Not much that made me prick up my ears in terms of new releases this Friday. So I went back instead. An article in the latest copy of Mojo led to me listen to the eponymous album from 1969 by British band Mighty Baby.
It's truly a time capsule to the time it was released. A rabbit hole to simpler days. Mighty Baby were previously working class North London Mods. But LSD and Pet Sounds led them off down a different path. To grow their hair and moustaches and take an Acid Folk route.
Inspired by The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Grateful Dead, Moby Grape and of their British contemporaries most obviously Fairport Convention, (and posssibly Traffic and Family), this is real Age of Aquarius stuff. Middle Earth. Not all to my taste, Mighty Baby is sometimes a bit too meandering and fond of freewheeling guitar solos for my liking.
Apparently turned on during a stay in Bognor Regis where they also opened up to Sufism, Islam and Buddism. There's very little of their Mod roots showing here. Tapping into Hippie interests; lay lines, the Occult and Stonehenge. Ther are too many influences at play hear to really gel, you can hear the formative seeds of Prog and early Seventies Metal here, but it remains an interesting listen.
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