Bruce Palmer - The Cycle Is Complete (1970) {Collectors' Choice Music CCM-375-2 rel 2003}
Bruce Palmer - The Cycle Is Complete (1970) {Collectors' Choice Music CCM-375-2 rel 2003}
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© 1970, 2003 Verve Forecast / Collectors' Choice Music | CCM-375-2
Rock / Acid Folk / Psychedelic Rock / Folk
Bruce Palmer (acoustic/electric guitars/Fender bass) is best known for his association with the earliest incarnation of the Buffalo Springfield. It was he and Neil Young who trekked from their native Canada in the latter's hearse (named Mort) to Los Angeles in search of Stephen Stills with the hopes of forming a rocking teen combo. His tenure was cut short by deportation which stemmed from two separate marijuana-related convictions in 1967 and 1968, respectively. The Cycle Is Complete (1971) – Palmer's only solo effort – is an eclectic masterwork with stream of consciousness jams that combine folk, jazz, and rock onto a quartet of primarily instrumental sides.
Joining him are a seemingly disparate group of musicians who include Ed Roth (organ), Danny Ray aka "Big Black" (conga), and from the West Coast psych-fusion group Kaleidoscope: Chester Crill (violin), Paul Lagos (drums), Jeff Kaplan (piano), and Richard Aplan (nee Aplanalp) (flute/oboe). Also playing a pivotal part in the musical exchange is one of Palmer's pre-Buffalo Springfield acquaintances from the Toronto-based band the Mynah Birds. Rick Matthews would become better known several years later under his super freaky persona as the funky Rick James. Throughout this release he can be heard on percussion and most notably on the improvised scat-like vocals that materialize from within the instrumentation. Each of the tracks is ultimately as unique as the proverbial fingerprint. They are indeed inclusively well-developed musical statements. "Alpha-Omega-Apocalypse" is a frenetic and exploratory quarter-hour of jazzy intonations and features a bluesy vocal by James. Much in the same way that Skip Spence goes for it throughout his magnum opus Oar (1970), these musicians act and react on skill and intuition. The end result is something along the lines of latter-era Traffic and the psychedelic soul of the Rotary Connection. The brief "Interlude" sounds remarkably like "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" as Kaplan and Palmer solidify their respective association. "Oxo" swirls around a heavily Eastern-influenced progression that weaves in and out of some interesting sonic spaces and includes some non-lyrical vocalizations from James. The moody and brooding "Calm Before the Storm" is a languid and dark sojourn that is once again marked by some interesting ideas and, perhaps more importantly, equally engaging execution.
Bruce Palmer - The Cycle Is Complete (1970) {Collectors' Choice Music CCM-375-2 rel 2003}
Credits
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass [Fender] – Bruce Palmer
Congas – Big Black
Drums – Paul Lagos
Oboe, Flute – Richard Aplan
Organ – Ed Roth
Percussion, Vocals – Rick Matthews
Piano – Jeff Kaplan
Violin – Templeton Parcely
Producer – Bruce Palmer
Tracks
01. Alpha-Omega-Apocalypse
02. Interlude
03. Oxo
04. Calm Before the Storm
Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015
EAC extraction logfile from 9. November 2016, 0:24
Bruce Palmer / The Cycle Is Complete
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Bruce Palmer / The Cycle Is Complete
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==== Log checksum ED8A0193B2C7A62FACDE801D57D10A324A7CED8AC4C63C6A7D0F7994F558DFE6 ====
Bruce Palmer - The Cycle Is Complete (1970) {Collectors' Choice Music CCM-375-2 rel 2003}
Bruce Palmer - The Cycle Is Complete (1970) {Collectors' Choice Music CCM-375-2 rel 2003}
All thanks goes to the original releaser!
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