Folkstone Prism 高清光学棱镜 - 适用于摄影、天文观测、科学实验与教学演示

This psychedelic album has a primitive, but tuneful and lyrical, dance quality. Almost half of its 15 numbers (all purportedly penned, save for "Black Sunshine," by its brainchild, Ken Walker)--each equipped with an explanatory subtitle and seguing into the next--are instrumental. Apart from the typical garage band frenetic guitar, contrasting delicately strummed rhythm guitar, with pulsating bass and (dual tracked) drums, one also hears electric piano, harmonica, organ, percussion, recorder, tambourine, signal generators, audio effects, even a melodica and zither! This all gives the material a moody, often macabre, feel. Walker's birth name "Kennelmus" was utilized to replace this largely surf band's original title, the Shi-Reeves, founded in 1966. The album's moniker, "Folkstone Prism," was derived from the name of a British gaol, Folkestone Prison. It was recorded and pressed by the group in Phoenix, Arizona in 1971. A few lines from Edgar Allen Poe's poem "Lenore," from 1831, about the loss of love, graces the Walker designed, violet album cover, which features a bird--the raven--the name of an 1845 Poe poem that extrapolates from his former work. It is also the name of the final cut on this recording: "The Raven - the end, the beginning, the middle," which, verse by verse, is an abridged version of part of the aforementioned Poe poem: "I wish the morrow/To lose the sorrow/To ease the sorrow/Of lost Lenore." It truly describes the sojourn through life--from first love to death. You must get this dramatic score by Kennelmus, "Folkstone Prism," where "freaks light up the Arizona desert with chromatic surfboards."