Silver Apples - Silver Apples vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
16-JKPO34.1
Beautiful, replica edition, all the way down to the foil cover, of this incredible, crazy, futuristic psych album from 1968. A personal favorite and highly recommended.
For my money, there are three *great* US, avant-garde psych bands of the late 60's (not great psych bands, of which there are many, but great avant-garde psych): The United States of America, Fifty Foot Hose, and Silver Apples.
Silver Apples were an amazingly forward looking band, where one guy played drums (in a 1968 Mitch Mitchell/Robert Wyatt kinda vein) and sang, and the other guy, Simeon, played a quite amazing home-built contraptions made out of 9 audio ocillators, which he played with his hands, elbows and knees and used his feet for the bass lines and also sang.
They recorded two very unique and quite cool albums in 1968 and 1969 and then disappeared. This is their 1st album. I consider at least half of each of their original albums to be totally brilliant and the rest, while not as brilliant, is still great.
"The amazing thing is they make absolutely mind shattering music with all this junky equipment."-East Village Other
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