Kaleidoscope (UK) - Faintly Blowing (1969)

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No relation to the far better known American Kaleidoscope, though this British group was also psychedelic, and was active at almost exactly the same time in the late '60s. Highly esteemed by some collectors, Kaleidoscope epitomized certain of the more precious traits of British psychedelia with their fairy-tale lyrics and gentle, swirling folky sound. At times they sound like a far more melodic and accessible Incredible String Band. Their folky ballads have aged best, and although there's some period charm to be found throughout their two albums, it's all a bit too cloying to rank among the finest unknown psychedelia. Although they had a solid underground reputation in Britain, they never found wide success, and evolved into a similar group, Fairfield Parlour, by the end of the '60s.(allmusic.com)

Kaleidoscope were an English psychedelic and progressive rock group that existed from 1967 to 1969...Read More...

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Kaleidoscope - Faintly Blowing

For their second album, Kaleidoscope delivered something an awful lot like their debut, a body of pleasant, trippy, spacy raga-rock, with the main difference that they pushed the wattage a little harder on their instruments — they'd also been performing pretty extensively by the time of their second long-player, and a lot of the music here was material that they'd worked out on-stage in very solid versions. The result is a record just as pretty as their debut but a little punchier and more exciting within each song than their first album. The title track is also one of the more beautiful psychedelic effects pieces of its period, while "A Story from Tom Bitz" is crunchy folk-rock, "(Love Song) For Annie" represents a more lyrical brand of druggy folk-rock, and "If You So Wish" shifts over to Moody Blues-style ballad territory circa late 1968 and early 1969.(allmusic.com)

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01-Faintly Blowing02-Poem03-Snapdragon04-A Story From Tom Bitz05-(Love Song) For Annie06-If You So Wish07-Opinion08-Bless The Executioner09-Black Fjord10-The Feathered Tiger11-I'll Kiss You Once12-Music
Bonus:13-Do It Again For Jeffrey14-Poem15-Balloon16-If You So Wish17-Let The World Wash In18-Mediaeval Masquerade

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