PURPLE OVERDOSE exit #4 GREECE HEAVY PSYCH GARAGE FREAKBEAT ACID FUZZ ROCK NM LP
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Description
PURPLE OVERDOSE - "EXIT#4"
Label: Pegasus PEG 005
Format: LP
Country: Greece
Released: 1988
Zustand/Condition:
Record: mint
Cover: ex
Yellow coloured vinyl
Album notes:
Personnel: Costas Constantinou--guitar, lead vocals / Christophoros Triantaphilopoulos--drums, percussion / George Nikas--drums* / George Papageorgiades--bass guitar, backing vocals / Michalis Vasiliou--organ, piano, vocals.
One of Europe's finest psych bands.
Style: heavy psych-rock!!!!
Purple Overdose's debut album - Exit #4 - was released in 1988 on Pegasus Records. At this time a quartet, the band consisted of Costas Constantinou on guitars and lead vocals, Christophoros Triantaphilopoulos on drums & percussion (George Nikas is the drummer on 5 tracks), "Sugar" George Papageorgiades on bass and backing vocals, and Michalis Vasiliou on organ, piano and backing vocals. On this release we hear a rawer version of Purple Overdose though the seeds of exciting things to come are firmly planted. The songs reveal the bands passion for 60's era psychedelia combining elements of Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, and go-go flower power psych. The San Francisco sound really comes out on songs like "Are You There". "Yellow Mole" and "Roobie Go Round" feature classic 60's psych styled organ and keys. Listening to "Yellow Mole" conjures up visions of go-go- girls grooving high above the dance floor. "Orange Journey" is the most Doors flavored song of the set and we're treated to the band taking off into jam territory (dig those Ray Manzarek keyboards!). "Holes" combines a Jefferson Airplane sound with Costas Constantinou's unmistakable vocals. "When You Talk About Me" is one of the heavier and intense songs on the album though the verses are classic 60's psychedelia. And "Blue Torture" is a cool trippy Blues tune. An impressive debut.........
From rateyourmusic.com:
Exit #4 by Purple Overdose indeed proves that music is both timeless and boundless, where a band from the other side of the world, some forty years out, still manages to capture the abiding joy, love, and passion of those heady Summer of Love days and nights. Think Flower Power, Go-Go Girls, hip hugger jeans, The Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Love, head-shops, dazzling light shows, and lingering music that stretches beyond the known universe, challenging your notion of what garage-psych was and is.
There’s an effortlessness to these songs, and that’s what makes them so irresistible, cool, and very trippy ... an aspect that’s lost when it comes to other bands trying to ride the psychedelic wave. The reverb, the fuzz, and the echos have merged together, allowing the songs to sound complete and full without the need for punctuation for punctuation’s sake. Purple Overdose create a carnival atmosphere suitable for listening, or the dancehall floor, where girls in flowered dresses spin in the arms of boys with beads and long hair, eyes dilated wide, waiting on a new dawn.
Thankfully Purple Overdose are still out there, carrying the banner of freedom, with their eyes on a new sun braking over a fresh horizon.
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