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  • Audio CD (4 Mar 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Collector's Choice
  • ASIN: B0000631PB
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Listen10. How Many Nights Have Passed (LP Version) 2:24£0.79
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5.0 out of 5 stars Elektra 60's Psychedelic Classic, 30 Jan 2003
Clear Light were one of several groups signed by Elektra in 1966. They had started life as The Garnersfield Sanitarium, before changing their name to The Brain Train under the guidance of L A hipster Bud Mathis, they had one single released, 'Me'/'Black Roses' on the Titan label in late 1967 after they had metamorphosed into Clear Light. Paul Rothchild teamed them up with Cliff de Young as vocalist and they recorded the eponymous album during summer 1967.

A fantastic melange of folk rock and psychedelia, it can be seen as a missing link between their Elektra peers, Love and The Doors (Bassist Doug Lubahn provided occasional bass duties for The Doors first three albums), who unfortunately they were overshadowed by, having their album release sandwiched between Forever Changes and Strange Days in December 1967.

A re-working of 'Black Roses' starts off a clutch of upfront rockers, enhanced by the unique double drums of Dallas Taylor and Michael Ney, which includes 'Sand' and the manic 'The Street Singer' which work well against the more intricate psychedelia of numbers such as 'A Child's Smile' and 'They who Have Nothing'.

The highlight of the set for me is 'Night Sounds Loud', a rip roaring sensory overload laden with surreal lyrical imagery and instrumentation that merge to form textures of sound that soar and glide. The CD comes with an extra track - 'She's Ready To be Free' - originally from the sountrack to The President's Analyst, a suberb James Coburn movie in which Clear Light also appear. No more releases were forthcoming, although Clear Light did spend some time in the studio with Danny Kortchmar as additional guitarist.

Some members can be heard on the sountrack to the Monkees film Head, providing the instrumentation to 'The Porpoise Song', the most psychedelic track in the entire Monkees catalogue. If you love Love and adore The Doors, then Clear Light will transport you to new realms of delight.

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars West Coast Psychedelic Classic, 7 Feb 2003
One of the most psychedelic albums to emerge from the heady days of 1967, Clear Light are almost a cross between their Elektra label mates, Love and The Doors. Managing to be delicate and ethereal one moment, and portentious and doom-laden the next, this album is a worthy addition to any West Coast psychedelic collection.
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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A reasonable offering, with a couple of TRUE GEMS!, 8 Oct 2005
In short, the bulk of the music here is average early pop-rock, though just a couple of the tracks MORE than make up for the other filler material, which in any event is all ok or better.

The great sounds here: 'A Child's Smile' (gentle mellow hippyesque), and 'Street Singer' ("my eyes are sewn open, unable to close, and I'm stung by the breeze that my memory blows, and the breeze fans the fire that began as a spark; the blind old street singer sings songs in the dark - but where are the songs of the beauty?" - absolutely!), 'Night Sounds loud' and 'Mr Blue' - all superbly sinister - with the latter being strongly suggestive of the Matrix idea (so this is where it all began!), with other good tracks being 'Sand', 'Think Again', 'They Who Have Nothing', and 'How Many Days Have Passed'. These are pleasant tracks, variously poppy, folk-rock type arrangements, hippy and mellow, and easy on the ears. I have heard comparisons to the Doors made, though I guess any final rating is more down to personal taste - art, after all, IS the attrition between private and public.

Well worth buying, if only for 'Street Singer', 'Mr Blue', 'A Child's Smile', and 'Night Sounds Loud'.

Pure psychedelic fans may also wish to try the following: Cyrus Faryar (Cosmic Sounds - far out lysergic lyric presentation), Steve Morgen (now that's got some fuzz!), Kaleidoscope (UK band rather than the US one of the same name), Silver Apples (some gr8 xperimentl), Twink (BEST psychedelia ever!), Pink Floyd (early stuff especially - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Ummagumma, & almost any of Syd Barret's solo stuff), Beatles (you know - Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt. Peppers, White Album), The United States Of America (reissue recently available on Amazon), Traffic (Mr Fantasy, & Traffic), Beach Boys (Smiley Smile), The End (Introspection), or Donovan, Hawkwind... etc. etc.

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