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London, Alexandra Palace, summer 1967...
The Floyd concert, due to Syd's antics, ends earlier than expected... Nick Mason's drums and Rick Wright's organ, left unattended, are too much of a temptation...
So, three young men climb onto the stage and take over the instruments. The guitar is missing, but no problem: one of the three brought his own from home.
The young men improvise a jam session for about twenty minutes... and they "rock"...
A few months later they are at Abbey Road...
Announced stars?
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Actually, the only bright thing are the premises...
Though frequenting Abbey Road repeatedly, the young men will only release a single 45 rpm record.
And it will take almost thirty years to be able to listen to the rest of the material with the release of "Petals from a sunflower."
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Better late than never, because "Petals from a sunflower" is a little gem.
Delicately crafted, exquisite, inlaid, refractive.
With a sound (and therefore a world) "politely quirky" where, between naivety and elegance, pop drinks from the source of a sweetly psychedelic Arcadia.
And at least four tracks for a definitive flower sunshine anthology...
"So much love to give you," an unreal folk-pop song mixed with macabre/sugary choirs...
"Monday morning," a lively and bright pop anthem split in two by an unexpected and expansive Floydian organ.
"Sitting on a blunestone," the album's great masterpiece, two minutes and thirty-nine seconds of absolute bliss, between raga, folk purity, and something I can't describe...
"Saturn 1968," which is California in the grip of a strange Victorian dream.
Need more? If so, there are also nursery rhymes, puffing organs, attempts (not always successful) to recreate the Love of "Forever Changes," and, of course, sweet psychopop candies...
And anyway, to get an idea of the album, just look at the cover...
Aloha...
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