The Red Crayola: Mayo Thompson, Rick Barthelme, Steve Cunningham.
Additional personnel includes: Roky Erickson.
This release features a special gatefold LP-style CD sleeve.
The Red Crayola: Mayo Thompson, Rick Barthelme, Steve Cunningham.
Additional personnel includes: Roky Erickson.
Red Crayola was one of the freakiest bands of the 1960s, and that's no mean feat. Visionary wierdo Mayo Thompson and a couple of Texan pals made up the first incarnation of the mercurial group (legal wrangles with a certain crayon company would soon find the band replacing the "c" in its name with a "k"). The resulting debut, PARABLE OF ARABLE LAND, is mind-bendingly psychedelic without resorting to any of the now-dated tropes of the era.
You'll find no backwards guitars or electric sitars here. Instead, there are six wild and wooly pieces, each bearing the prefix "Free Form Freakout." A glorious cavalcade of skewed-sounding guitars, percussive havoc, and voices create a discordant sonic tapestry that occasionally deigns to fall into a traditonal melody or harmony. Echoes of everything from free jazz to the later freakiness of krautrock can be heard in these highly experimental and wonderfully wierd tracks.
Red Crayola was one of the freakiest bands of the 1960s, and that's no mean feat. Visionary wierdo Mayo Thompson and a couple of Texan pals made up the first incarnation of the mercurial group (legal wrangles with a certain crayon company would soon find the band replacing the "c" in its name with a "k"). The resulting debut, PARABLE OF ARABLE LAND, is mind-bendingly psychedelic without resorting to any of the now-dated tropes of the era.
You'll find no backwards guitars or electric sitars here. Instead, there are six wild and wooly pieces, each bearing the prefix "Free Form Freakout." A glorious cavalcade of skewed-sounding guitars, percussive havoc, and voices create a discordant sonic tapestry that occasionally deigns to fall into a traditonal melody or harmony. Echoes of everything from free jazz to the later freakiness of krautrock can be heard in these highly experimental and wonderfully wierd tracks.