July 20, 2018 - Swara Samrat - Hippylisation (1993)

I don't know what to tell you about this one...Hippylisation by Swara Samrat. According to the album cover, all instruments are played by Captain Ilor (!) and Swara Samrat, aka Attila Fitzgerald, aka Roland H. Wehner, and it was recorded in "South Germany". I found the album, The Truth About Suzanne, on one of my journeys through the blogosphere and assumed it was some lost 60s artifact, but it's from 1993. Perhaps it has something to do with a so-called Swara Samrat Festival? No idea! But of course I am now reminded of classical Indian composer and violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam, to whom I occasionally (and affectionately) refer as Dr. L. Super Mario Brothers.

Anyhoo, in Hippylisation the singer comes on almost immediately, sounding like a bewildered Cro-Magnon man just emerging from his cave and finding himself in an art appreciation class:

We took a look at the paintings
(something?) little notebook
in the year of the marshoo(?)
we heard the call of the wild

at which point a blast of loud psychedelic guitar hits us in the face. The ramblings of the singer continue into a line about spending a nice summer nearby the lake. The canvas of Rickenbacker bass, drums, and maybe synth takes a backseat to the crazy guitar freakouts.

It's all so strange, like walking into a room in a museum that is kind of dark and ominous, then you notice the giant dinosaur skeleton towering about you. Time to run away.

This is supposedly a photo of Captain Ilor: