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Artist:	BOND Y LA PESADA, BILLY
Title:	Del Rock and Roll
Label:	CLOUD FOREST (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CFR 401CD

"Reissue CD contains the entirety of the first two LPs from Billy Bond y La Pesada, featuring the musicians responsible for the weird and wonderful records by Kubero Diaz, and La Cofradia de la Flor Solar. In 1970, Bond hit upon the idea to found 'La Pesada del Rock and Roll', a loosely-affiliated group featuring all of the best rock musicians in Argentina at the time. Billy Bond y La Pesada released their first album on the Music Hall label late in 1970 -- hard hitting freaked-out rock 'n 'roll with psychotic touches, spiced up by funky rhythms. This debut includes some incredible tracks: 'Salgan al sol' (written by Martínez, which features a brilliant Pappo wah-wah guitar solo); 'Divertido, Reventado', (credited to Pappo and Pedro Pujó, sounding more or less like a spin-off on Hendrix's 'You Got Me Floatin''); and 'El parque' (written by Spinetta as a preview of his own band Pescado Rabioso, featuring himself on bass and Pappo on guitar). The second album is from 1972; another excellent record featuring remarkable tracks like 'La pálidad ciudad', a great guitar rocker by Kubero Diaz, 'La máquina' ("The Damned Killer Machine") sung by Medina, with Pappo on guitar, 'Blues para mis amigos', with lyrics describing the members of the band, and 'Para que nos sirven'. All and all, this is a harder-edged LP than the first one -- as the text on the cover says: rocks+blues+rocks+rocks= Billy Bond y La Pesada!"

Artist:	ORION'S BEETHOVEN
Title:	Superangel
Label:	CLOUD FOREST (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CFR 402CD

The debut album from Argentinian prog-rock band Orion's Beethoven, originally released in 1973. Sax solos, hard rock, and a whirling 12-minute piece. Includes a live bonus track. "It is an unfortunate reality with many groups from Argentina that, although they may have spent several years developing their own sound, they rarely have a chance to demonstrate the results in the recording studio. The end result: the fame of some of these bands has only very slowly spread abroad to the general world of record collectors and fans of underground music. This is certainly the case with Orion's Beethoven, loosely described as a 'symphonic psychedelic group,' primarily, it seems, because of the way that they worked classical music themes (fragments from 'Schubert's Symphony No. 8' in B minor, for example) into a psychedelic wah-wah guitar shaped world of their own making. They only recorded two albums, both for Polydor, under this name and these with a massive gap of four years, and one million light years of style, between them." --from the liner notes.

Artist:	SHANKAR, ANANDA
Title:	A Musical Discovery of India
Label:	CLOUD FOREST (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CFR 403CD

"OK, so everyone knows that the oft-reissued Ananda Shankar & his Music has been considered legendary since the inclusion of 'Streets of Calcutta' and 'Dancing Drums' on a Blue Note break-beat compilation. But what most people don't know is that there is plenty more material of the same caliber. Later, rarer albums like the two included on this single CD yield equally impressive music with plenty of tracks waiting to be discovered by adventurous DJs! The seven tracks on A Musical Discovery of India were included on a 45 RPM 12" made for India Tourism Development Corp., released by EMI Gramophone India in 1978. 'Kaziranga Beat' is a terrific long jam highlighting the tabla, and other tracks like 'Namaskar,' 'The Hill Train,' 'Akbar's Jewels,' and 'Brindavan Revel' all have their champions. Then came Sa-Re-Ga Machan, a funky, strange, and exotic madhouse ('Jungle King' even reprises 'Streets of Calcutta') from 1981, which may be the true masterpiece among Ananda Shankar's albums. His rarest record, it is filled to the brim with hard driving funk and trippy exotica. The material ranges from dreamy swirling instrumentals with electronics and sitar, to deep exotica with organs, flutes, tablas & string sections that will devastate you with their beauty. To most people, 'India's greatest musician' means Ravi Shankar; but it was Ravi's nephew Ananda Shankar who became the voice of modern India in all its contrasting elements. In ways never previously imagined -- much less executed by other master musicians -- he alone merged Indian and Western, classical and rock traditions; he alone merged the lyrical and the funky, the exotic and the commercial, the traditional and the progressive."

Artist:	ROY, DILIP
Title:	Namaskaar: Melodies From India
Label:	CLOUD FOREST (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CFR 404CD

"Rare 1983 album by Dilip Roy, arranger and orchestra leader for virtually all of Ananda Shankar's recordings and very much in keeping with the beat-friendly, sitar-rich sound of those self-same albums. It has excellent themes -- silken, moody, and exotic -- with sitar (reputedly played by Ananda) coupled with electric guitars, synthesizers, flute, vibes, organ, some strange and wonderful percussion that should make DJ's smile, and strings (yes, as in string section). Amazing, ambitious, complex, and trippy, in a groovy sort of way. The music blends traditional Indian instrumentation with a bit of Western-styled ambiance, all flowing in a flowing sort of way like some lost groovy soundtrack. Why has no one heard of this record? that's easy -- because it was pressed up and sold only on Air India flights as an aural souvenir of their homeland!" Instrumentation includes: Flute, santoor, violin, sitar, sarod, mandolin, guitar, organ, synthesizer, vibrophone, veena, tabla & dholak, mridangam, drums, thumba and percussion.

Artist:	BOND Y LA PESADA, BILLY
Title:	Volumen 3 + Volumen 4
Label:	CLOUD FOREST (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CFR 405CD

"CD reissue of the third and fourth record from Billy Bond Y La Pesada. Volume 3 from 1972 is made up of two lengthy suites, 'Lado 1 -- Acustico' and 'Lado 2 -- Eectrica Camplementaria.' Released after their October 20, 1972 show at the Luna Park stadium in Buenos Aires where rioting between kids and police ensued at the prompting of Billy Bond and after which the band was promptly blacklisted by many government officials and clubs. The blood red LP jacket made direct reference to that night: Tontos (operita)... Habia una vez ) ... Anyone expecting more freaked out rock was in for the shock of a lifetime. Tontos was instead a collection of bizarre tape edits and sub-musique concrete, heavily laden with reverb, wailing, and fuzzed-out guitars. Volume 4 was Billy's final recording from '73 and includes heavy-hitters such as 'No Nos Paran Mas,' 'Hacia Algun Lugar,' 'Gracias Al Cielo,' 'Estamos Hartos,' 'Ano 1939,' 'Algo Esta Por Suceder,' and more all interestingly segued together with various animal noises and other sound effects."

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