Tuesday 24 July 2012

Comus-First Utterance

First Blog Utterance
     Lp/Day is gonna happen like this now.  Even cooler than facebook don't ya think? I'll try to keep cataloged by date as this goes on too, so come back here whenever ya like to catch what will likely be lots of old prog, fusion, psychedelic, electronic, and folk music.

     Starting off right, with a pagan psych/folk band that only David Bowie could appreciate. "Comus", after the Greek god of chaos use pretty full instrumentation and on their first album entirely acoustic instruments with exception to a Fender bass but between many experimental sounds and techniques, wildly diverse vocal styles, some dark themes, and pagan influence this album hits pretty damn heavy. They released the album "First Utterance" in '71, disbanded shortly after only to reform a few years later, disband again, and out of obscurity reform nearly 40 years later for an Equinox Festival in the UK and a Prog Boat Festival in Sweden called Mellotronen. They've since released another album as well as some live material from '72?! I'm definitely hunting that down.

Comus-First Utterance





    

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