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| | | drag city (usa) #dc 092 cd the red crayola “live 1967” double compact disc set - angry arts festival
thursday june 29, 1967
venice pavillion concert, afternoon
venice motel, evening: piece one
venice motel, evening: piece two
- berkeley folk music festival
friday june 30 - tuesday july 4, 1967
7/2, evening: "dust"
7/3, afternoon: red crayola w/john fahey
7/4, afternoon: jubilee concert at hearst greek theater
(radio broadcast on kqed, san francisco)
| | drag city press release... |
| recorded live in venice beach, california and at the berkeley folk festival, berkeley, california in june and july 1967.
a strange archival release of '60s maverick psychedelic band the red crayola. this double cd represents a vital missing link in the group's three-decade history. on its first album, the parable of arable land, red crayola linked rock songs with bursts of frenzied group improvisations called "free form freak outs." their live sets were said to have consisted solely of noise, and this set provides the proof.
on both the concert tracks, the band indulges in earsplitting feedback for its own sake, even more abrasive and austere than anything the velvet underground, the mothers of invention, or the grateful dead did in concert at the time. the radio broadcast included here of their berkeley folk festival appearance finds a bewildered broadcaster assuming that the band is tuning up and will be starting their set momentarily. the audience response is predictably chaotic.
the tracks recorded in hotel rooms and with john fahey are considerably more sedate, similar to the instrumentals on the lost coconut hotel album (also issued by drag city). any lover of experimental music should appreciate live 1967, and hardy red crayola devotees will not be disappointed.
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despite penning a couple of classics of psychedelia on their first lp ('hurricane fighter plane' and 'transparent radiation'), the band showed up at the berkeley folk music festival in the summer of 1967 with a markedly different approach to ensemble playing. taking off from the concept of a 'free-form freak out', the red crayola leaned towards avant-garde approaches. playing feedback-pieces, sound-as-music, time- and no-time pieces, compressions and motions, one-second pieces, music within music, unhearable music and so on.
at the berkeley folk music festival they met john fahey, master of the indexes and finger picked guitar. he sat in on their set there. also included in this mind-melting collection of feedback drones, improvisation and unhearable music are recordings made in their venice hotel room after their concert there. these pieces represent the 'unplugged' crayola approach to their unconventional dictum, as well as their serious attitude towards this often lighthearted, intellectual-physical genre. |
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