A true throwback. Very interesting to listen to Meat Bones Chemicals Electricity, Eamon Ra's album from this year and from what I can see his first. I say it's from this year, but spiritually it's really not at all.
Really it's from 1965 where The Byrds first started making that heavenly, mesmeric raga sound with their Rickenbackers and The Who first started rattling their cages.Meat Bones Chemicals Electricity mostly stays between '65 and '67 during the course of its run, taking in some of The Kinks impeccable charm and cutting irony.
Very occasionally it fast forwards to Lennon and Nilsson aching, pained delivery of the early Seventies, pretty much the dying embers of this particular dream. Sometimes I was reminded of Neil Innes, court jester to The Beatles and his particular way with melody.
So this is a time capsule essentially, back to a time when the world was, well not exactly innocent, but certainly a lot more straightforward than the one we live in now. Why Ra has chosen to do this I have no idea, but he does it very well, and I imagine there are sure to be plenty of takers.
He pitches his tent straight off and sticks to his remit for the course of Meat Bones Chemicals Electricity. My description here of what goes on over the course of its ten brief tracks should be sufficient to help you decide whether you wish to investigate further.
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