Music Emporium - Music Emporium (1969) [2001]

Artist: Music Emporium
Title Of Album Music Emporium
Year Of Release: 1969/2001
Label (Catalog#) : Sundazed Music [SC 6166]
Country: Canada
Genre: Psych Prog Rock
Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:46:21
Total Size: 307mb(+3%)

AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger
The Music Emporium's sole release is a fair psychedelic obscurity, best when it goes heaviest on the dreamy melodic elements and Carolyn Lee does the singing. "Velvet Sunsets" and "Gentle Thursday," for instance, sound a bit like a garage version of a mixture of the Jefferson Airplane and the United States of America. The more upbeat items, on which Music Emporium leader Casey Cosby takes on the lead vocals, are lumpier, more awkward late-1960s hard rock/psychedelic efforts. Originally a super-rare pressing of just 300, it's been reissued more than once for collectors, and those iterations are much easier to find than the rare original. The best of the reissues, by far, is the 2001 edition on Sundazed, which is taken from the master tape, and includes a detailed history of this hitherto mysterious band. It also adds five previously unissued bonus tracks, although these are just instrumental versions of five of the ten songs on the original LP.

Tracklist
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1. Nam Myo Renge Kyo (W. Casey Cosby, T. Wade) - 2:37
2. Velvet Sunsets (W. Casey Cosby, T. Wade) - 2:35
3. Prelude (W. Casey Cosby) - 2:07
4. Catatonic Variations (W. Casey Cosby) - 1:58
5. Times Like This (M. Bulian) - 2:00
6. Gentle Thursday (W. Casey Cosby, T. Wade) - 3:46
7. Winds Have Changed (W. Casey Cosby, T. Wade) - 2:12
8. Cage (W. Casey Cosby) - 5:09
9. Sun Never Shines (D. Padwin) - 4:01
10. Day Of Wrath (W. Casey Cosby) - 3:25
11. Nam Myo Renge Kyo (W. Casey Cosby, T. Wade) - 2:41
12. Velvet Sunsets (W. Casey Cosby, T. Wade) - 3:08
13. Winds Have Changed (W. Casey Cosby, T. Wade) - 2:14
14. Sun Never Shines (D. Padwin) - 4:04
15. Gentle Thursday (W. Casey Cosby, T. Wade) - 4:17

Personnel:
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Bill "Casey" Cosby - Vocals, Keyboards
Dave Padwin - Guitar
Carolyn Lee - Bass, Background Vocals
Dora Wahl - Drums

All thanks to original releaser