What to say about this curio? Never bought it at the time, tried to buy it for this blog but it never showed up. Decided to download it as well (perhaps the CD will turn up next week some time) and hence I've listened to it all the previous week.
7 Up was the bottle of drink spiked by Leary that lead to the recordings that make up the record. Cope indicates that it's composed of different tracks, but the copy I have has two tracks: Time and Space. This is yer actual psychedelic record - i.e. a record made by people taking drugs. Unfortunately this is a somewhat tedious classification as it turns out that it's far more interesting to listen to records of people pretending that they're on drugs than it is to listen to people who are actually on drugs.
This isn't a terrible record, but in the context of the preceding might of Ash Ra Tempel, then the contemplative beauty of Schwingungen, this seems a little crude. This is probably the influence of the Leary mob whose humour stretches to the "right hand lover" track on the first side of the record. It all becomes psychedelia in terms of too free form jamming and hilarious in jokes. The cover's beautiful though and there's another one with Leary at the controls which isn't as good but still pretty good.
Like a good trip it lacks direction and never reaches that point where you think that it's really locked into something awesome. The second side fares better, mainly on account of the lack of vocals and lack of too much larking about. Is it better than Traummaschine though? Not nearly close unfortunately and it's all a bit too Kaiser ish to really recommend. Though I imagine this record will be relived upon reaching the Cosmic Jokers section...
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