Two CDs of live recordings from 1972 of astral rock instrumentals, like Sun Ra meets Hawkwind and F/i. These are primarily long form experimental jams, but lyrics, poetry makes its way. Recorded live it has a perfect low fi quality. You can hear the infamous synth tones that trademarked Pere Ubu’s seminal Modern Dance (“non alignment pact”) a few years later here and there!!Insanely good; it makes sense as check out the pedigrees of members in the following label promo: “The experimental Cleveland musical collective was first conceived and visualized by Robert Bensick (The Robert Bensick Band/Fins/Berlin West), in the Spring of 1972 as a sound performance piece to be presented at Bensick's Cleveland State University "artist of the year" show. The group's core members included drummer/percussionist Scott Krauss (Pere Ubu/Home & Garden/Cinderella Backstreet), synthesist Allen Ravenstine (Pere Ubu/Red Crayola), and electric and acoustic bassist Albert Dennis (Cinderella Backstreet/Wolves). Pianist Bob Friedhofer (Froggy & the Shrimps), conga player/percussionist Richard Schneider, and Mellotron player Cynthia Black (Cinderella Backstreet/Peter & the Wolves) also contributed significantly to the collective at various times.”

Disc 1: 1) (2:48) bizarre electronic noise, analog, dark, realizing that part of it is a voice slowed waaaaay down 2)* (5:37) distortion noise in intro then a drum beat appears and it launches into a great space rock extravaganza 3)* (16:21) a false start, then after a minute or so a mindful hypnotic jam ensues, piano, bells, some Sun Ra esque mystical vocals 4) (1:14) water sounds, then a lullaby solo voice, lyrics 5) (4:23) bowed bass, long tones, bow exchange intro, then industrial organic found sound (digging? Traffic?), experimental with some distant synth tones 6) (5:13) synth tones, upright bass, free improv feel, drums appear later, synth ratchets up, strains of Syrinx come to mind 7) (3:32) more free-improv, drums, synth, noise, organ 8)* (8:01) begins very quiet, but percussion begins to filter in, experimental, minimal, if jarring, fades out after 2 minutes then a different piece appears in a sense, whistles, lots of natural reverb, but still percussion, evolves to an interesting mix, bowed bass, vocs, cool, dark 9) (1:33) 10) (0:47) backwards, vocals, cool 11) (0:41) introduction, low fi, 1972 12)* (7:47) flute, slightly plodding marching jam, Sun Ra comes to mind, excellent jam 13) (4:54) flute and bass, very mystical feel 14) (3:04) mellow, flute and guitar, somber

Disc 2 1) (1:55) strange mix of vocals, exp, then an analog synth wash 2)* (8:22) sleigh bells and bass, flute, dark 3) (4:14) piano and flute, conga, midway falls silent, but comes back 4)* (10:29) epic, weird synth, percussion, upright bass done right, killer Moog noise washes 5) (9:05) cool synth noise, chill, nice bass bowing drones, minimal 6)* (10:44) a lovely jam that evolves slowly, some spoken vocals appear, live feel apparent, nice piano and flute, wow 7) FCC 8) (3:00) acoustic guitar, studio sounds, woofy bass, flute, heavily echoed vocs 9)* (6:40) big rock jam, the biggest in the bunch, Velvet Underground’ish 10)* (8:46) killer, great piano and flute led jam with soaring analog synths, great stuff, crowd noise