Along with Captain Beefheart’s 'Trout Mask Replica', Tea and Symphony’s 'Joe
Sago', Wild Man Fischer’s 'An evening With Wild Man Fischer' and the GTO’s
'Permanent Damage' lie many unsung and criminally ignored masterpieces.
One such is Orchestra Luna’s eponymous debut.
Described by one critic on its 1975 release on Epic as 'the soundtrack to a
musical that never took place', Orchestra Luna is the first and only album
by this innovative Boston based music/theatre outfit, whose modus operandi
was a three-pronged one male/two female vocal attack with musical backing
and spoken word contributions.
Mixing poetry and music was commonplace then and practised by The Liverpool
Scene, Occasional Word and Hawkwind with the late Bob Calvert. However,
nobody quite achieved the fine balance of narration and music as Peter
Barrett did with Orchestra Luna which worked into its repertoire an element
of showbiz that harked back to Vaudeville and the glory days of early
Hollywood musicals.
ORCHESTRA LUNA
TRACK
LISTING:
1. Were You Dancin' On Paper 2. Miss
Pamela 3. Little Sam 4. Heart 5. Love Is Not Enough 6. Boy Scouts 7. Fay
Wray 8. But One 9. Doris Dreams
