Song Of A Gypsy – DAMON***

Song Of A Gypsy/Poor Poor Genie/Don’t You Feel Me/Did You Ever/Funky Funky Blues/Do You/Night/I Feel Your Love/Birds Fly So High/Road Of Life

Song Of A Gypsy was the sole album release from the obscure Californian psychedelic singer songwriter Damon. It has been praised for its naiveté, period innocence and impressive guitar playing.

“An album for spiritual cleaning of your soul and mind, with philosophical depth of almost biblical proportions. Perhaps one of the best psychedelic albums ever made, and a quintessence of the love, peace, meditation hippie movement. Meditative and mesmerizing music, psychedelia with strong oriental (Indian) flavour, melancholic and distant singing, 'talking' fuzzy guitar.”

“Really nice gypsy outsider acid folk with fuzz guitars, sitar and other instruments. Recommended.”

“Among the true monster rarities of US psych, this album is deserving of its hype, and among the very best of its genre. Featuring stoned, laid-back type vocals over echoed fuzz-tone guitar and sitar, the album just oozes lysergia. How this artist, who had never previously ventured into the psychedelic arena before, managed to hit the nail squarely on the head on his first time out, is a true wonder.”

“Damon's main drawback is that he finds it difficult to make each song different. You seem to be hearing the same song over and over again. Still, what a great song it is.” “Its not a bad album, but there's nothing especially distinctive or memorable about it. Mellow and nice music but it feels rather dated and the fifth track, Funky Funky Blues, is just horrible.”

“Its ordinary psychedelic rock music, not quite as strange or exotic as some word-ofmouth would imply. There's plenty of searing fuzz guitar, soul-searching, and probing lyrics with a mystical gauze and, frankly, minimal melodic variety throughout the ten tracks, which have a slight Eastern flavour. It's not a mainstream record by any means, but it's not stunningly weird or innovative either.”

“You’d have to really like this genre to enjoy this, but Damon produced a fine collection of hypnotic songs that deserve to be presented to a new hippy generation.”