Men Music | Those Shocking Shaking Days 3Lp

Lavish Compilation Spelling The Untold Story Of Late ’60S/Early ’70Sindonesian Psyche-Funk. It Follows Sublime Frequencies’ Recent Exposesof The Same Period Of Indonesian Musical History On Their Revelatoryreissues Of Albums By Dara Puspita And Koes Plus, Who Coincidentallyappear On This Album, Too. ‘Those Shocking, Shaking Days’ Is A Labour Oflove Compiled, Researched And Assembled By Stones Throw/Now-Again’Segon, Together With Notorious Crate Digger, Jason “Moss” Connoy, And Ayoung Indonesian Ex-Pat, Chadra Drews, Whose Sleevenotes Lend Somehistorical And Political Context To These Great Examples Of The Globalpsyche-Funk Boom.

Much Of The Music Here Was Created During The Earlyyears Of “New Order” After President Suharto’S Military Coup, At A Timewhen The Floodgates Were Opened To Musical Influence From American Andeurope Following A Period Of Imposed Abstinence From “Western Culturalimperialism”, Meaning Records By Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones,And Even Poor Old Tom Jones Were Banned In An Attempt To Correct Thebalance Towards Traditional Indonesian Values After Three Centuries Ofdutch Colonial Rule. Of Course, Their Influence Couldn’T Be Erasedcompletely And After The Regime Change Myriad Hard And Psychedelic Rockrecords From The Likes Of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix Andblack Sabbath Were Assimilated And Imitated In The Music Of Groups Suchas Koes Plus, Aka, And Shark Move, Who All Appear Amongst The Twentytracks On Offer.

Deluxe Packaging: 3Xlp Packaged In A Six-Panel Triple Gatefold Jacket + 16 Page Full Color Booklet!

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