A heads up for lovers of the strange

entropy

A heads up for lovers of the strange
December 10, 2014 09:25AM

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Posts: 147

Never thought this would exist, but a "remastered" reissue of the bizarre Arcesia LP is available:

Arcesia - Reachin' on Guerssen

I wasn't familiar with this label, but it looks like they've rescued/restored a lot of rare, oddball music from the '60s and '70s. I ordered a copy from Forced Exposure and eagerly await its arrival.

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MrFab

Re: A heads up for lovers of the strange
December 11, 2014 11:36AM

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Posts: 3,285

Thanks for the tip, entropy. I've had a download of this for a while. For those not familiar with the legend of Arcesia, supposedly he was a middle-aged former big band singer wh took acid and made a wacked-out private press psych album.

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HollowbodyKay

Re: A heads up for lovers of the strange
December 12, 2014 12:43PM

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For those not familiar with the legend of Arcesia, supposedly he was a middle-aged former big band singer wh took acid and made a wacked-out private press psych album.

Arcesia. Somewhere between Mr. Magoo and Syd Barrett? Anyway, it's staggeringly weird stuff.

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Thanks for the heads up.

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Edited to add (courtesy of Guerssen.com via Google Translate):

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"Everything a classic within the psychedelic collectors and "Incredible Strange Music", the only album recorded by the crooner Arcesia has always been the result of strange rumors and bizarre stories. In this, the first official reissue, finally the true history of this curious character explains. John "Arcesia" Arcesi was a veteran of the big bands of the 40s to early 70s, after the death of his wife, decided to record an album that reflected their artistic and spiritual concerns.

Recorded with the help of an anonymous group hippie, "Reachin 'Arcesia" was published in 1972 in a private edition of 300 copies. An amazing mix of voice to crooner (think more exaggerated Scott Walker or more melodic Jim Morrison) and pop arrangements with occasional fuzz guitar and organ. The album was distributed among family and friends and was buried forever in the memory. But in the 80s, the musicologist Paul Major found a copy in a thrift store and fell rendered before Arcesia, insert the disc into the circuit collecting private pressings, giving birth to the legend of Arcesia, the king of psychedelia "real people "

Home opened with new design on the front and original art on the back. Detailed notes telling the true story of Arcesia first and a rare picture of the time the original disc.

Insert with lyrics. Cuidadosemante original vinyl remastered sound (there are no masters)

"Imagine" Charles Westover "Del Shannon with Father Yod's voice and you get an idea," Patrick Lundborg (Acid Archives)

"Reachin 'Arcesia combines a psychedelic musical background with voice to what Scott Walker and spiritual lyrics that speak on a life full of disappointments. Arcesia, a widower age 50 he recorded the LP era, put his whole life into a piece of . it takes time to get used vinyl amateur recording sound but the result is impressive "- Bob Stanley (The Guardian)

tracklist:

Reaching - Summer Love - Mechanical Doll - Butterfly Mind - Desiree - Rainy Sunday - Pictures in my Window - Soul Wings - White Panther - A Leaf - Voice of Love

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Awesome. I know what I want for Christmas.

Post Edited (12-12-14 16:59)

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