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                                            TOP COPY

           ~ RARE 1971 LAMINATED GERMAN ORIGINAL PRESSING ~ 

             EASTERN INFUSED HIPPIES PROG JAMMER

 

 

                 ~SWEET SMOKE~

            LIGHT TO DARKNESS

                              

            

\          GERMANY - ELECTROLA/ HARVEST Records - C 062 29471 

 

FINAL COLLECTION COPY!

RARE ...Original 1971 first pressing of the most scarce SWEET SMOKE album which finds a psychy / jazzy / folky / West Coast styled Europe based US commune band who interweave Eastern flavoured spiritual lyrics into some wonderful tunes. Electric guitars, sitars, percussion and great harmonies... A wonderful, happy, uplifting album...

Darkness To Light" is SWEET SMOKE's last studio album. This one has some shorter tracks but it's closer to progressive rock genre than their first. The music is more diverse, complex and thoughtfully composed. However, in some parts it still retains the jazz/prog-rock elemnts from their first album. Their typical sudden changes in mood and rhythm are also presented.  Welcome are the addition of keyboard and string instruments. We also like the singing and occasional beatlesque choir parts. The hippie imagery in the music and on the cover art is even more prominent than before. This is also notable in the epic track "Kundalini" which begins in Indo-fusion style: a crowd singing a mantra (a few people are out of tune, maybe it was intentional), ethnic percussion, instrumental improvisations, scat singing... It's slowly proceeding in more "conventional" prog-jazz-rock jam. The ending is a crazy counterpoint between guitar, piano, reeds, bass and drums. Trully stunning! "Show Me the War" is thoughtfully arranged and spiced with some dissonance. The title track has some awesome trippy and jazzy things going on. In the end they freak out... Other tracks are nice and simple songs with folky flute and a few intelligent twists. Maybe not all of you are "flower power" followers but there is something magical about this album that makes it interesting enough to keep wanting to play over. An underrated progressive-rock gem!

Side one

"Just An Empty Dream" – 4:20 "I'd Rather Burn Than Disappear" – 4:15 "Kundalini" – 13:25

Side two

"Believe Me My Friends" – 4:29 "Show Me The Way To The War" – 5:30 "Darkness To Light" – 12:51

 

CONDITION: The Cover: Fragile fully laminated gatefold in TOP M- beautiful shape...not easy to find like this...no bends, no writing, no split seams and virbrant bright original colors make this one to own...

The Vinyl: loads of smooth shine, rated: M- clean...plays fantastic and has CLEAN Harvest labels too 

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

 

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