THE FREAK SCENE / ザ・フリーク・シーン / PSYCHEDELIC PSOUL / CD

ココ最近のリリースの流れから言って、世界各地のサイケ・リイシューを行ってきたLION PRODUCITIONSが本腰を入れてUSサイケの古典的作品の再発に力を入れ始めたと感じざるを得ないリリースです。FREAK SCENEはご存知のようにラスティ・エヴァンスを中心としたサイケデリック・スタジオ・プロジェクトDEEPの続編にあたる作品で、詳しい説明はサイケ本に記載されていますのでそちらで是非・・・。さて、本LION盤にはボーナストラックとして9曲のDEMO音源が収録されていますがこれらは全て「PSYCHEDELIC MOODS(PART 5)-THE MARCUS DEMOS」に収録されていた音源でFREAK SCENEの後、70年にラスティ.エヴァンスが本名名義でリリースしたソロ作品のデモ音源と言われています。やはりFREAK SCENEのボーナスとして収録された意図が聴いて取れる選曲となっています。"I Dig Your Mind"はバンドサウンドながら、DEEPとFREAK SCENEを繋げるミッシングリンク的楽曲ですし、P-VINE盤にも収録された"A Million Grains Of Sand"の弾き語りver.などなど・・・とはいえラスティ・エヴァンスがグリニッジ・ヴィレッジ出身ということをはっきりと感じさせる内容とともに、ディラン的なボーカリストともいえるルー.リードがNYで結成した『VELVET UNDERGROUD』と対比させるようにFREAK SCENEがいかに重要な作品であるかを裏付ける内容となっております。※P-VINE盤の紙JKTは既に生産中止となりますので、迷うことなく本盤を手に取りましょう。

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<ボーナス音源>
I Dig Your Mind
Scufflin' Around
A Million Grains Of Sand
Here We Are
I Watched The World Go By
It'S Too Late Babe
Dr Seven
My Other World
The Life I Used To Live

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Fresh from his studio experiences with The Deep and the Third Bardo, Rusty Evans decided to create a psychedelic happening which would also function as a recording group. He gathered together a few New York musicians, including three members of the Deep (David Bromberg among them), dubbed them the Freak Scene, and began work on the Psychedelic Psoul album, which was released in 1967. The intention was to pursue the Indian-Eastern influence in rockand this raga rock idea is used to great effect on songs like Grok and Rose of Smiling Faces (sounds like it could have been the sole inspiration for Damons Song of a Gypsy album). As the only true psychedelic band on Columbia at the time, the Freak Scene got decent exposure. No doubt this number would have been much greater had the band been a touring ensemble, instead of a one-time psychedelic event. The album is gritty, tense, subversive, brittle, and yes, psychedelic. Perfect in its own way. Included as bonus tracks are nine demos from the summer of 1966, some of which would end up in quite a different musical context on The Deep Psychedelic Moods and Freak Scene albums. These songs, with their P. F. Sloan/Dylan (or even Sixto Rodriguez) vibe deepen the legacy of edgy, insightful songs from Rusty Evans/Marcus Uzilevsky. Comes with a16-page booklet which includes a biographical portrait of Marcus,printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy.


Track List: 1. A Million Grains of Sand (2:41); 2. "...when in the course of human events" (Draft Beer, Not Students) Interpolation: We Shall Overcome (3:36); 3. Rose of Smiling Faces (4:18); 4. Behind the Mind (2:18); 5. The Subway Ride thru Inner Space (2:44); 6. Butterfly Dream(1:40); 7. My Rainbow Life (2:52); 8. The Center of My Soul (2:26); 9. Watered Down Soul (2:36); 10. Red Rose Will Weep (2:18); 11. Mind Bender (2:28); 12. Grok! (1:38)


Bonus Tracks (1966 demos): 13. I Dig Your Mind (1:46); 14. Scufflin' Around (2:31); 15. A Million Grains of Sand (2:18); 16. Here We Are (2:12); 17. I Watched The World Go By (2:00); 18. It's Too Late Babe (2:06); 19. Dr. Seven (2:16); 20. My Other World (2:17); 21. The Life I Used To Live (2:27)