Cosmic Michael - Cosmic Michael 1969 ,us, groovy acid psych rock<br /><br />Cosmic Michael is a hippie who flipped after the “Wow, I have seen Woodstock” idea. -The world <br />is a great place now, so let’s boogie woogie blues our lives away.- The simple, happy innocence <br />sounds like it is being inspired out of almost nothing and made up on the spot (“I’m a child of <br />Woodstock generation” & "That's because she's my girl..". The way some instruments like <br />harmonica are recorded much louder than the voice makes the music even better, and a funny, and <br />a somewhat enjoyable, trippy-hippie-on-the-background experience. With all simplicity of <br />inspiration, the first couple tracks of the recording in this way sounds pretty “real”, but <br />when the guy keeps on playing covers he also shows something of his banality and a lack of <br />enough ideas to maintain its loner simple originality throughout the whole album.This was his <br />second album.<br /><br />Another description (by Ron Moore):<br />"NYC idiosyncratic piano guitar basement psych rock jamming <br />realness. The followup is stoned acoustic folk psych and was done in Los Angeles. It's not as <br />jawdropping as the debut but "Woodstock Nation" is hilarious."<br /><br />and some info by forcedexposure.com: <br />"'I am a child of Woodstock nation, I've come a long way from my home...' So sings the one and <br />only Cosmic Michael, on this the opening track of his second album released by the Bliss label <br />in 1970. An album now high on serious psych collector wants lists too... Cosmic Michael. Well, <br />some regard him as a 'Godhead,' the ultimate spiritual hippy, with songs of love, freedom & <br />peace, all delivered with just piano, vocals and kazoo...A true guru... But, what of the music? <br />I guess these days you'd call it loner psych, but back then the term 'freak rock' might have <br />been applied to such a release. After his eponymous, and equally enigmatic debut album released <br />a year earlier, he'd witnessed the Woodstock festival, absorbed the vibe, and relocated to Los <br />Angeles where he then recorded After a While, seemingly quite quickly...'I've seen The Who, and <br />Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane they nearly blew my mind....' The nine tracks on After a <br />While are stoned '60s DIY rock 'n'roll. You can call it lo-fi or home made, but the message <br />remains: Cosmic Michael preaches love and freedom, and he's a mean boogie-woogie player too. <br />The songs run one after the other, as if part of one spontaneous recording -- the moment one <br />ends, he's into the next, and so on. After a While is of its time, a snapshot of innocence when <br />it was believed music could change the world, and maybe it will yet."<br /><br /><br />Tracks<br /><br />1. Now That You've Found It - 0:00<br />2. Salty Jam - 3:56<br />3. Theme - 7:57<br />4. Too Much - 11:38<br />5. River City - 14:23<br />6. People's Fair - 16:30<br />7. Mother Earth - 19:00<br />8. The Heavy Boogie - 25:36
