The Open Window - US 1969

Great album from 1969, I think.  It's avant proggish, psyche,classicalish, chamber rock,  jazz and raga elements and is quite eclectic and may be best suited to Crossover or Eclectic, or maybe Psyche.  It is rather Proto-Proggish, but I think it quite progressive (does help to listen to the whole album rather than concentrate on individual tracks and I haven't put these youtube tracks in order).  I'm not sure about placement, and hope to get some feedback.













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Released	Title	Cat#	Reviews	Ratings	Chart [?]	Overall
1969	Appears on: Oh! Calcutta! [Original Off-Broadway Cast] [Various Artists]	2 issues	1	3		2.96	rate
1969	The Open Window	2 issues	4	16		3.29	rate
1980	Three Views from "The Open Window"	First Edition Records LS-691	1				rate

Released	Title	Cat#	Reviews	Ratings	Chart [?]	Overall
1970	Oh! Calcutta!	UP 35174					rate

Hope people enjoy it.

EDIT:

I have the album, out of print, and can pass to any team if interested.

Here's some more music off the album since I didn't see it come up on youtube before.









Edited by Logan - February 07 2012 at 12:05

Doesn't the album art alone warrant inclusion?

My word, there is some truly celestial music in there.  I wouldn't expect anything less from a Greg suggestion, though (especially since he made me aware of Alice Coltrane's music).

This doesn't sound "proto" to me, but fully progressive music. In my opinion it also fits the scheme of progressive rock, it's clearly not jazz or modern classical, but part of the pop-rock culture. The problem is how to assign it to our structure of sub-genres - now that's also something to expect from a suggestion by Greg. Well, IMO this is avantgarde tamed so much that it can reasonably be called "eclecticism". I'd suggest them to Eclectic, how does that sound to you guys?

To pin it down a bit more, the music reminds me of:
- Herbie's keyboard-lead experimental stuff
- Vangelis' early experimental albums
- the vocals are very Pink Floyd-esque
- there's a lot of Space rock / kosmiche influence I can hear in there

The Eclectic Team has approved The Open Window.  If anyone wishes to help with the bio, let me know.

Logan wrote: Thanks. Good news, before I edited my first post after a day as I started to doubt myself more, I suggested it particularly for Eclectic, so glad it got accepted. I would like to take care of the addition, and plan to start on that tomorrow.  I've been remiss that way when it's come to a number of my suggestions. And thanks to Alex for such encouraging words and for bringing it to the Eclectic team's attention.