Jerry Cole
The Astro-Sound From Beyond The Year 2000DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2017Release Date: 4/22/2017
Format: LP
Label: Modern Harmonic
Quantity: 630
Release type: RSD Limited Run / Regional Focus Release
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Guitar mastery meets the space age bachelor pad with a healthy mix of controversy. The Astro-Sound of Magnificence, from Beyond the Year 2000...a unique capsule of a funky, psychedelic rhythm section jamming, with snarling, stabbing and swooshing cranked-up-to-infinity electric guitar voyages piloted by Wrecking Crew veteran Jerry Cole, polished and primed for takeoff with a string section playing eerie, beckoning melodies in unison. These are the sounds of epiphanies concerning the future, space and sounds on the horizon, circa 1969. The tracks for this album were recorded by Cole and other players during sessions for a separate longplayer and were deemed to be outtakes; the details as to how they became Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000 are dark and distant, but the 10 tracks here were first issued sans strings in 1967 as The Animated Egg, with alternate song titles. Two years later the recordings were overdubbed with the swirling, piercing phase-shifted strings mix you hear here, creating a spectacular fusion of psych-rock, R&B, easy listening and fuzz guitar, with hints of the coming worlds of ambient and electronica. These truly are the far out sounds of tomorrow’s unchartered trip, as the original album jacket proclaims—come aboard, launch and listen. Available on gold vinyl or CD.
SIDE ONE 01 Flameout 02 Re-Entry To Mog 03 Space Odyssey 04 Astral Freakout 05 Orbit Fantasy
SIDE TWO 01 Barrier X-69 02 A Disappointing Love With A Desensitized Robot 03 Where Were You In 1982? 04 Trippin' On Lunar 07 05 A Bad Trip Back To '69
