Ahora Mazda

From the moment I laid eyes on the amazing front cover art work, I new I was going to in for an amazing ride into what it must have been like, in the late 60's, early 70's Amsterdam based, hippy-underground music scene.This relatively short-lived group, consisting of Peter Abbink, (vocals, guitar, piano, jawsharp, cup muted trumpet and organ) Rob van Wageningen, (flutes, vocals, tenor sax, percussion, slide whistle, african thumb piano "kalimba") Tony Schreuder, (bass guitar, percussion) and Winky Abbink, (drums) made free-form experimental psychedelic and progressive rock, that is reminiscent of early Pink Floyd in their Syd Barrett days, and is as wild as it gets!The listener should have an open mind about the sound of vocals sung in perhaps the singer's second language, but I felt it gave this music a real edge, and I've grown to like it. I would recommend this disc to fan's of obscure/unknown world "Psychedelia", and also to people into Jazz-Rock fusion, as this is very talented music on display here.I would offer one word of warning, regarding the 5 bonus tracks, as I feel they are not as strong as the officially released tracks, from 1970, (tracks 1-6) but I feel their inclusion on the disc is welcome, as it shows how the group may have generated their ideas for the more finished tracks.The sound quality is nothing short of incredible, and is a real aural treat, the lyrics are suitably weird and interesting as the song "Spacy Tracy" attests: "She used to walk on the waters, she used to eat from the sun, it was a cold hard winter, when her life begun..."Enjoy!