Jerry Cole Session - 101 Strings (1968) & Animated Egg (1968)

 

The Animated Egg - The Animated Egg (1968) @256

The Animated Egg were a studio-only group that issued a self-titled album of psychedelic instrumentals in the late '60s. It's now known that the chief instigator behind the Animated Egg was renowned Los Angeles session guitarist Jerry Kolbrak aka Jerry Cole, whose fuzzy leads (with some electric 12-string, surf, and Latin lines as well) dominate the arrangements. Cole also wrote the material, and though he was unsure of the other personnel when asked about the LP many years later, possible accompanists include Edgar Lamar and Don Dexter on drums; Tommy Lee and Glenn Cass on bass; Billy Joe Hastings and Norman Cass on guitar; and Billy Preston on organ. The Animated Egg, despite the high instrumental talent involved, sounds rather like it was thrown together in the studio to capitalize on the fad for psychedelic sounds, Cole playing on several other similar "psychsploitation" LPs in the same era credited to different groups.

 01. The Animated Egg - A Love Built On Sand 

 02. The Animated Egg - Inside Looking Out 

 03. The Animated Egg - I Said, She Said, Ah Cid 

 04. The Animated Egg - "T"omorrow 

 05. The Animated Egg - Sure Listic 

 06. The Animated Egg - Sippin' And Trippin' 

 07. The Animated Egg - Dark 

 08. The Animated Egg - Down, Down And Gone 

 09. The Animated Egg - Sock It My Way 

 10. The Animated Egg - That's How It Is 

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101 Strings – Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000 (1968  Alshire)[2009 Righteous] @ Flac

101 Strings "Astro Sounds" album is Jerry Cole's "Animated Egg" session with flanger effects and strings overdubbed.

Swirling guitars and proto-ambient electronica sounds from many light years away! The Astro-Sound of Magnificence, From Beyond the Year 2000...a unique capsule of a funky, psychedelic rhythm section jamming, with snarling, stabbing and swooshing cranked-up-to-infinity electric guitar voyages piloted by Wrecking Crew veteran Jerry Cole, polished and primed for takeoff with a string section playing eerie, beckoning melodies in unison. These are the sounds of epiphanies concerning the future, space and sounds on the horizon, circa 1969. The tracks for this album were recorded by Cole and other players during sessions for a separate longplayer and were deemed to be outtakes; the details as to how they became Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000 are dark and distant, but the 10 tracks here were first issued sans strings in 1967 as The Animated Egg, with alternate song titles. Two years later the recordings were overdubbed with the swirling, piercing phase-shifted strings mix you hear here, creating a spectacular fusion of psych-rock, R&B, easy listening and fuzz guitar, with hints of the coming worlds of ambient and electronica. These truly are the far out sounds of tomorrow’s unchartered trip, as the original album jacket proclaims "come aboard, launch and listen."

Original back cover 1968

"A space odyssey in the beat of today - with the far out sounds of tomorrow's uncharted trip beyond the now generation."

 01. 101 Strings - Flameout 

 02. 101 Strings - Re-Entry To Mog (That's How It is) 

 03. 101 Strings - Space Odyssey (Sure Listic) 

 04. 101 Strings - Astral Freakout (A Love Built On Sand) 

 05. 101 Strings - Orbit Fantasy (Inside Looking Out) 

 06. 101 Strings - Blues For The Guru 

 07. 101 Strings - Strings For Ravi 

 08. 101 Strings - Barrier X-69 

 09. 101 Strings - A Disappointed Love With A Desensitized Robot 

 10. 101 Strings - Where Were You In 1982? 

 11. 101 Strings - Trippin' On Lunar 07 

 12. 101 Strings - A Bad Trip Back In '69 

 13. 101 Strings - Karma Sitar 

 14. 101 Strings - Whiplash 

 15. 101 Strings - Instant Nirvana 

Tracks 13 to 15 are bonus tracks not featured on the original album, taken from the [m540910] LP (1970).

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