Love Poetry & Revolution: British Psych / Various

2013 three CD collection, a journey through the British Psychedelic and underground scenes 1966-1972. Housed in a clambox with a lavishly annotated and illustrated 36 page booklet, this important release features much rare material, including previously unissued demo recordings by Tintern Abbey and Blossom Toes. Various heavyweight underground bands (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Hawkwind, the Deviants, etc) rub shoulders with acts who recorded some of the rarest, most valuable albums of the era (Forever Amber, Complex, Peter Howell & John Ferdinando), while the box also includes a number of subterranean bands - Middle Earth regulars Jade Hexagram, Neon Pearl, Respect and others - who failed to release anything during their lifetime. Embracing psychedelic pop the burgeoning progressive rock scene and acid folk, Love, Poetry and Revolution draws on a number of catalogs, including Beacon, the Vic Keary stable and various collector labelsto give a fascinating, all-embracing overview of what was a tumultuous few years in British pop/rock history.