I would have called "Touch" (good name, though there was one team under the same name), pioneers of the progressive style, and the album is a classic! The first track is quite chaotic psycho-hardovy We Feel Fine, executed in the spirit of the time, something resembling the works of Iron Buttefly and Vanilla Fudge, with lots of mellotron Don Galyuchi and high vocals Jeff Hawks. Then begins the innovation and departure from tradition: Poem Friendly Birds clear at the beginning, comes to life with unexpected jazz piano and guitar passages - something like that come to play later Nice British. Dominating piercing piano chords are catching up with us in the next track Miss Teach, energetic rock 'n' Roll squared deviations and unexpected modulations - not a masterpiece. But in the nine-composition The Spiritual Death Of Howard Greer, the magic begins - is a powerful polyphonic chants canvas with the afterlife, peak vocal vibrato, changes of rhythms and soaring keyboards. In a word progressive business, which later evolved into Uriah Heep Salisbury. Then something avangadno-psychedelic instrumental in the composition Down At Circ's Place - a deadly dirty dampness theme with a distinct flavor of the early works of Frank Zappa. Then, a beautiful ballad Alesha And Others, turning into a swing, well, who played so !? Unconditional masterpiece - an epic album crowning Seventy Five. The work lasts longer than 11 minutes and is, in my opinion, the musicians creative peak. Classic progressive fabric with desperate guitar watering Joey Newman and complex twists inherent in the genre (slightly spoil the impression of distorted high-pitched sounds). When reissue on CD (Renaissance, 1993), seven tracks of the base material is ideally complemented by five bonuses. This included the previously unreleased song We Finally Met Today (not a good thing), two alternative versions of the basic material and, most importantly, recorded in 1973, an instrumental soundtrack The Second Coming of Suzanne, showing magnificent mellotron and fine pieces with piano and harpsichord. Of the bonus package stands amazing Blue Feeling. Write TOUCH this album a few years later, I would have appreciated an album on the strength of seven or eight points out of ten, but let me remind the material was written in 1968 - because the highest score!

Genre: Psychedelic Rock | Proto-Prog
Country: USA
Year: 1969 (2003)
Audio codec: MP3
Riptype: tracks
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Playtime: 00:55:44
Size: 131 MB

:
01 – We Feel Fine [00:04:39]
02 – Friendly Birds [00:04:52]
03 – Miss Teach [00:03:28]
04 – The Spiritual Death Of Howard Greer [00:08:52]
05 – Down At Circe’s Place [00:03:59]
06 – Alesha And Others [00:03:04]
07 – Seventy Five [00:11:47]
08 – Blue Feeling (Bonus) [00:11:45]
09 – Alesha And Others (Alternate Version) [00:03:15]

Members:
- John Bordonaro / drums
- Don Gallucci / keyboards
- Bruce Hauser / bass
- Jeff Hawks / vocals
- Joey Newman / guitars

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