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File under: KrautCosmic

Brainticket

Cottonwoodhill

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*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* Brainticket is a psychedelic/acid rock group formed in Switzerland by Belgian-born keyboardist Joel Vandroogenbrock. Their debut album (1971) was banned in several countries, including the USA, probably due to the explicit narcotic language on the cover. The chaotic world that unfolds around the heavy Hammond is now increasingly regarded as one of the first European psychedelic albums. First paper-jacketed, SHM-CD, latest remastered definitive edition, released in memory of Joel, who died in 19.

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File under: KrautCosmic
Cat. number: BELLE 203360
Year: 2020
Notes:
Issued in gatefold mini LP sleeve with notes in mainly Japanese. SHM CD format.
Cottonwoodhill is one of the trippiest records ever made, capturing the intensity of the peak LSD experienceRead more

Cottonwoodhill is one of the trippiest records ever made, capturing the intensity of the peak LSD experience far more successfully than any Timothy Leary recording, and even today, when many such documents from that era can sound silly and dated, Brainticket's fascinating debut still holds hallucinogenic potency. The record has only two proper songs, "Black Sand" and "Places of Light," with a side and a half of the album taken up by the three-part "Brainticket." "Black Sand" opens the disc with a driving funk beat and powerful organ and guitar interplay, adding in vocals distorted beyond coherency. "Places of Light" begins in a slightly lighter vein as a flute leads the proceedings, a looser jazzier piece that throws in some of Dawn Muir's odd spoken word vocals. Before one realizes what has happened, the piece has faded out and there is suddenly a crashing sound, car horns, and engines starting up. "Brainticket" is a bizarre roller coaster ride through weird sound effects and electronics, an endless organ riff, and Muir's acid-rush ramblings from hushed whisper to urgent screams, as any coherency she had earlier becomes lost to mind-expanding visions. Rather than the laid-back mellow groove of some psychedelic music from this era, Cottonwoodhill has a hyper energy in the frenetic organ riff and Muir's voice, like an acid trip out of control, while at times the various sound effects take over completely.

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