Kaleidoscope: A Beacon From Mars

Kaleidoscope SKU: 14168192
Kaleidoscope: A Beacon From Mars

Kaleidoscope: A Beacon From Mars

Kaleidoscope SKU: 14168192

Format: VINYL LP

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Description

Title: A Beacon From Mars
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Product Type: VINYL LP

Wielding a battery of exotic instruments that once adorned a thrift-shop front window (bazouki, oud, vina, saz, doumbeg), the Kaleidoscope was every bit as multi-hued and subject-to-change as the telescope full of bright bits of colored glass the band was named after. If there had been a prize for the most eclectic psychedelic outfit, L.A.'s Kaleidoscope would have had it stashed on a shelf-between the hookah pipes and the bowling trophies-in the band's rehearsal space. Formed by multi-instrumentalists David Lindley and Chris Darrow, with a membership that also included multi-instrumentalist Solomon Feldthouse and multi-instrumentalists Max Buda, Chester Crill and Fenrus Epp (all the same person!) along with drummer John Vidican, this wildly experimental outfit pioneered what would become the world-music genre by darting deftly between rock, folk, blues, Cajun, country, Middle Eastern, good-time ballads and Eastern European styles, with plenty of full-blown psychedelia on the side. It's an exotically diverse approach, explored to great effect on 1968's A Beacon from Mars, Kaleidoscope's second LP (the working title for the album was Bacon from Mars). Just float your head through the buoyant, sprawling, mystical title track; the driving, raga-esque "Taxim"; or the graceful opener, "I Found Out," which unfolds like the tender petals of a young rose. Beacon from Mars is an album no fan of '60s West Coast psych can afford to miss!

Tracks:
1.1 I Found Out - Kaleidoscope, Shackleford, Earl
1.2 Greenwood Sidee - Kaleidoscope, Traditional
1.3 Life Will Pass You By - Kaleidoscope, Darrow, Chris
1.4 Taxim - Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope [Us]
1.5 The Bald-Headed End of a Broom - Kaleidoscope, Traditional
1.6 Louisiana Man - Kaleidoscope, Kershaw, Doug
1.7 You Don't Love Me - Kaleidoscope, Cobbs, Willie
1.8 Beacon from Mars - Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope [Us]
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