The Flower Pot Men - Peace Album Past Imperfect (Remastered) (1969-70/2000)

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The Flower Pot Men - Peace Album Past Imperfect (Remastered) (1969-70/2000)

Genre: Psychedelia Country of disc production: Germany Year of disc release: 2000 Publisher (label): Repertoire Records Catalog number: REP 4883 Country: United Kingdome Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac) Rip type: tracks+.cue Audio bitrate: lossless Duration: 73:13 Tracklist: Peace Album (1969) 01. Prologue 1:58 02. These Heavy Times 2:42 03. Mythological Sunday 5:44 04. Colours 2:44 05. Blow Away 5:52 06. Cooks Of Cake & Kindness 2:56 07. Gotta Be Free 3:30 08. Heaven Knows When 3:39 09. White Dove 4:09 10. Epilogue 1:38 Past Imperfect (1970) 11. Now And Then 3:55 12. Say Goodbye To Yesterday 3:02 13. Memories Of Tomorrow 2:35 14. Autumn Love 2:33 15. Morning Prayer 2:41 16. Blues 1:32 17. I Am Me 3:46 18. Journey's End 4:25 19. All You Have Is You 3:01 20. Brave New World 3:14 21. Children Of Tomorrow 7:02 Personnel: Peter Barnfather - Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Vocals (Background) Ken Lewis - Organ, Piano, Vocals, Producer, Vocals (Background) Barry Kingston - Synthesizer, Piano Richard Hudson - Percussion, Drums, Sitar, Washboard John Ford - Bass Alan Hawkshaw - String Arrangements Dave Kerma - Guitar John Carter - Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Vocals, Vocals (Background) Model of the group: the English analogue of the Americans Three Dog Night, with the only difference that the Americans had three frontmen, while the "Flowermen" had four. But it is usually remembered in connection with the presence of Jon Lord and Nick Simper in the backing line-up. So, in 1967, the single Let's Go To San Francisco appeared on the shelves of music stores - a beautiful sweet-voiced ballad, singing the beauties of a distant city in a typical hippie manner. The number won the fourth place in the national hit parade, but few knew that this famous ballad was just an opportunistic game for its authors, natives of Birmingham - John Carter and Ken Lewis, former members of the vocal group The Ivy League. It was they who made the weather in this project. The next three singles failed to repeat the success of the hit "Let's Go to San Francisco" and the vocal quartet - Tony Burrows, Neil Landon, Rob Shaw and Pete Nelson - moved away from the founding fathers, signed to Decca Records and released a couple of LPs under the name White Plains. Then Carter and Lewis themselves sat down at the instruments, attracted new musicians (among whom were future members of Strawbs - John Ford and Richard Hudson) and recorded two albums - Peace Album (1969) and Past Imperfect (1970), which until recently remained unreleased. The first of them is somewhat more interesting. The musical material of Peace Album is structured in the best traditions of conceptual albums of the sixties and consists of an introductory part, eight themes and an epilogue. The material is stylistically close to soft psychedelia, framed by rich orchestrations and chic polyphony (Carter and Lewis took on the vocals, fortunately they had experience). Very interesting is the composition THESE HEAVY TIMES - a dynamic and beautiful ballad in the style of the Byrds with bright anti-war lyrics. The best track, according to Carter and I agree with him: MYTHOLOGICAL SUNDAY - a psychedelic anthem, not inferior to Let's Go To San-Francisco. To emphasize the mood of the album, Donovan's song - COLORS, a three-minute folk epic, was included. The remaining material is still beautiful, but not so bright. The second record, Past Imperfect, the brainchild of John Carter, in which he explores the theory of time and the feeling of oneself in it. Very beautiful work, especially the semi-acoustic track SAY GOODBYE TO YESTERDAY and the orchestrated MEMORIES OF TOMORROW, in which traces of softer American melodists are noticeable - Simon and Garfunkel or Crosby, Stills & Nash. It's strange that the recordings lay on the shelf for many years, in any case the authors shouldn't be ashamed of them, and thanks to the Germans from Repertoire Records for reviving excellent examples of English pop-psychedelia of the late 60s