Chamaleon Church [Import]

Product Description
Originally released in 1968 on MGM. A flower-power-pop band featuring Ultimate Spinach, Ted Myers and Tony Scheuren and a very young Chevy Chase. Produced by Alan Lorber. Akarma Records. Deluxe gatefold digipak. 2000 release.

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Average customer rating: addendum Groovy music, compassionate rhetoric . . . Warm, swirly, healing,and brilliant Not just a Chevy Chase footnote...a fine album.

Chamaleon Church Chamaleon Church Manufacturer: Akarma ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000058543 Release Date: 2004-08-09

Tracks:

1. Come Into Your Life
2. Camillia Is Changing
3. Spring This Year
4. Blueberry Pie
5. Remembering's All I Can Do
6. Flowers In The Field
7. Here's A Song
8. In A Kindly Way
9. Tompkins Square Park
10. Picking Up The Pieces
11. Off With The Old
12. Ready, Eddie?
13. Your Golden Love

Album Description

Originally released in 1968 on MGM. A flower-power-pop band featuring Ultimate Spinach, Ted Myers and Tony Scheuren and a very young Chevy Chase. Produced by Alan Lorber. Akarma Records. Deluxe gatefold digipak. 2000 release.

Customer Reviews:

addendum.......2003-05-04

The more I listen to this CD the more obsessed I become. It truly is an all-time classic - the music trippy & warm...the lyrics are just brilliant and very wise & kind. The album is kind of a sonic mixture of The Left Banke's THE LEFT BANKE TOO (one of the lead singers even sounds a lot like The Left Banke's George Cameron who sang lead on "Goodbye Holly" and "Bryant Hotel") and The Byrds' NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHERS, and, of course, The Beatles. Order this right away! My favorite tracks are "Remembering's All I Can Do" and "In A Kindly Way" Both georgeous and heartbreaking.

Groovy music, compassionate rhetoric . . ........2002-10-23

Baroque/psychedelic pop-rock [from Boston] usually orbiting somewhere between the Left Banke, Spanky & Our Gang [and the Association . . . in their better moments]. There are even ample helpings from a palate very similar to parts of Circus Maximus' 'Neverland' album . . . most particularly several rhythmic/melodic figures on track #6, which are, even if derivative, more at paraphrase than direct quotation, and very skillfully wrought. Then again, I'm not really sure who came first.

The musical space is pretty light and airy in general, with a lot of reverb/echo in spots; the harmony vocals tend toward a somewhat unearthly ambience, though clearly of a friendly sort. Very conversational, given the strong dosage of counter-cultural rhetoric; these guys are very believable, all their sweetness notwithstanding. Emotional closeness and intermittent glimpses of imaginative distance cohere in a sort of magical blend.

They introduce one into the new agenda of 'the times' [c. 1968] without at all being threatening or arrogant, so you can ease on in. In other words, we've got a grouping of pretty compassionate souls here, not ego-drenched self-referring proselytizers. They get their message across by allowing one to become part of the experience, without forcing.

The singing is uniformly gorgeous, as is the playing and the overall mix, with one and only one caveat: sometimes it's difficult to hear what words are being sung. This is partly due to two factors, both of which, strangely enough, work to enhance the quality of Chamaeleon Church's overall sound: these are the density of the arrangement of the vocal harmonies, and the amount of the reverberation in the mix.

Warm, swirly, healing,and brilliant.......2002-02-10

A must for fans of bands like The Left Banke and The Zombies

Psychedelia that will heal your heart and make you smile

Don't let this amazing album be forgetten

Not just a Chevy Chase footnote...a fine album........2001-06-07

Although this group is best known for containing future comedian Chevy Chase, their album stands on its own as a fine example of psychedelic pop. The sound is best described as a dreamy amalgam of soft pop and psychedelic rock similar to bands like Gandalf, The Freeborne, Fever Tree, Mandrake Memorial, etc. The album features orchestration on many of the tracks, but it is very well-tempered, tasteful, and non-intrusive. "Camillia Is Changing," the A side of the group's only single, is a particularly excellent and dreamy song which lasts for a heavenly four minutes and thirteen seconds of bliss. Overall, a very enjoyable album to listen to. This reissue comes from the Italian Akarma label, and the CD is housed in a mini-LP digipak sleeve which replicates the original album cover in CD size. This CD features two bonus tracks not on the original 1968 MGM album: the demo "Ready Eddie" and the flipside to "Camilla Is Changing," "Your Golden Love." Sound quality is fairly good, although their is some intrusive tape hiss and hum occasionaly, and "Camillia Is Changing" is featured in mono while all the others from the album are in stereo.

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