Description
Moon Blood is the sole album by the American psychedelic rock band Fraction, released on Angelus Records in 1971. The album was recorded by Frank Kejmar live at Whitney Recording Studios in Glendale, California (a studio used by artists like Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa); with the band producing.
Fraction features Jim Beach on vocals, Bob Meinel and Don Swanson on guitars, Vic Hemme on bass, and Curt Swanson on percussion.
Fraction was a short lived L.A. garage band. In the summer of 1970 we rehearsed in a local warehouse in North Hollywood. A few songs from that period became the ‘Moon Blood’ album. With little finances we took those songs to a studio in Burbank and recorded the album in less than two hours. What you hear is this recording of the band playing together simultaneously. All of these songs were recorded as “one takes”. Old school! Only 200 of the ‘Moon Blood’ albums ever saw the light of day, and most of those are long since gone. [Excerpt from the liner notes of the 1999 CD re-issue]
Psychedelic fire and brimstone doom monster with heavy Doors-ish influence and ferociously guttural screamed lead vocals that rival Jim Morrison. Slow intense lengthy climactic songs (only six of them) that burn with loud grungy guitars, letting up occasionally for psych-drenched hazy dream-scapes, with wah-wah, fuzz, reverb, tremolo all strongly represented. Strange apocalyptic lyrics (virtually indecipherable without the lyric sheet) that are not your typical Christian fare by any means. Considered by many to be the Holy Grail of psych privates, hence the accompanying $2500 Whopper price tag. Cheaper alternatives exist: A11 ‘805 re-issue with a low-tech Xerox-looking band photo (enlarged from the back cover of the original) went in and out of print fairly quickly. A Euro CD with the same cover also exists. The original pressing comes in one of the most killer covers ever conceived: a die-cut jacket with a red filter revealing a moon inner sleeve. In late 1995 a deluxe vinyl limited edition was pressed nearly identical to the original, allowing budget-minded collectors to own a piece of this history in all its full glory. Re-issued on CD again in 1999 with bonus tracks. It don’t get any heavier than this! [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Sanc-Divided” – 3:42
A2. “Come Out Of Her” – 4:50
A3. “Eye Of The Hurricane” – 8:42
Side Two
B1. “Sons Come To Birth” – 5:17
B2. “This Bird (Sky High)” – 8:08
Note: Originally pressed in 200 copies only. Re-issued on CD by Rockaway Records in 1999, featuring three bonus tracks; “Prisms”, “Dawning Light”, and “Intercessor’s Blues”.
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