 | oscargamblesfro (76)
05/27/2007 | Often called the first 'world music' band, they tended to do long psychedelic jams around Middle Eastern music, country, jugband/ 20's stuff and other,'exotic' forms of music. Really talented, impressive, and diverse outfit, kind of like an American version of their contemporary The Incredible String Band in the sense of playing proto- world music, but played harder and faster than the Scottish band did, and have very little in common with them. Some tracks went on too long, but they utilized a tremendous array of instruments- sitars, bouzoukis, ouds, balalaikas, glockenspiels, etc. This comes from their first record, which had some short tunes. An anti-war song- ghostly with some beautiful music and poignant lyrics. Not everything worked, but when it did, this band were great. Never more than a cult band really- too strange and complex for the mainstream.
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