Ignored upon its release in 1974 and celebrated upon its reissue in 2001, Shuggie Otis' fourth and last album Inspiration Information exists out of time, a record that was of its time, but didn't belong of it; a record that was idiosyncratic but not necessarily visionary. It was psychedelic soul that was released far too late to be part of any zeitgeist and it was buried at the time. Yet no matter what David Byrne claims on the sticker - he says Shuggie's "trippy R&B jams are equal to Marvin's a…
Two rather unique contemporary masses for mixed chorus (one plus instruments) composed in the 1950's and released on Epic's "Twentieth Century Composers Series" in 1957.