sotomayor
2 jan 18
DeRank ™: 3,00
Review #buzz: check out these flying Dutchmen. Obviously always suggested by @[ALFAMA].
Groep 1850 – Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth (Philips, 1968)
I might sound repetitive, but this Dutch group from the city of Den Haag played in a way that was ahead of its time by practically twenty years. The group (Peter Sjardin, Daniel Van Bergen, Ruud Van Buren, Beer Klaaasse) is called Groep 1850 (or Group 1850), and 'Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth', released in 1968 (Philips), is their first LP. The album is objectively very beautiful and something surprising in the field of sixties psychedelia. Let's just say the band was definitely on point: 'Reborn' is a typical psychedelic ballad infused with Eastern sounds; 'Refound' echoes the lysergic inspirations of the Beatles; 'Ever Ever Green' has the marks of old classics combined with a psychedelic pop flavor still typical of the four lads from Liverpool; 'I Know (La Pensèe)' as well as 'A Point In This Life' have passages reminiscent of Stones sounds like 'Paint It Black' but combined with a certain hypnotism and a use of choruses that is typical of these crazy flying Dutchmen. Like in the dramatic psychedelic-pop of 'Zero' or in 'Mother No-Head', a psychedelic garage litany where the choruses overlap and at one point in a self-ironic symphonic experimentation, we hear the notes of 'San Martino Campanaro.' 'I Put My Hand On Your Shoulder' is definitely the most experimental track on the album. It opens with clear references to a typical psychedelia of the time, reminiscent of the Floyd of Syd Barrett; the introduction is ecstatic, a downpour of sounds and psychedelic allegories that converge into 'Sgt Pepper'-like visions, leading to a closure with the classic Motorik 4/4 of kraut-rock and an acidity reminiscent of Amon Duul II. If 'Misty Night' is a typical blues-rock episode of those years, tracks like 'Frozen Mind' and 'Dream Of The Future' are absolutely ahead of their time in their use of distortions and a certain underlying nihilism. But if that weren't enough, here comes the fury of 'Fire', which may remind one of Blue Cheer but at a certain point seems already hardcore, and then you end up wondering if these Dutchmen had some kind of spacecraft to travel through time.
GROUP 1850 - I put my hand on your shoulder
Groep 1850 – Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth (Philips, 1968)
I might sound repetitive, but this Dutch group from the city of Den Haag played in a way that was ahead of its time by practically twenty years. The group (Peter Sjardin, Daniel Van Bergen, Ruud Van Buren, Beer Klaaasse) is called Groep 1850 (or Group 1850), and 'Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth', released in 1968 (Philips), is their first LP. The album is objectively very beautiful and something surprising in the field of sixties psychedelia. Let's just say the band was definitely on point: 'Reborn' is a typical psychedelic ballad infused with Eastern sounds; 'Refound' echoes the lysergic inspirations of the Beatles; 'Ever Ever Green' has the marks of old classics combined with a psychedelic pop flavor still typical of the four lads from Liverpool; 'I Know (La Pensèe)' as well as 'A Point In This Life' have passages reminiscent of Stones sounds like 'Paint It Black' but combined with a certain hypnotism and a use of choruses that is typical of these crazy flying Dutchmen. Like in the dramatic psychedelic-pop of 'Zero' or in 'Mother No-Head', a psychedelic garage litany where the choruses overlap and at one point in a self-ironic symphonic experimentation, we hear the notes of 'San Martino Campanaro.' 'I Put My Hand On Your Shoulder' is definitely the most experimental track on the album. It opens with clear references to a typical psychedelia of the time, reminiscent of the Floyd of Syd Barrett; the introduction is ecstatic, a downpour of sounds and psychedelic allegories that converge into 'Sgt Pepper'-like visions, leading to a closure with the classic Motorik 4/4 of kraut-rock and an acidity reminiscent of Amon Duul II. If 'Misty Night' is a typical blues-rock episode of those years, tracks like 'Frozen Mind' and 'Dream Of The Future' are absolutely ahead of their time in their use of distortions and a certain underlying nihilism. But if that weren't enough, here comes the fury of 'Fire', which may remind one of Blue Cheer but at a certain point seems already hardcore, and then you end up wondering if these Dutchmen had some kind of spacecraft to travel through time.
GROUP 1850 - I put my hand on your shoulder
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