Barcelona based Heavy Psych Rock act Prisma Circus was founded only recently, and so we must assume that the stars were aligned just correctly to find the band binging out its debut full-length album merely 3 ½ years after the band's conception.
As you might now, World In Sound occasionally digs up some of those lost gems in Psychedelic music which have long since been out of print...and one of those gems is this here self-titled album by a group of Detroit based youngsters who recorded the thing back in 1970.
The Power Trio known as Doctor Cyclops was founded in 2007 in Bosmenso (a really small village situated some 50 km North by North-East of Genova, in the Appenine mountains of North Italy) by childhood friends, singer/ guitarist Christian Draghi and bassist Francesco Filippini (who, if I got the info correct, had already played in another band together, but only went for their own personal tastes in music by forming DC), and drummer Alessandro Dallera.
The Lone Crows is a US psych blues rock quartet composed of Tim Barbeau - Lead Vox, Guitar; Julian Manzara – Guitar, Andy Battcher - Bass and Joe Goff – Drums. Musically, this is the basic blues rock formula perfected by Wolfmother, Triggerfinger and Black Keys, a liberal dose of Jimi Hendrix, a pinch of Muddy Waters and flavoured with a whole wild bunch of fantastic guitar solos.
Once I started to listen to this album, I could tell there was some talent here. There are tendencies to Colour Haze-like jam a little as well as softer Floydian-moments. The band always plays as a unit, never allowing the solos to become grandiose or detract from the song as a whole. Buddha Sentenza are brimming with musical ability and SWLVR provide a platform on which to display these talents.
