TURQUOISE / ターコイズ / FURTHER ADVENTURES OF FLOSSIE FILLETTE / CD

2枚のシングルを残して消えた60年代の英国ポップサイケバンド。68年から69年の間にレコーディングした音源をマスター・テープから収録。"VILLAGE GREEN"は、キース・ムーンやジョン・エントウィッスルがプロデュースを手掛けます。アップルの音楽出版部門と契約を交わしていたということでフォーカル・ポイントやグレープフルーツなどと並ぶキャッチーでドリーミーな音楽性が感じらる好ナンバー揃い。ポップサイケコンピ常連のバンドだっただけにまとめて聴けるこのCDは便利の一語です。前身のTHE BROODの2曲も出来が良く、疾走するブリティッシュビートが好きな人にはむしろこちらがハイライトか?

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RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2006

Cult UK pop-psych heroes Turquoise burst forth from Muswell Hill with two of the most perfectly formed pop singles of 1968 then seemingly went the way of so many of their contemporaries and vanished back to the building sites and tax offices of north London. But this story goes a lot deeper than that. Oh yes!

Friends and neighbours of Ray and Dave Davies: Ewan Stephens, Vic Jansen and Jeff Peters would watch with envy as the Kinks rose to global fame during the mid-1960s; eventually forming a band of their own. A little of the brothers influence inevitably rubbed off on The Brood (for twas they) with Dave producing demo sessions for them and touting the results round the labels to no avail. Through Dave, they were soon being managed by John Mason, the infamous car dealer to the stars , who had his clientsKeith Moon and John Entwistle produce another session for them in 1967. Mason then hooked The Brood up with another of Mason s clients, Tom Keylock, The Rolling Stones tour manager, who, along with Kirk Duncan of the Spencer Davis agency, secured them a recording contract with Decca, a publishing deal with Apple and a name change to Turquoise.

The next few months were spent rehearsing at the Stones space in London s Docklands, visiting various London recording studios, running with The Who and The Kinks and generally having a ball being young pop stars in swinging London. Although only two singles appeared 53 Summer Street b/w TalesOf Flossie Fillett and Woodstock b/w Saynia , now much-loved classics of the psychedelic pop genre - the band cut several tracks during this time which remained unreleased until now. However, the lack of a hit single and the fickle nature of the pop business inevitably resulted in Turquoise s premature demise in 1969.

The Further Adventures Of Flossie Fillet brings together every surviving recording made by The Brood and Turquoise between 1966 and 1969; including a virtual album sworth of prime 1968 pop in a Kinks/Who/Small Faces/Move style as well as alternate versions and demos. It features liner notes by noted psych/Apple authority Stefan Granados and brand new in-depth interview material with Turquoise main man Jeff Peters.