COSMIC ROCK
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Distr.  : NE - Sonic Rendezvous
Style   : psychedelic /




COSMR   1
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COSMR   2       RELATIVELY CLEAN RIVERS : RELATIVELY CLEAN RIVERS       LP      02.2022

        01.     EASY RIDE
        02.     JOURNEY THROUGH THE VALLEY OF O
        03.     BABYLON
        04.     LAST FLIGHT TO HEAVEN
        05.     PRELUDE
        06.     HELLO SUNSHINE
        07.     THEY KNEW WHAT TO SAY
        08.     THE PERSIAN CARAVAN
        09.     A THOUSAND YEARS

Long before the term Cosmic Americana was of common use there was a band ideally
fitting the role. Back in 1976 the long psychedelic wave was rapidly fading away,
but the market of private press was still in demand. The self-debut album of
Relatively Clean Rivers came out the same year on the leader Phil Pearlman label.
Pacific Is released just this sole album and was to a certain extent an original
example of do it yourself. The brainchild of Phil Pearlman, the band was rapidly
crossing genres focusing on extended long jam verging on Californian psych and
proto-ambient country/folk. The man, a sort of local guru, was previously involved
in two other projects: Orange County own The Beat Of The Earth and The Electronic
Hole, so to speak different names for the same group of musicians. While those two
early efforts were explicitly devoted to a sort of LSD inducted trip, the Relatively
Clean Rivers stand on their own, merging styles and - finally - proposing an accurate
songwriting. The first press of this sough after underground masterpiece has been
traded for thousand dollars, now heres your chance to grab this rural manifesto.
With much of the music being acoustic, there are elements of morphing electric
guitars, smattered with strange spacey moments belaying a certain stoned atmosphere.
The album is imaginative, melancholic, mellow, and exotically webbed. And then
theres the band Wilco, citing the Relatively Clean Rivers as being inspirational.
Not a bad companion, right ? And if you just look at Jeff Tweedy instant progression
from Summerteeth to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot the suspect is more than reasonable. Well
give you one more hint, Kevin Morby has been probably fascinated but this long lost
gem as well.
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