Silver Apples
Silver Apples/Contact
MCA 1997

01. Oscillations
02. Seagreen Serenades
03. Lovefingers
04. Program
05. Velvet Cave
06. Whirly-Bird
07. Dust
08. Dancing Gods
09. Misty Mountain
10. You and I
11. Water
12. Ruby
13. Gypsy Love
14. You're Not Foolin' Me
15. I Have Known Love
16. A Pox on You
17. Confusion
18. Fantasies

Amazing shiznit right here. Initially called "The Overland Stage Electric Band", the group leaves 3 guitarists behind, takes a new name from one of Yeats' poems, and since 1968, starts recording what came to be groundbreaking sounds of the hippie era. These 18 tracks are actually the Silver Apples' first two albums on a single CD and, aside from the vocals, have little to do with the hippie credo. Simeon Coxe - the brain behind it all - makes his own "Simeon" synth from nine oscillators. For triggering all its 86 commands, he uses hands, elbows, knees and even the soles of his feet. Dan Taylor - the only one who could keep up with the "synthesizer man" - follows him with outstanding percussion and, yes, the chemistry between the two works quite a treat. Hypnotic minimal bass patterns, moving lyrics, utterly hypnotic drumming - and it almost sounds like it was made yesterday. True pioneers of electronic music, this is what being "ahead of time" is about (a new re-issue of Contact coming really soon on Bully Records with just a few added synths - just another proof of their actuality after 37 years time).

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