13th Floor Elevators: Fire Engine (3mins 23secs) Album: Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators Charly SNAP038
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Herbie Mann: Flute Bag (4mins 25secs) Album: The Family of Mann/The Wailing Dervishes Collectables 6827
BACKGROUND
A collection of unusual percussion. Congo's Konono No 1, as well as being masters of the mbira, use car parts, lumps of metal and anything else handy to create that rhythmic Bazombo trance music. Roky Erikson's 13th Floor Elevators were bestowed with an electric jug player which, like so may electrical items, would sound surplus to requirements at first but its only when its gone do you realise you can't live without it. And Herbie Mann's Flute Bag was written by, and features, Jazz's premier exponent of the bagpipes Rufus Harley.