Asoka - Asoka (1971)(2005)

Artist: Asoka
Title Of Album: Asoka
Year Of Release: 1971/2005
Label (Catalog#) : Mellotronen[MELLOCD 019]
Country:: Sweden
Genre: Prog Rock, Heavy Psych, Blues Rock
Quality: Flac (*image + .cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 75:06
Full Size: 525Mb(+3%)(covers)

Official Swedish hard rock psych release made directly from the master reels!!! Great album from 1971. The CD also includes 8 exclusive bonustracks featuring Asoka MK. II, MK.III, livesongs with Taste Of Blues and a 10 minute track with TAKE OFF (pre-Asoka). Pictures and complete story housed in a nice digipack!! These guys hit you with a sound featuring bombastic drumming with double bass drums, heavy stoner fuzz bass, hard riffing psychedelic guitars and teeth grinding Hammond organ topped off with some dreamy piano and brought home by frustrated shivering vocals. Yes! It's everything that must be included on a top heavy prog psych album and collector legend such as this! ( Rockadrome )
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Asoka from Malmö were formed by the remnants of the excellent Taste Of Blues. This background was just detectable, as Asoka headed in a hard rock direction with loud guitar riffs augmented by hammond organ and eager percussion. They also had a decent vocalist, offering hilarious lyrics (in Swedish). Some tracks contained a kind of 'Latin funk' similar to the early Santana and Kvartetten Som Sprängde. Critical listeners will spot a lack of originality but nonetheless acknowledge the musical prowess of the players. Claes Ericsson and Robban Larsson later made two albums with the jazz-rock group Lotus. (Scented Gardens of the Mind )

Tracks:
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01. Psykofoni for ekogitarr och poporkester (2:11)
02. Ataraxia (3:28)
03. Leave Me (3:34)
04. Svensson Blues (3:27)
05. 1975 (3:48)
06. If You Feel (4:25)
07. Tvivlaren (4:37)
08. I'm Trying (To Find a Way to Paradise) (6:15)
09. Psykofoni for ekogitarr och poporkester (reprise) (2:51)

Bonus tracks on CD
10. The Seeker (3:54)
11. At El-Yago 9-3 (1:58)
12. Ohio (5:22)
13. Mama (4:35)
14. Southern Comfort (6:46)
15. Taste Of Blues - I Need Your Love (4:45)
16. Taste Of Blues - Another Kind Of Love (3:52)
17. Take Off Jam (9:10)

Personnel:
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Robban Larsson - guitars
Patrick Erixcon - vocals, bongos
Claes Ericsson - piano, organ Taste Of Blues
Tjobbe Bengtson - bass
Daffy Bengtson - drums

All thanks to original releaser