Tully ORIG OZ OST LP Sea of joy VG+ ’72 Harvest Prog folk Psyche Surf Extraditio

Tully

Sea of joy

Original 1st Press OZ LP released in 1972 on Harvest Music. Cat:SHVL605.  

The solemn, dreamy 1971 surf soundtrack, Sea Of Joy, documents a period of massive change for the band. For the previous two years, they had been arguably Australia's most revered psychedelic rock group, renowned for their wild, largely improvised concerts. Their rise was meteoric, from Sydney house band for tribal love-rock musical Hair in 1969, to starring in six-part ABC TV series Fusions and performing Peter Sculthorpe's rock opera Love 200 at the Sydney Town Hall. By 1970, when they released their self-titled debut album, flautist, clarinetist, saxophonist and de facto band leader Richard Lockwood had approached surfing director Paul Witzig after his now iconic 1969 film Evolution (for which Tully had contributed some music alongside Sydney colleagues Tamam Shud), offering to record an entire soundtrack to his next film. Witzig had agreed when Tully were a towering rock band, driven by Michael Carlos' massive Hammond organ and Lockwood's exploratory reeds, but by the time Sea Of Joy came to be recorded, they were a drummer-less, contemplative folk-psych outfit, dedicated to spiritual guru Meher Baba. 

Although unexpected, the results were luminous. Sea Of Joy radiates a serene purity, miles removed from what people generally think of as surf music, but as Witzig wrote on the back cover, “Tully are not surfers, but there proved to be many things common to both our worlds: a feeling for peace, beauty, simplicity and freedom.” New member Colin Campbell contributes I Feel the Sun, also recorded by Extradition for their lone, celebrated album Hush in 1971. The miraculous voice of Shayna Stewart is also heard for the first time on the Lockwood- penned title track. As an added bonus, a hissy radio interview tape from 1971 reveals the band’s thoughts on Hair, Sea Of Joy and more, as well as illustrating the true extent of their early 70s reputation. Humble, disarming and sublime, Sea Of Joy is a record like very few others in the Australian rock canon. 

Tracks :Sea Of Joy (Part 1) / Pseudo-Tragic-Dramatic/ Follow Me/ Cat-Clarinet Mit Orgel/ Trinidad / I Feel The Sun/ Thank You/ Syndrone/ Softly, Softly/ Brother Sun/ Down To The Sea/ Sea Of Joy (Part 2).

There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Record has some light scuffs and a few very light scratches which cause some light crackles in parts and is in VG+ condition. Gloss cover has light ring wear, a light red mark and some other light marks on back, a small sticker stain on back and a few tiny surface tears around edges and is in Excellent condition.

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