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AC 023CD
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1996 release. "Official reissue plus five bonus tracks... Agape should be remembered as the first Christian hard rockers. A band well ahead of their time. This release captures the intensity of Agape's live performances as well as providing some unreleased studio tracks. The live cuts are taken from an 8-track release which was produced as a promotional item passed around to local radio stations. Only a handful of copies of this ultra-rare 8-track were ever circulated. One copy recently changed hands for $200. Since resurrecting this find we cleaned it up and digitized it as best as the technology allowed." "This 8-track only live recording from a California college gig in 1973 captures the band in just the right jammy guitar-psych mood you hoped for. Extended excursions on tracks from their studio LPs, plus a title track unique to this release; all of it certain to please any fan of westcoast Jesus psych-rock with a dose of Hendrix and keyboard prog/jazzrock. Raw recording with in-yer-face sound and an enthusiastic crowd." -- The Acid Archives
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HVAC 033CD
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2006 reissue. "Official reissue of this Christian underground basement psychedelic rock album, a massively-rare 1974 release on the Missouri-based American Artists label (AAS1164), of which only 2 or three copies are known to be exist in private collections. Despite the song titles, this is actually a strange and unusual rock album which just happens to have religious undertones. Organ, fuzz guitar, male and female lead vocals and masses of electronic embellishments. High-quality vinyl transfer, includes two [uncredited] bonus tracks from a later recording session. Previously pirated by Radioactive Records. Some of the most 'out there' psychedelic sounds can be found on this Kansas trio's mega-rare custom LP. One of the first Christian groups to tinker with synthesizers and be experimental at the same time. The song, 'Christian,' for example, opens with a Bach fugue before laying in its steady rock beat punctuated with subterranean wah-wah guitar and a wild, heavily modulated synth lead. The song, 'Wicked,' opens side two with a bizarre amalgam of what sounds like synthesized, bubbling lava pits, frequency oscillations, distorted, sci-fi vocals and shortwave, static patterns. This is Christian psychedelia at its most underground and extreme with all the ear marks of a bad drug trip which, given the songs' dark subject matter, works just fine. Likewise, 'What Shall We Do?' opens with a lengthy outpouring of some of the most vicious, distorted fuzz guitar ever then relaxes into a spooky, dream-like ballad before it climaxes with a flying saucer effect that sounds straight out of Dark Side Of The Moon. There are several fine and moody garage tracks here as well. Difficult to describe: they are highly listenable and quite creative. Dense echoes lend to the homemade feel of the entire project. A monster for sure with fewer than 500 LPs made at the initial pressing. Duncan Long, the main man behind the synths, guitars and song writing is now a published science fiction author."
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