Madrigal - 1971 - Madrigal (private press US psych)
Tracks :
1 Excursion 2:20 2 Stoned Freakout 12:56 3 The Ballad 2:56 4 Places
3:41 5 Tambula
8:42 6 Fallen Tree
4:15 7 Where You Going
3:20 8 B.B's Finale 2:48
Personnel:
WILLIAM BONKOSKI bs
WILLIAM HORN gtr, theremin, oscillator
(JOHN ACKERMAN)
ALBUM:
1(A) MADRIGAL (No label ARA/B 136) c1971 R4
Early seventies private press from New Jersey.
Experimental rock music with electronic drums (an early drum machine - the Maestro).
A very primitive affair; sounds like it was recorded live in a basement.
The record is dominated by an "anything goes" attitude, epitomised
by the 14'00" Stoned Freakout featuring druggy chatter and distorted
screams. An acquired taste, this one. Fans of the long tracks on the
first two Velvet Underground albums, should investigate further. I'm
told that Bill Horn released several later albums of either
electronic music or keyboard-based rock, but I don't have details. (Clark Faville)~Fuzz Acid & Flowers
If anything here in the Archives
fits the term "underground," it's this. Supposedly only about
50 copies were made and when one of the band members was found he was
rude and refused to talk about his album or disclose the whereabouts of
his bandmate. The record itself is a basement-sounding recording by two
guys with no help from anyone else, and only a tiny bit of overdubbing.
One guy plays guitar, one plays theremin, both sing, one of them runs a
drum machine. The vocals are heavily reverbed. About half of the songs
are random improvisations (including a 12-minute mess called
"Stoned Freakout") with unhinged screaming, feedback-laden
guitar and other various noises. The other half are pop songs, basically
done with just voice, guitar and drum machine. Some of these songs are
quite good, and as awful as fake drums can be, something about this
primitive machine only adds to the lonely DIY feeling here, making these
guys sort of a cross between Suicide, Moolah and Index. The vocals are
very good. "Ballad," which is so quiet that you can barely
hear the singing, is especially eerie. The closing instrumental is
really lame, like the instrumentals on the North County Rock Association
album. Obviously, much of this album is boring and/or annoying, but some
of it is pretty memorable too. More importantly, it's one of those
albums that sounds absolutely like nothing else, which always means that
someone out there will fall in love with it. Considering the rarity and
$1000 price tag, hopefully it will be reissued so that one person won't
go broke trying to find it. [AM]~Acid Archives Get it here : RapidShare or SendSpace
Many thanks for this rarity! Very strong underground album, truly mindblowing psych
20 August 2008
3.SHAWN
HEY WOW THIS IS SUCH A SHOCK I OWN A COPY OF THIS BECAUSE MY GRANDMOTHER GREW UP WITH BILL AND HIS FAMILY!!! MAYBE I COULD FIND OUT SOME INFORMATION FOR YOU BECAUSE I SEE HIM YEARLY AT A REUNION I GO TO WITH HER... I COLLECT GARAGE MUSIC AND WHEN I FOUND OUT HE RECORDED SOMETHING I HAD TO CHECK IT OUT! EMAIL THE ADRESS IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING AND ILL SEE WHAT I CAN ARRANGE CAUSE I WOULD LOVE TO HELP! I STOOD IN THE HOUSE IT WAS RECORDED IN! CRAZY...ITS IN MORRISTOWN NJ! WOW I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS WORTH $1000 EITHER! anyway i know its not the greatest album but this was still a shock to me and once again if you need anything let me know! i was talking to him and he said he had more material but the label didnt let him release it..he also wasnt very rude to me but maybe thats because i know him..he said he just doesnt talk to the other guy anymore..i guess they had problems? i dont know...but thanks for posting this...i was actually thinking of asking him if i could send it to a label so it could be reissued..so uh...thanks for posting this!
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