YAMA & THE KARMA DUSTERS / ヤマ&ザ・カルマ・ダスターズ / UP FROM THE SEWERS / CD

刑務所などでもライブ活動を行ったという反戦主義者、ハワード・バークマン率いるYAMA & THE KARMA DUSTERSが1970年にリリースした唯一作が再発。ラヴ・アンド・ピースを体現するかのように、非常にポリティカルな歌詞を引っさげたヒッピー集団が奏でる音楽はヴァイオリンのサウンドが妙に癖になるサイケの一つの化学反応のひとつ!! 66年あたりのディランとBLUES PROJECTの融合みたいな・・・RADIOACTIVEから既に再発済みなものの、LION盤はなんとボーナストラックを2曲収録!!詳細なブックレットも一見の価値があります!!

Super political, rocking, anti-establishment communal band (c. 1970) put together as a result of the Kent State Massacre. As the Euphoria Blimpworks Band, fronted by Howard Berkman from morose garage punksters the Knaves, they played demonstrations and student strikes when they werent opening for blues royaltyor being the first band to play the yard at Cook County Jail. They were inter-racial, anti-war, Stop the Bomb, free love hippies, the wildest of the wild kids. And this is the quintessential anarcho-hippie record, a surprisingly well-engineered indie effort which came inside home-made silk-screened jackets, with twisted, poetic lyrics (Dylan or Arthur Lee and Love? you decide), and funky, rocking bonespolitical, sociological, ecological, reflective and free-love sexy. The Karma Dusters really cook on the up-tempo tracks, sounding at times like a cross between The Blues Project and Dylan's band circa 1966, augmented by some dazzling violin. This excellent sounding master-tape reissue has two bonus tracks; it also hastwo bookletsone is for the outrageous and explicit Gonzo history of the band and their urban commune;the other is a wrap-around booklet for lyrics, all served up togetherin a Mylar plastic sleeve. You just know the FBI has a huge file on these punks. But do they have the album?


Track listing: 1. Dont Kill the Babies (2:09); 2. Take Me Back To Puerto Rico (3:32); 3. Kathleen (3:33); 4. Revolution (3:10); 5. C.T.A. (2:43); 6. I Want To Talk To You (2:54); 7. Reflections/Snow Bitch (6:28); 8. Wouldnt It Be Funny (4:02); 9. Evolution (2:38); 10. Hello Big City (4:24) Bonus Tracks: 11. Out in the World (2:42); 12. Los Angeles Earthquake (4:03)