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Cauldron 1968 Album

Cauldron Cauldron
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1968-12-01
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Cauldron is the first album from San Francisco-based psychedelic rock band Fifty Foot Hose. The album features a variety of homemade synths formed by the hands of bassist Louis "Cork" Marcheschi.
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Kim Kimsey
Kim Kimsey
Drums, Percussion
Terry Hansley
Terry Hansley
Electric Bass
Louis "Cork" Marcheschi
Louis "Cork" Marcheschi
Audio Generators, theremin, Electronics, Siren
Larry Evans
Larry Evans
Guitars, Vocals
David Blossom
David Blossom
Guitars, piano, Kalimba
Tracklist
1. And After 2m 5s
2. If Not This Time 3m 40s
3. Opus 777 22s
4. The Things That Concern You 3m 25s
5. Opus 11 22s
6. Red the Sign Post 2m 55s
7. For Paula 24s
8. Rose 5m 3s
9. Fantasy 10m 8s
10. God Bless the Child 2m 42s
11. Cauldron 4m 55s

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They don't make albums like this anymore. Actually, they don't make albums like this in the first place! Louis "Cork" Marcheschi was an R&B musician and artist with an interest in experimental electronic music, and he was looking to blend it with rock sounds. I'm paraphrasing the story from various articles I've read, but eventually, he found someone who shared this idea, in the form of guitarist David Blossom, whose wife Nancy was a vocalist, and together they found enough players to form the band. To this end, Marcheschi created his own electronic instrument - a sort of a rudimentary synthesizer/effects machine - which accentuated what the rest of the band was doing on a more normal rock-and-pop level. If one can call that normal, since even the band's version of rock has an overall menacing edge to it, further driven by Nancy Blossom's paranoid-sounding vocals. Marcheschi's instrument really creates chaos, by adding notes to guitar lines and drum beats, words to vocals that really should not be there, and so on, giving one the effect of a very, on-the-edge-of-your-seat, psychedelic experience. And then, it goes deeper into the depths of the psyche, on tracks like "Fantasy", and the harrowing title track - which is revolting to hear, yet gripping to the point you have to hear how it progresses….Marcheschi was able to obtain the masters and reissued the album in the 90's with bonus tracks, which include an early, VERY avant-garde single called "Bad Trip" which was recorded with an early act of his, The Ethix. Very adventurous ears looking for progressive sounds from the past will love this one.
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