Medicine Ball - Fresh Ape - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Japanese reissue. Includes bonus material. Universal. 2021.

Over 10 years after they called it quits as a working band, 2013 finds the original members of Medicine reunited and proudly offering a new album. To the Happy Few is the sound of a highly inspired group reclaiming it's creative legacy, thoroughly immersed in the practice of mixing harsh noise with obsessive melodic detail and heavily groovy rocking. It simultaneously references the origins of the band and explodes into brand new territory. An exuberant, belligerently pounding carnival.

First time on CD! Medicine Ball Caravan is a diverse Soundtrack to the 1971 Francois Reinchenbach film which had Martin Scorsese as associate producer. This is a document of an 8,000 mile Trans USA trip by 154 people, a wagon train of buses, trucks and musical groups. They ventured to San Francisco, CA, Gallup, NM, Boulder, CO, Sioux City, IA, Yellow Springs, OH, Moline, IL, Warrenton, VA, and Washington, DC. For your listening pleasure you will hear rare live performances by the likes of Delaney & Bonnie, Alice Cooper, The Youngbloods, B.B. King, Doug Kershaw, Sal Valentino, and Stoneground.