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The Beat of The Earth "This Record is an Artistic Statement"Radisch -  RAD001LP
2015 Vinyl ReissueLimited to 300 Copies
Sleeve is a generic white cover with xerox color copy of front/rear artwork glued. No credits on spine.
Exact reproduction of original labels.
New unplayed record.
See their other record "Electronic Hole" Also for sale.



Beat Of The Earth was assembled by Phil Pearlman, who had earlier released
a surf/hot rod 45 Chrome Reversed Rails (shown as by Phil and The Flakes, on the Fink label).
One of the earliest known electric experimental bands, The Beat Of The Earth sound
very similar to their East-coast counterparts The Velvet Underground
These two records were recorded live in the studio during the summer of 1967 and consist of long,
unstructured jams using a myriad of acoustic and electric instruments.
This early incarnation of the band is the one most familiar to collectors and copies
of the first album have been changing hands for hundred of dollars since the mid-80s.
The music the band produced during this period is not for everybody
(compare to the long tracks on the first two Velvet Underground albums), but their debut
remains an unusual and rare item of significance from the California rock scene.

"The music was free-form, original, and unrehearsable, since it was all spontaneous. I remarked to Phil that it was the steady thrum one experienced when you went to a Love-In. All these small groups of musicians playing guitars, tambourines, flutes, auto-harps, bongos, anything that made sound, all simultaneously, created a type of orderly orchestral sound. The combined beats were primitive, primal, the beat of the earth..."

Velvet Underground, Godz, Cromagnon, ESP-Disk, Trad, Gras, Stenar, Parson Sound, Harvester, Faust, Can, NWW, 13th Floor Elevators, Red Crayola, Mystic Siva, The Index. Damon, Silver Apples