Description
Let the Cosmos Ring! is an album by the Canadian psychedelic folk-rock project Crosscurrent Community, released in Canada on TBC Recording Limited 1969. Re-issued by Avant Garde Records in the US in 1971. (A follow-up album was recorded but never released.) Featuring a sticker saying Vital Vibrations of Hope, Joy and Peace. Original songs and poems from The Crosscurrent Community.
Interesting experiment here as Presbyterian ministry from Toronto seeks to discuss spiritual questions with people from a variety of backgrounds (including non-Christians) through the medium of music. The end result is sort of a musical equivalent of a rap session, with lyrics that reveal a search for meaning yet also express the Christian response. Don’t let the word “community” scare you off – this isn’t a big massive choral production or anything. There are eleven people listed in the instrumental credits, plus another five providing the vocals. The Avant Garde label certainly lives up to its name on this release with not only rock and folk styles, but also jazz, psychedelia, and bizarre poetry readings (check out the hip «The Wart Where It Was»). Horns are used effectively in parts, though thankfully they’re usually playing second billing to the organ and electric guitar. Psychedelic guitar noodling intermingles with spacey washes of organ on the album’s centerpiece: the thirteen-minute «Genesis», an avant-garde ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’-influenced composition structured around three cosmic spoken passages identified as Fluctuations 1, 2 and 3 (note how they work in the melodies from «Jesus Loves Me» and «Onward Christian Soldiers»). [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th Edition]
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “O’People”
A2. “In All Of These Things, God Speaks”
A3. “Freedom”
A4. “Love”
A5. “Valley Of Recall”
A6. “God Reaches Out”
A7. “The Wart Was Where It Was”
A8. “Loving All In All For Us”
A9. “It Is I You Pass By”
A10. “Love As I Have Loved You”
A11. “Being Human”
A12. “Sing Brothers Sing”
Side Two
B1. “Let The Cosmos Ring”
B2. “Here’s Joy”
B3. “Genesis”
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