16-01-2018, 13:20
(This post was last modified: 16-01-2018, 13:39 by CRAZY-HORSE.)
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GOLDEN AVATAR "a change of heart" vinyl, 1976:
one of the second hand vinyl's I purchased today...
knew nothing about the band, never even heard of them but I liked the cover art...
took some research on my part to find info on this band, but I managed to get some...
ok...a Ruby type epic post......!
i'll explain shortly, but on one hand after two listens I found this to be a work of genius,
whilst on the other hand an album that wants to be all things to all people thus sounding disjointed in the process...
so,
the album starts...
quite folky at the beginning, hearing shades of early George Harrison in the style, then I hear David Gates in the vocals...
by track four im hearing Moody Blues and further on im hearing Cat Stevens type pop/folk....
all good so far...
then I listen again, it is a bit of this, a bit of that, and some of the other, we have tracks that build with guitar solo's
reminiscent of Prog Rock but as soon as they appear theyre winding back to vocals again....
so im not sure if theyre really in the Prog zone or teetering around the edges simply getting their toes wet in the pond....
on to the album itself...
debut set....
apparently it was never available in store back in the day because it was what ne review calls "a musical enterprise by the Hare Krishna"
church....they apparently used to sell it on street corners to promote their religious beliefs, and this is where the George Harrison comparison I mentioned further up the page comes in, he was into that spirituality for a long long time, and the similarities are in the the lyrics of both Golden Avatar and some of GH's material....
no, there are no Hare chants on the album nor are there weird and wonderful instruments because the HK's were trying to get their message out to the populous...
still not sure what to make of the album even as im writing this, I guess "intriguing" would be the best word to describe it though and its probably worth a listen or two if you get the chance...
one of the uptempo ones that sound like Moody Blues to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLjooXYYVF8
and my favourite a folky tune with Cat Stevens overtones:
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.