House - Water Under the Bridge - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Anchored by Gossan's powerful voice and Dangel and Johansen's twin lead guitars, 'Floating Bridge' remains one of the great obscure psychedelic rock albums of the late 1960s. Only adding to the mystery, 'Floating Bridge', was the band's only commercial , and is now a staple of the psych rock collectors market. Released in 1969, it arrived at the height of the counterculture revolution, leaving an indelible mark on the musical landscape of it's time. This true slice of quality acid blues rock features a blend of exciting original material with rearranged cover versions, including a rousing rendition of the Beatles Hey Jude' and a wonderful instrumental medley of the Byrds Eight Miles High' and the Rolling Stones Paint It, Black'.

The story of Floating Bridge begins in the mid 1960's in Seattle. Guitarist Rich Dangel had been a member of the Wailers, the lesser known the Rooks and a late incarnation of the Time Machine. When the Time Machine split up in 1967, Dangel and bass player Joe Johnson decided to form their own band. Recruiting guitarist Joe Johansen and drummer Michael Marinelli, they became the Unknown Factor - a for-hire backing band that worked with local acts such as Patti Allen and Ron Holden. In 1968 they added former Punch singer Pat Gossan to the lineup. They became the house band at Seattle's Eagle Auditorium and gained exposure via the 1968 Sky River Rock Festival. The resulting publicity attracted the interest of L.A. based Vault Records who debuted the band with a 1968 single InchBrought Up WrongInch b/w InchWatch Your Step.Inch the single attracted enough attention for Vault to finance a follow-up album. Released in 1969 with the band name changed to Floating Bridge, the album teamed the band with producer Jackie Mills. With Dangel, Johnson and Gossan responsible for most of the original material, tracks like InchBrought Up Wrong,Inch the earlier single InchWatch Your Step,Inch and InchThree Minute & Ten Second BluesInch feature a distinctively heavy, Hendrix-inspired sound. Anchored by Gossan's powerful voice and Dangel and Johansen's twin leads, Floating Bridge remains one of the great if obscure rare psychedelic rock albums of the late 1960's. Finally available in the digital domain, all selections have been newly remastered.

2011's Black Up was the first full-length sonic move from Shabazz Palaces, and it remains a milestone of forward-looking hip-hop. This new LP edition is on luxurious and limited gold vinyl. Black up Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Hip hop. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn't come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Hear. Hard and clear. Fifty thousand years in the making. Honorable. -palaceer pink gators. Produced by Knife Knights. Plcrs at Gunbeat Serenade Studio in Outplace Palacelands. It was recorded and mixed in Lixx-alog by Blood.