10+10 Pisciatori controvento. 4) The New Creation
The New Creation - Troubled LP - Where Are You Going? There would be a whole separate study to do on groups formed by family members...
Here we have the Towers of Vancouver; mom Lorna (we are in the '70s) does not appreciate those young folks who talk about sex and drugs and all that freedom of morals that is now spreading everywhere.
But she loves music (and Jesus).
So she decides to write a handful of songs that talk about Faith and drugs and show young people the path to follow.
And to play them, she calls her son Chris. Chris is only nineteen, but he sings and plays the guitar with a fair degree of skill. To complete the group, they bring in their neighbor, Miss Janet Tiessen, and put her on drums. Need I say that dear Janet had never seen a drum set before that?
Mom Lorna joins in the harmonies. The effect makes the Shaggs sound like a prog band!
After a few months of rehearsals, the New Creation are ready to record their first album, "Troubled".
They print 100 copies, distribute them to friends and family, some air them on the radio, play a couple of concerts, and then disappear.
But the story doesn't end there (thankfully). Because about thirty years later, a certain Will Louviere, a terminal vinyl collector and (if I’m not mistaken) owner of Companion Rec., finds this record at a used goods stall.
He goes home and... what a surprise!
Because, I assure you, this record is insane. He describes it as "Psychedelic Garage Godcore," I find it to be one of the most bizarre and mind-blowing things I've ever heard: insane lyrics and a stunning psychedelia, plus an astonishing level of amateurism.
In short, the album gets repressed on vinyl and CD and becomes a myth among lovers of various oddities, and the New Creation reunite and record their second album 34 years after the first. And guess what that album is like?
