AZITIS Help LP on Elo 1971 RARE XIAN PSYCH Heavyweight

$

760

ELCO Records, USA, 1970, "On earth azitis in heaven. Well, now at least you know how to pronounce the name of this 4-man Sacramento band. For a while I was thinking it rhymed with phlebitis. Anyhow, there's probably less than ten oldies in existence that'd get the official Ken Scott 5-star rating and Azitis is one of them. Also one of the few that is solidly psychedelic in sound from beginning to end. Every song is a winner here, strong melodies, gentle vocals, moody passages with swirly organ that sound like they were lifted out of the middle of 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'. In fact this whole album is saturated in psychy organ sounds. Add to that fuzz, phasing, reverb, wah-wah, flutes and you've got a virtual time machine to the flower power era. 'Creation' starts things off with a dissonant organ crescendo, chanting, and wah-wah guitar. 'The Prophet' and 'From This Place' both reach frenzied intense peaks, while 'Hope To Save' brings in piano and acoustic guitar for a melodic ballad. Thematically covers a number of topics such as creation, the fall, judgment day, Revelation. Exceptional cover art of a gold cross emerging from the planet earth. Mega rare, too - only 500 made. I can't emphasize enough how cool this album is. It's a true monster if there ever was one." Review by Ken Scott
The vinyl has good gloss, some marks and light scuffing, plays well with occasional very light intermittent noise between songs or in quiet passages:VG+ The cover has light wear with light ringwear on the front, a few spots of barely visible discoloration along the right side on the back, a two inch center seam split on the top edge, a corner bruise lower left: VG++ It is still quite a clean, impressive jacket with the eery, mysterious, trippy Xian graphics. And as far as the music, this group puts out great song writing with incredible arrangements, instrumentation and psychedelic flourishes. Reasonable reserve.

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