Holy Modal Rounders feat. Peter Stampfel - The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders

Some years ago the zero crew had the chance to experience a weird live gig by Peter Stampfel in a small venue. Remembering this great evening, here´s a classic Holy Modaly Rounders album featuring Peter Stampfel.

In the mid- to late '60s you couldn't get much further underground in the ever-expanding world of rock music than the Fugs — unless of course you were one of the Holy Modal Rounders, i.e. folk musicians Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber. The Rounders started out in the same early-'60s New York folk and jug scene as Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, and had crossed paths numerous times. Stampfel and Weber will be eternally remembered for "Bird Song," which was prominently featured in both the movie Easy Rider and its soundtrack. It's also the opening cut on "The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders", an album way beyond anything else considered to be "far out" at the time. Unabashed in its own eccentricity, this set is similar to their 1967 ESP release "Indian War Whoop" in that it combines acoustic traditional American folk, blues, and hillbilly music regurgitated by crazed folkie acidheads experimenting with electric instruments. Following the disc's release, Stampfel said this album reflected producer Frazier Mohawk's musical taste more so than the band's. The Modal duo are assisted, in this case, by playwright Sam Shepard on tambourine, Richard Tyler on piano, and John Wesley Annis on bass and drums. As good luck would have it, the Water label unleashed this CD on the public for the first time in 2002 with two previously unreleased bonus tracks. Absolutely essential.

(Thanks to Bone Money Blog for the description)


Tracklist:                           

A1	Bird Song
A2	One Will Do For Now
A3	Take-Off Artist Song
A4	Werewolf
A5	Interlude
A6	Dame Fortune
B1	Mobile Line
B2	The Duji Song
B3	My Mind Capsized
B4	The STP Song
B5	Interlude 2
B6	Half A Mind
B7	The Pledge

Holy Modal Rounders feat. Peter Stampfle - The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders
(320 kbps, cover art included)