Wednesday 31 July 2019

Screaming Gypsy Bandits Back to Doghead







I've known of this band for many years thanks to the slightly proggy album they released in 1973 called In the Eye, their only official release (reissued in the 1990s), and note, it was dedicated to the once ultra famous Charles Bukowski now utterly forgotten.  To my complete shock I found out recently that a collection of unreleased material from Screaming Gypsy Bandits came out called Back to Doghead, which was full-out progressive rock, and chronologically preceding the official release.
We're talking unusual harmonies, chord changes, abrupt tempo switches, gratuitous weirdness, etc.  So for their personal history clearly they toned down the insanity of their roots for the record company.

Rot Nozzle has a distinctly Zappaesque influence, obviously:





I love how the track called Shells meanders its way through such a spacey atmosphere:





And the pentatonic electric guitar riff which starts out sounding so humdrum proceeds into uncharted territory quite soon enough on Medicine, evolving again throughout like the previous example into a much more grandiose thing:





There is quite a bit trash in here too, but that's to be expected.



10 comments:

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  2. sadowski three thousand points of light reup
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ns4hn8

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  3. reup james dean by yuji ohno
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/mwgtpv

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  4. the three fukamachi packages reupped again
    https://we.tl/t-ZkTlLYofDd
    https://we.tl/t-fANhoUBVGE
    https://we.tl/t-O34IrZaKuA

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    1. Damn way more than I expected here! Thank you very much

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    2. Wow thank you,Julian!
      I love to 'discover'(new music):)
      Love Jun F. Wonderful! ,I'll go through all!;)
      Only 1 question,is it possible that you can re-up..
      Yuji Ohno "inugamike & proof of the man"
      I like james dean too.. good!
      Thank you so much for all good music!;)
      Nilo

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  5. Thanks - most definitely an interesting band. Five-six of these tunes are really quite unique and forward thinking. And its a shame that the brilliant voice of Caroline Peyton wasn't picked up by someone who could put it to good use.

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  6. Hi Julian and many thanks for the sensational albums !

    Please, can you re-up this one ?

    Best,
    Stefan

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  7. new up
    https://www.sendspace.com/file/vi2qw0
    where do you live?

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