O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends - 1971 (2009 Locust Music 110)Жанр: Acid Prog, Psychedelic Folk, Chamber Folk Страна исполнителя: USA Страна - производитель диска: USA Год издания: 1971 Год переиздания: 2009 Издатель (лейбл): Locust Music Номер по каталогу: 110 Тип: CD, Reissue, Remastered Аудио кодек: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: (tracks + .cue) Риппер:CUE created by Medieval CUE Splitter Битрейт аудио: lossless Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: full scans, 300 dpi Продолжительность: 50:25 Источник (релизер): blog Plain and Fancy Трэклист:
1. Legends - 5:02
2. A Tale Of A Crimson Knight - 4:12
3. Be Alive - 3:53
4. Renaissance And Rococo - 4:21
5. Midnight Carnival - 8:27
6. Dawn Of Albion - 3:21
7. Upon The Wings Of Gabriel - 3:02
8. Breton Landscape - 2:52
9. Everyman And The Philosopher King - 5:37
10.Peace Of Mind - 3:49
11.Salvation Song - 3:49
12.Sunset Of Smiles - 1:56
All compositions by Stephen A. Titra Состав:
Stephen Titra - Percussion, Vocals
Dick Boyell - String, Horn Arrangement
Ellen Olsen - Piano
Al Keeler - Marimba, Orchestra Bells, Percussion, Vibraphone
Sam Larderuccio - Electric Piano
John Knudson - Flutes
Frank Schabold - Electric Bass
Tommy Radke - Drums, Percussion
Steve Kauffman - Drums, Percussion
Of Wondrous Legends is one of the holy grails of unknown acid folk/folk-rock. As the story goes, Stephen Titra had played in various local Chicago groups, the most popular being the Uncalled Four (traditional folk), Rhythm’s Children (garage folk-rock) and of course, the legendary jam band Mountain Bus. Titra left Mountain Bus just before the group gained serious traction, eventually releasing their great Dead-inspired rural psych LP from 1971. Of Wondrous Legends was recorded at Universal Recording Inc. in 1971. Titra tried shopping the final product around to labels such as Elektra, Fantasy, A&M, Capital and RCA but there were no takers. Many of the record label A&R reps found O.W.L’s music hard to market, claiming the music was not commercial enough and that no one song on the LP stood out as a potential single. This music is hard to categorize as it doesn’t fit into any comfortable niche. The only reason this music was reissued is because Dawson Prater found one of the few pressings (maybe the only pressing!) of O.W.L in a Chicago thift store in the mid 2000’s. The O.W.L. project sounds nothing like Mountain Bus. Titra had been playing many of these songs live as early as 1967-1968. By the time he entered the studio many of his creations were fully developed and ready to record. Of Wondrous Legends holds a midground between the Left Banke (think “Shadows Breaking Over My Head” ) and Pearls Before Swine’s superb The Use Of Ashes LP. There are no sitars, psychedelic effects, feedback, crazed electric guitar solos or distorted vocals. Titra, vocals and guitars, is backed by a host of other musical instruments which include vibes, marimba, flute, alto, cello, drums, bass, piano, moog, mandolin and assorted horns. If anything, the album’s production gives it a psychedelic feel. The album is very strong and highly recommended to those who are into “progressive folk.” “Upon The Wings Of Gabriel” and “A Tale Of A Crimson “Knight” are powerful slices of acid folk that have spacey production values – these tracks are not to be missed by psych fans. “Be Alive” is what the Left Banke might have sounded like had they progressed into the early 70s albeit with more of a folk-rock approach to their music. O.W.L.’s most progressive piece, the dreamy eight and a half minute “Midnight Carnival,” is another intricate piece of music whose lyrics deal with unity and chaos. Finally, “Sunsets Of Smiles,” the closing track, is a very pretty folk song that feels much less produced when compared to the numbers that precede it.
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Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010 EAC extraction logfile from 23. September 2011, 10:22 O.W.L. / Of Wondrous Legends Used drive : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 Adapter: 0 ID: 0 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 48 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Gap handling : Appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\flac.exe Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s TOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 0:00.00 | 5:02.29 | 0 | 22678 2 | 5:02.29 | 4:12.61 | 22679 | 41639 3 | 9:15.15 | 3:53.56 | 41640 | 59170 4 | 13:08.71 | 4:21.13 | 59171 | 78758 5 | 17:30.09 | 8:27.28 | 78759 | 116811 6 | 25:57.37 | 3:21.07 | 116812 | 131893 7 | 29:18.44 | 3:02.22 | 131894 | 145565 8 | 32:20.66 | 2:52.17 | 145566 | 158482 9 | 35:13.08 | 5:37.33 | 158483 | 183790 10 | 40:50.41 | 3:49.69 | 183791 | 201034 11 | 44:40.35 | 3:49.46 | 201035 | 218255 12 | 48:30.06 | 1:56.30 | 218256 | 226985 Track 1 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\01 - Legends.wav Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00 Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 4.1 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC F533AC13 Copy CRC F533AC13 Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [7BF237F1] Copy OK Track 2 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\02 - Tale Of A Crimson Knight.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 4.3 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 125B638B Copy CRC 125B638B Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [9580E545] Copy OK Track 3 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\03 - Be Alive.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 4.3 X Track quality 99.9 % Test CRC B63AE5E8 Copy CRC B63AE5E8 Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [2D803E2B] Copy OK Track 4 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\04 - Renaissance & Rococo.wav Peak level 96.5 % Extraction speed 5.3 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC BF28E28F Copy CRC BF28E28F Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [097B99F2] Copy OK Track 5 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\05 - Midnight Carnival.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 5.5 X Track quality 99.9 % Test CRC AC3AEFB4 Copy CRC AC3AEFB4 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [005DE988], AccurateRip returned [EB3CBF6A] Copy OK Track 6 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\06 - Dawn Of Albion.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 5.8 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 1B857224 Copy CRC 1B857224 Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [D20C8861] Copy OK Track 7 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\07 - Upon The Wings Of Gabriel.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 5.2 X Track quality 99.9 % Test CRC B76AECF0 Copy CRC B76AECF0 Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [790DA9D4] Copy OK Track 8 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\08 - Breton Landscape.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 6.0 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC 780A4A22 Copy CRC 780A4A22 Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [9BD446B0] Copy OK Track 9 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\09 - Everyman & The Philosopher King.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 7.1 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC B0C8E9B2 Copy CRC B0C8E9B2 Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [58E4CB50] Copy OK Track 10 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\10 - Peace Of Mind.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 7.1 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC CD6F0EA6 Copy CRC CD6F0EA6 Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [F2F349E3] Copy OK Track 11 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\11 - Salvation Song.wav Peak level 96.6 % Extraction speed 7.3 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC BB2A2570 Copy CRC BB2A2570 Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [885C1A0E] Copy OK Track 12 Filename C:\Torrent\FLAC\O.W.L. - Of Wondrous Legends (1971) [FLAC]\12 - Sunsets Of Smiles.wav Peak level 95.9 % Extraction speed 6.2 X Track quality 100.0 % Test CRC B1AFF81E Copy CRC B1AFF81E Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [16D0C885] Copy OK 11 track(s) accurately ripped 1 track(s) could not be verified as accurate Some tracks could not be verified as accurate No errors occurred End of status report ==== Log checksum 3D80A67A9ACA7F57BB6088B675F5C81A553C24D65A72FF34EA22829D3E7E2C5C ====
