Roger&Bunn.....Piece Of Mind..1969 FULL ALBUM Psychedelic Rock...

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Roger&Bunn.....Piece Of Mind..1969 FULL ALBUM Psychedelic Rock...Format:
CD, Album, Reissue
Pays: UK
Sortie: 2005
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock, Symphonic Rock..........1 Road To The Sun 5:44
2 Jac Mool 0:42
3 Fantasy In Fiction 1:33
4 Jac Mool 0:14
5 Crystal Tunnel 2:55
6 Three White Horses 2:42
7 Catalonia 2:43
8 Suffering Wheel 1:33
9 Guido The Magician 1:48
10 Powis Square Child 2:46
11 Old Maid Prudence 2:33
12 Humble Chortle 5:20
13 Jason's Ennui 1:50
14 110* East + 107* North 3:50
15 A Weekend In Mandraxia 6:34
16 Life Is A Circus 6:12
17 Falling Ships 3:19
18 In The Future 3:27
19 Lin-da's Jukebox 5:58
20 You And I 3:45
21 In Love With You Babe 5:10
22 Up For Grabs
Written-By – Pete Brown (5), Roger Bunn
5:47
Arranged By – Roger Bunn, Ruud Bos (pistes : 1 to 14)
Conductor – Ruud Bos (pistes : 1 to 14)
Guitar – Roger Bunn
Producer – Frans Peters (pistes : 1 to 14), Roger Bunn (pistes : 15 to 22)
Vocals – Roger Bunn
Written-By – Pete Brown (5) (pistes : 22), Roger Bunn
.....................But in 1969, Roger Bunn composed the words "streams of consciousness" with jazz rhythms and a sour psyche, punctuated by the occasional horns of James Brown, to make a unique album. How many albums, even in the 1960s, captured the true sense of uncharted territory visible in Ken Kesey's bus ride "Merry Pranksters"?

Throughout "Piece of Mind", we hear songs that have the same mythical sense of research that was more than fashion and drug use. The need for fun is certainly not just a new phenomenon. It seems that even the Beatles of the "Magic Mystery Tour" are drawn between the demands of well-crafted radio-friendly pop expectations and a sense of abandonment and new territory suggested by psychedelia.

Of course, they performed pretty well (as they did), but you could say that this rift between commercial expectations and artistic development is actually what ultimately crushed the Beatles. The "Magic Mystery Tour" (a movie anyway) certainly didn't go down well then, and it seemed to be a possible sign of complacency. But perhaps in retrospect we can see that this was just a sign of the complexity of time and the difficult balance that is needed to recreate an experience that is truly internal and "psychedelic" in a way that everyone can enjoy.

With "Piece of Mind", we have a real testimony of taking on the many influences of one person of the time, and the journey is definitely as inner as it is outward. Looking back, there will be those who prefer pop with psychedelic nuances in their music, as well as more accommodation for listeners who want their music in a certain way. But this is an album that sets its own standard.

While the Doors plastered some changes of jazz chords on "Light My Fire," they also couldn't escape the blues backdrop that placed them firmly in the traditional setting. "Piece of Mind" is partly jazz, but the sound changes from song to song and points to the experimentation of bands like Can, Agitation Free and German rock in the 1970s. Listeners may hear signs from folk, jazz and psychedelia, but it's actually a "sui generis" album that stands out as an anomaly. People may love it or hate it, but it might have something to do with where this album shows and the listener's attitude to the development of music and marketing that took place during the 1970s.

Regardless, this James Brown meets Arthur Brown meets Pete Brown the kind of eclectic style that's definitely ahead of its time. Although you can hear some folk and a lot of acoustic guitar, this is not a traditional album. The reference guide "Tapestry of Pleasures" calls Roger Bunn's "Piece of Mind" a 'weird but serious pop-sike'. This can be heard on the album along with a lot of other sounds.

Meeting Roger one afternoon and listening to him weave a conversation from history and religion through politics and music, (all the while accompanied by gentle improvisation on his electric guitar), I could tell that this is a person who puts a lot of himself into what he does. "Piece of Mind" is definitely time, but as a message from Roger himself, it also makes you see the artificial limits of our rush for "new" sounds and things. There's new and old, and there's really adventurous music.

"Piece of Mind" has some of the sounds of a certain time in music history, but it also has the lasting sound of someone trying something different. And it's that other part that largely explains the difference between entertainment and merchandise-based art. Ladislav&Zivanovic..........