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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