Help TTK with Weird Post-"Jesus Christ Superstar" Religious/Ecology Compilation

[Joe]

2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

They made a third album?  I know of only two.

Yep! https://www.discogs.com/master/185305-The-West-Coast-Pop-Art-Experimental-Band-Vol-3-A-Childs-Guide-To-Good-Evil

But it dates from 1968, so pre-JCS. But definitely apocalyptic / Manson-esque.

Edited January 14, 2023 by Joe

[Teasing the Korean]

3 minutes ago, Joe said:

But it dates from 1968, so pre-JCS. But definitely apocalyptic / Manson-esque.

Thanks.  Post-JCS is not a dealbreaker, but it seems like something in the collective consciousness crystalized at the time.

Edited January 14, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[felser]

5 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

They made a third album?  I know of only two.

They actually made six.  I have them all on CD.  All have highlights and lowlights.

• Volume One (1966)
• Part One (1967)
• Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) (1967)
• Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil (1968)
• Where's My Daddy? (1969)
• Markley, A Group (1970)

 

[Jim Duckworth]

But I'm here to tell you there's something else
The afterworld
A world of never ending happiness
You can always see the sun, day or night

Prince is good for the odd religious lyric-sometimes in unexpected places.  The above comes from Let's Go Crazy.

[Gheorghe]

I can´t really help. The only a bit churchy based music I heard was stuff like Mingus´"Wendsday Night Prayer Meeting" or Horace Silver´s "The Preacher" or Hank Mobley´s "Baptist Beat". 

They groove, that´s all I can say. 

Not more, maybe because religion never was a topic with my parents or friends or women..... and I´m no member of a religious group and don´t intend to have a religious funeral after my last beat.....

[Bluesnik]

On 1/9/2023 at 9:37 PM, Joe said:

Only Catholicism produces that brand of "Satanism."

That's something I can only agree with. Coming from an extremely Catholic country I see a lot of that flip flop.

[Teasing the Korean]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I can´t really help. The only a bit churchy based music I heard was stuff like Mingus´"Wendsday Night Prayer Meeting" or Horace Silver´s "The Preacher" or Hank Mobley´s "Baptist Beat". 

They groove, that´s all I can say. 

Not more, maybe because religion never was a topic with my parents or friends or women..... and I´m no member of a religious group and don´t intend to have a religious funeral after my last beat.....

Nor has it ben with me.  As I said multiple times in the thread, I was raised with zero, zilch religion and am completely agnostic.  This kind of thing appeals to me as an outsider looking in, and also because the mood nicely pairs with the bleakness of January and February.

But it is really an aesthetic I am seeking.  Messages of rebirth, the ecology, etc.  The best examples will have a choir, along with a jazz-rock backing, e.g, updating religious messages with the sounds of today.  If they throw in a Moog, even better.  Any religious elements will be coming from a 70s progressive perspective and not an 80s fundamentalist angle.

David Axelrod's Earth Rot album is probably the purest distillation of what I'm seeking, and he sustains it for the entire LP.  If In a Silent Way had a choir and lyrics about rebirth or the ecology, it would make the cut.  

Take 3:43 out of your life and turn on and tune in to this.

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[JSngry]

 

[Joe]

I feel like maybe Jim Sullivan's UFO may qualify. Great record regardless. Arrangements by Jimmy Bond. Drums by Earl Palmer.

It's more freak-folk, but you might also check out the Relatively Clean Rivers LP.

 

[Gheorghe]

On 1/19/2023 at 3:04 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

Nor has it ben with me.  As I said multiple times in the thread, I was raised with zero, zilch religion and am completely agnostic.  This kind of thing appeals to me as an outsider looking in

 

 

 

Same here. Then in the old days "Old Man Frosty" instead of "Santa Claus" 😄