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Timeless
Energetic/stylized/sensitive projections from a bygone time
PSYCHEDELIC & MELLOW
Oozing with class and character

Aladdin/Dinner Music
Rotary Connection
Manufacturer: Raven [Australia]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I0JG
Release Date: 1999-03-12

Tracks:

Life Could
Teach Me How To Fly
V.I.P.
Let Them Talk
I Took A Ride (Caravan)
Aladdin
Magical World
I Must Be There
I Feel Sorry
Paper Castle
Pointillism/We Will Be Free
Living Alone
Lektricks #1
Country Things
Quartet
May Our Amens Be True
Stormy Monday Blues
Love Me Now
Lonely Summer
Amuse
Lektricks #2/Merry Prankster
Pump Effect/Want To Know

Product Description

1. Life Could
2. Teach Me How To Fly
3. V.I.P.
4. Let Them Talk
5. I Took A Ride (Caravan)
6. Aladdin
7. Magical World
8. I Must Be There
9. I Feel Sorry
10. Paper Castle
11. Pointillism giWe Will Be Free
12. Living Alone
13. Lektricks #1
14. Country Things
15. Quartet
16. May Our Amens Be True
17. Stormy Monday Blues
18. Love Me Now
19. Lonely Summer
20. Amuse
21. Letricks #2 giMerry Prankster
22. Pump Effect giWant You To Know

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Timeless.......2007-01-08

I wore out my LP of Aladdin years ago. Even the cover eventually
fell apart from extensive handling. What made this music so
desireable? One thin is the anthemic quality. You fell
like you are listening to songs of praise for a state of
consciousness in which you might not have had full citizenship,
but which you got to visit from time to time. It was an album
that made you fell good about your generation and its value.

The musical craftsmanship of this lovely album was also one of
the things that sustains it and makes it freshly appealing. The
work is fully orchestrated and musically ambitious. The themes
remain appealing. Don't you still want to take a ride in
the caravan? Wouldn't you love it if someone taught you how
to fly?

A lot of the psychedelic music of the sixties and seventies
seems remarkably childish today, but the Rotary Connection
remains a link with its feet on both sides of the time line.

--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the forthcoming novel bang BANG from Kunati Books.ISBN
9781601640005\

Energetic/stylized/sensitive projections from a bygone time.......2004-03-26

Take an utterly beautiful, soulful band like the Fifth Dimension and add a heavy, professionally-crafted theatrical sheen, and you've got Rotary Connection. One of my amazingly astute and lively college companions/girlfriends was heavily into theatre - and was wild about them. If you like listening to music that's reminiscent of 'Hair' and/or 'Jesus Christ Superstar', RC will be right up your alley - they're definitely a very artistic/dramatic/appealing element of the late 60's counter-cultural ethos.
It's also notable that some of the instrumental breaks and harmonic underpinnings veer a bit in the direction of folks like Van Dyke Parks - quite an avant-garde touch, as it were, and quite flavorful, if that's were your tastes lie.

PSYCHEDELIC & MELLOW.......2004-02-25

When I first heard this CD it was in 1969 or 1970. I saw the group live in my college town of Carbondale, Il. Funny part of the album is that it is psychedelic keeping in tune with the 60's, then it seems to mellow out alot for the 70's when everyone, almost everyone, smoked a little reefer. All kidding aside, this cd is 30 years ahead of its time, and Minnie Riperton died soon after this release. I just found this cd, been looking for it for years. My LP is totally trashed from years of playing.

Oozing with class and character.......1999-06-13

I thought about this for a long time and as it turns out it is really very simple. Aladdin is a wonderful album oozing with class and character. I had the pleasure of seeing these folks in concert shortly after Aladdin was released and to this day I consider their performance that evening one of my all time favorites. I don't know how it came to be that this album became lost in time, but I found it again and I am really glad I did.

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