Label: Alga Marghen

イタリアAlga Marghenが手掛ける初期音源第三弾!!1973年にカリフォルニアはパサデナで生まれた説明不要のLAFMS系スーパーバンドSmegma。2017年の[Look'n for Ya]、2018年の[Abacus Incognito]に続くグループ初期録音シリーズの三番目がリリース。版元解説通りジョン・ケージ、サン・ラー、キャプテン・ビーフハート、ワイルドマン・フィッシャー、アート・アンサンブル・オブ・シカゴからのインスピレーションを落とし込んだ超クールなフリークアウト・ミュージック集であり、全体通して続く疾走感の強い流れも素晴らしい!!

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This is alga marghen’s third installment of Smegma’s original “Suburban Primitive Avant-folk music” Period (1973-1975) based in Pasadena, featuring three previously unreleased tracks from the deep vault of their home recordings. In the beginning, the Band Smegma had only one rule. No Musicians.

Starting from scratch, they took the Road much less traveled. They were inspired by outsider musical artists of the time such as John Cage, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart, Wild Man Fisher, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, etc. and they recorded every experiment with youthful enthusiasm. Mostly they only succeeded in tormenting their own friends and neighbors (except for the few who joined the band), but somehow they never chose imitation, but stumbles on a path that allowed Past (shamanistic) and Future (space) sounds to lead the way.

The titled track gently pulls you in and carries you off with a way-out inner-mind group Jamming/not-Jamming trip, featuring Prepared Piano, Modular Synthesizer, Human Mouth sounds, Pan Pipes, Tabla and Electric Bass Guitar. “Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow” (definitely not the 1960s pop Hit) rips you straight into a high energy New Year's Eve Party Jam, in a romping free jazz style with stream of consciousness vocals and exuberant alto sax solos.

Side B starts with Beatnik finger Popping and wild dogs barking from a record player, while breathless flute playing leads you down the rabbit hole of mysterious group vocalizing, including imitating the cry of the wild Tropical Parrots that lived in the palm trees in the front yard of the house in Pasadena that they had lived in.

Always out of sync with their own time, 49 years later, these tracks still throb and pulsate Beautifully with their own inner logic.