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Artist:	SPECTRUM
Title:	Part One
Label:	AZTEC MUSIC (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	AVS 026CD

"To the Australian public at large, Spectrum will always be remembered for the 1971 #1 hit 'I'll Be Gone,' an enduring rock classic if ever there was one. As songwriter and Spectrum lynchpin Mike Rudd has put it: '''ll Be Gone' has had a marvelous life,' with indications that its potency will continue to rise. It still gets played on Australian 'Classic Hits' radio to this day. Spectrum still play the song at practically every gig with the enthusiastic, sing-a-long response of the audience inevitable; a perfect example of this was the band's appearance at the 2002 arena rock spectacular, 'Long Way To The Top.' The sound of an entire concert audience singing the song's rousing refrain at full voice, with little encouragement, was indeed magnificent. While the song's appeal is unquestionable, to the dedicated Australian rock music aficionado, Spectrum is more than just one gloriously brilliant song. Many fans will tell you that Spectrum music is some of the greatest progressive psych rock recorded in the day, and nominate the band as purveyors of a uniquely Australian sound and identity. Spectrum's debut, Part One was originally released on EMI's progressive label, Harvest and is rightfully regarded as not only a landmark progressive rock release, but the beginning of one of Australia's more remarkable bands. Aztec Music's deluxe reissue of Part One has 7 bonus tracks -- the non LP B-side 'Launching Place Part One' and the 3 versions of their classic hit, 'I'll Be Gone': the original Aussie mono single and B-side ('Launching Place Part Two'), the German stereo single and the 'Psycho-Psychedelic' version of 'Launching Place Part Two' and the ultra rare 1969 acetate version with the previously-unavailable B-side, 'You Never Can Win.' Digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, liner notes by Ian MacFarlane and a 24-page booklet with many rare photos."

Artist:	SPECTRUM
Title:	Milesago
Label:	AZTEC MUSIC (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	AVS 033CD

"Spectrum's second album Milesago is one of the key Australian releases of the '70s and a progressive rock milestone. The double album was originally released on EMI's Harvest Records imprint (home to artists such as Pink Floyd, Kevin Ayers, The Move and Deep Purple) -- and you couldn't find a more appropriate label for such spaced-out progressive psych! With its striking Ian McCausland cover art restored, Milesago is presented here as a deluxe 8-panel digipak 2CD set. The album was remastered in 2008 by Gil Matthews and is augmented with 7 bonus tracks: 2 from the 1972 Sunbury festival a 20+ minute 'Some Good Advice; (!) and a live version of their classic single 'I'll Be Gone,' 2 single edits, a non-LP B-side, an excerpt from the Australian film Dalmas, rounded off with an advertisement for Camel cigarettes! The liner notes from noted Australian rock writer Ian McFarlane include a new interview with Mike Rudd and are packaged in a 24 page booklet filled with many rare photos."

Artist:	SPECTRUM
Title:	Geração Bendita
Label:	SHADOKS MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	SHAD 027CD

"If you like Modulo 1000 you'll love this one. Maybe the best Psych album ever released in Brazil with heavy guitar sounds, beautiful vocals and well-crafted songs. A hippy soundtrack starring the band itself. The movie was banned in Brazil. Geração Bendita (Blessed Generation). It was 1971, two years after Woodstock, and the Brazilian youth were still trying to live the hippie dream of the 'Age of Aquarius', even though a little late. In the wave of peace and love, a group of young musicians and moviemakers from Nova Friburgo, in Rio de Janeiro, dove into the production of what became known as 'the first Brazilian hippie movie'. Entitled Geração Bendita, the movie, directed by Carlos Bini and shot in Rio, has become something of a cult classic, remembered for both its visual imagery of the period and the rare and wonderful Original Soundtrack album that it spawned. Recorded in the studios of Todamérica in Rio de Janeiro, the album, also called Geração Bendita is credited to Spectrum, formed by the ex-members of the 2000 Volts band and actors/musicians appearing in the movie. The album assembles twelve songs with lyrics in Portuguese and some in English, most of them speaking about peace, love, freedom, nature and other themes and meaningful values of that time. Accentuated with plenty of fuzz guitars and vocals in a 'Beatles-style', the record was hailed as a world-class production and the talents of the group above the national standard of that time."

Artist:	SPECTRUM
Title:	The Light Is Dark Enough
Label:	SUBWAY (SPAIN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	TRUMP 001LP

"Reissue of the sole album by this excellent British pop-psych outfit, originally released in 1970. A nice mix of progressive pop and Swingin London pop-psych with killer tracks such as 'Nodnol,' 'Gory' and the groovy Hammond instrumental 'Walrus and the Horse.' Great production, vocals, organ. Featuring four non-LP bonus tracks taken from their previous 45s, including the pop-sike smasher 'Samantha's Mine,' the organ mod dancer 'London Bridge is Coming Down,' the toytown sounding 'Music Shootes the Savage Breast' and 'Comes the Dawn.' Remastered sound."

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