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A psychedelic gem from San Francisco’s Bay Area, released in 1967. For this magnificent debut album, no definition comes to mind better than the one stated by Country Joe McDonald himself: "If you want to understand psychedelic music and haven’t listened to Electric Music for the Mind and Body, then you probably don’t know what you’re talking about." McDonald:
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Disraeli Gears is the second studio album by Cream, released by Reaction Records in November 1967. The album contains, among other tracks, the songs "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of Your Love," which have a sound that became the emblem of the fusion of Blues and Psychedelia.
Ginger Baker with his drumming, Jack Bruce with his bass lines, and Eric Clapton with his 6 and 12-string guitars have forever and rightfully entered the history of music.
Curtis Mayfield: Curtis
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
A unique voice and a distinctive writing ability defining a musical genre and an era. An essential album in the history of funk.
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes were the main architects of the music that defined Blaxploitation. A Funk punch to the gut of America in the '70s. You can't miss it.
Eric Clapton is to electric blues what John Mayall is to a launch platform in orbit. If Clapton became God, it was largely thanks to Mayall. An essential album.
John Mayalls: A Hard Road
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Outside Eric Clapton, inside Peter Green and John McVie. But the music doesn’t change; instead, it further defines the style of electric blues that will ignite millions of listeners and inspire a host of great musicians. Magnificent album.
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: East West
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
The second album by the American group The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was released by Elektra Records in August 1966. East West is a fundamental record for the blues-rock genre. Until then, the only white musicians playing the Blues were the English Yardbirds with Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones, just to name the most famous. In other words, they were the link between rock, blues, and jazz, as well as captivating the white audience, helping to definitively "legitimize" the founders of the Blues such as Muddy Waters and B.B. King. The lineup also featured other "sacred monsters" like guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. Bloomfield, in particular, was crucial for Bob Dylan's electric evolution, in the famous performance at the Newport festival in 1965, which was key to the birth of folk-rock.
Santana: Abraxas
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
When this album was released, I was just a child, but there must be something in the music that leaves an indelible imprint on each of us. If I have developed such open musical tastes for multiethnic sounds, I owe it primarily to this record. Essential.
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Can a Brazilian housewife record an album, just because she knows a little English, that becomes a milestone in the history of music? The answer is yes. Unmissable.
Terry Callier: What Color Is Love
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
An intense and magnificent album, made unique by the music and the warm voice of Callier. Essential in every club.
WAR: The World is a Ghetto
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
The world is a ghetto. Funk music has the job of breaking down the barriers that confine us to this ghetto. Long live funk.