1969 Orig MICHELE SATURN RINGS Fem Hippie Pop Psych
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SCARCE 1969 ORIG ~~ DREAMY FEMALE HIPPIE MELODIES
MICHELE
SATURN RINGS
...USA - ABC RECORDS - 684
Original sought after 1969 first pressing psych artifact ... with clean original ABC Records printed inner sleeve
Saturn Rings, the one and only album by Michele (nee O’Malley), was released in 1969, the product of cult-figure producer/arranger/songwriter Curt Boettcher. O’Malley was a vocalist for the Ballroom, the pre-Millenium/Sagittarius project on Boettcher’s resume, and it seemed that Saturn Rings would be the sure-shot to get both the recognition they sought. The list of session players and studio magicians with their hands in this thing is fairly compelling, as well: witness Lowell George, pre-Little Feat; Elliot Ingber, Zappa/Beefheart collaborator ("Winged Eeel Fingerling") and head of Fraternity Of Man; Bobby Notkoff, pre-Rockets and Neil Young sideman; Gordon Alexander (The Association); and Bobby Jameson (a.k.a. Chris Lucey, of Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest infamy). A dream session for psych-pop heads as could be assembled, but in its proper moment, nobody knew.
A shame, then, as this is as mature and adventurous as hippie “lost” albums get. Michele’s vocal arrangements come straight from Boettcher, as do five of the album’s songs, either as writer or co-writer (“Spinning, Spinning, Spinning” was originally recorded as the A-side of the Ballroom’s lone single, as were two other tracks in here: “Musty Dusty” and “Would You Like to Go”). Given the recycling of earlier material, the new arrangements and recordings here give even the sappiest, folkiest material a much-needed facelift, with George’s trilling flute and Winged Eel Fingerling Ingber’s roaming bluegrass-inflected guitar skirting all around the harpsichord and traps charts on “Spinning.” These tracks frame Michele’s versatile voice and respectable range, able to hollow out for soulful, Laura Nyro-esque readings, go plaintive a la Karen Carpenter, or sharpen into Anglophilic meringue peaks a la early Parliament protégé Ruth Copeland, or Buffy Sainte-Marie.
How’s the music? Very respectable, with strong showings throughout over Eastern-flecked tracks (check the galvanizing tablas on “Fallen Angel”), haunting balladry (“White Linen,” comparable to the Poppy Family) and baroque R&B (the gorgeous “Song to the Magic Frog”). Nowhere does this group’s strengths make themselves more prevalent than on “Lament of the Astro Cowboy,” a sprawling, eight-minute opus lost in a tonk of bass groove, ripping violin screech and explosive guitar distortion. As this track rolls out, it becomes painfully obvious that Saturn Rings is a very clued-in flipside to Sainte-Marie circa Illuminations, not as possessed and blessed with more robust songcraft and an offhanded mastery of the studio environment, lysergically kissed and eternally blissed out.
- Would You Like To Go
- Blind As You Are
- Song To A Magic Frog
- Fallen Angel
- Spinning, Spinning, Spinning
- Know Yourself
- Musty Dusty
- Lament Of The Astro Cowboy
- White Linen
- Misty Mirage
- Believe You
CONDITION: The cover: Very clean, stiff, sharp "EX" (excellent) ...bright colors, no seam splirs, no writing...tiny delete drill at top left shouldn't bother anyone except the small percentage of audiophile pickies ... this one, collection 'looks' ...
The vinyl: all glossy on both sides...has a couple short hairthin stylus marks, looks VG++ play graded nicely with only a couple areas of light ticks ...certainly enjoyable in realm of the music advertised above...
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