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The Crystal Mansion The Crystal Mansion 1972 us beautiful mix of country folk funky psych soft prog rock korean 2016 remaster Formed in the early-1960s The Secrets were a Mount Laurel, New Jersey, based RnB cover band.  By 1968 the line up consisted of  singer Johnny Caswell, guitarist Ronnie Gentile, drummer Ricky Morley and keyboardist Sal Rota. Having adopted the name The Crystal Mansion,  the band was signed by Capitol where they enjoyed a modest national hit with the single The Though tof Loving You b/w Hallelujah (Capitol catalog number 2275 ). The singles success led Capitol to finance an LP, 1969s "The Crystal Mansion".  Dropped by Capitol, in 1972 the band reappeared on Motowns rock-oriented Rare Earth label.  Co-produced by the band, the cleverly titled "The Crystal Mansion" found the band largely abandoning their early pop sound in favor of a  into a myriad of styles, including country, psych and even progressive moves.     Even though ...

Riff Raff Original Man 1974 uk remarkable jazz prog rock 2017 korean remaster Tommy Eyre and Roger Sutton were neighbours in 1969. Eyre was the organ player with Joe Cockers Grease Band, and when the band broke up after their No.1 hit () - "With a Little Help From My Friends") he chose to stay in London and try his luck rather than go back home to Sheffield. Tommy got the gig with Aynsley Dunbars Retaliation and brought Roger in for the Blue Whale project. When Aynsley left to join Frank Zappa, Roger, in turn, introduced Tommy to John Mark and Johnny Almond who had just left John Mayalls Turning Point band. The four of them became the Mark-Almond Band which was very succesful in the USA for about three years. Roger Sutton left the Mark-Almond Band shortly before their third album, when he and Jon Mark couldnt get along, () - check Rogers lyric, "God damn the man who ever tried to put his mark on you"). It was recorded in a place that Richard Branson had recently ope...

Riff Raff Riff Raff 1973 uk fantastic prog rock 2016 korean remaster Riff Raffs self-titled effort from 1973 was the bands first album proper. Alan Marshall was not replaced when he left, with Tommy Eyre, Roger Sutton, and Pete Kirtley all taking turns on the vocal chores. The jazz -rock sound that Eyre and Sutton had explored with Mark-Almond was the springboard for the exploratory rock music made by Riff Raff. Here deep groove -- � la Brian Augers Oblivion Express -- and tough rock choruses and dynamics were married to the jazz sense of structure and composition. Far more "progressive" sounding than their early demos, this music nonetheless has little to do with the excesses of the Canterbury Scene. From the opener, with the glorious Fender Rhodes and electric guitar interplay in which the blues and jazz commingle in a rock picture frame, through the improvisational melodic and modal work on "Dreaming" to the glorious theatricality and drama of "La M�me Chose...