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Spirit - Spirit (1968) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2017]

Posted By: Designol

Date: 16 Jun 2024 23:15:03

Spirit - Spirit (1968) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2017]

Spirit's 1968 debut album spent more than six months on the Billboard album charts and received heavy airplay on underground FM radio. Their music was part of the core, essence, and heartbeat of the the hippie, psychedelic, counter culture movement. The album is timeless, as fresh today as when it first appeared.

The band could play more styles than almost any other group. On Spirit they unveiled a mélange of rock, jazz, blues, folk-rock, and even a bit of classical and Indian music. The music is experimental. The vocals flow as easily as the instrumentals. Spirit struck a careful balance between disciplined studio chops, jazz improvisation, and driving rock and roll. Guitar prodigy Randy California is a clear standout, but the other band members are superb as well; John Locke's shimmering keyboards, Mark Andes' subsonic wall of bass, and Ed Cassidy's precision drumming. Big credit has to go to lead singer Jay Fergusson, whose phrasing is always just right with a wonderful spontaneous feel. The Marty Paich string arrangements are sublime.

The songs tackled unusual lyrical themes, like "Fresh Garbage" and "Mechanical World" while "Uncle Jack" showed some solid psych-pop instincts. And, it has long been debated if Led Zeppelin lifted the opening guitar lines of Spirit's "Taurus" for their own much more famous "Stairway to Heaven."

This is an essential album if ever there was one, and it would prove impossible to trace any musical time line without the inclusion of Spirit, and in particular, this body of work.

Spirit's debut unveiled a band that seemed determine to out-eclecticize everybody else on the California psychedelic scene, with its melange of rock, jazz, blues, folk-rock, and even a bit of classical and Indian music. Teenaged Randy California immediately established a signature sound with his humming, sustain-heavy tone; middle-aged drummer Ed Cassidy gave the group unusual versatility; and the songs tackled unusual lyrical themes, like "Fresh Garbage" and "Mechanical World." As is often the case in such hybrids, the sum fell somewhat short of the parts; they could play more styles than almost any other group, but couldn't play (or, more crucially, write) as well as the top acts in any given one of those styles. There's some interesting stuff here, nonetheless; "Uncle Jack" shows some solid psych-pop instincts, and it sounds like Led Zeppelin lifted the opening guitar lines of "Taurus" for their own much more famous "Stairway to Heaven".

Review by Richie Unterberger, Allmusic.com

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Tracklist:

01. Fresh-Garbage (3:13)
02. Uncle Jack (2:45)
03. Mechanical World (5:17)
04. Taurus (2:38)
05. Girl in Your Eye (3:18)
06. Straight Arrow (2:52)
07. Topanga Windows (3:38)
08. Gramophone Man (3:50)
09. Water Woman (2:11)
10. The Great Canyon Fire in General (2:48)
11. Elijah (10:49)
12. Veruska (3:06)
13. Free Spirit (4:31)
14. If I Had a Woman (3:14)
15. Elijah (alternate take) (9:44)

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EAC extraction logfile from 10. September 2017, 20:04

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Official DR value: DR12

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