Spirit (1968 album)

Spirit, an album whose multifarious experimentalism owes in large part to the contemporary successes of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, earmarked the humble beginnings and grand aspirations of its homonymous authors. From sitar strums in "Girl in Your Eye" to dulcet strings in "Taurus", the influences an increasingly meditative society had on the work are obvious. While the mindset required to produce Spirit was ubiquitous, however, the endeavour itself was far from clichèd. The eclecticism of Randy California's writing coupled Barrett's psychotropism with Morrison's West Coast bohemianism; and although the result proved somewhat inaccessible to hoi polloi, it made the project ripe for underground FM airtime. The band would later curtail its psychedelia by focusing on a broader array of genres.

Related Topics:
The Beatles' - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Pink Floyd's - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Homonymous authors - Randy California's - Barrett's - Psychotropism - Morrison's - Bohemianism - FM - Psychedelia

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This inchoate release was published first by Ode records in 1968. It has since been reprinted by Sony?repackaged in compact-disc form and remastered from original analogue tapes.

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Ode records - 1968 - Sony

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