CRAZY ONE/MIND'S EYE (AS RAMASES & SELKET)

Kimberley Barrington Frost aka Ramases briefly tried to attract a following as a descendent of his namesake pharoah in the mid to late 1960s and bombed so he turned to music as a means to spread a message not at all limited to that practiced in ancient Egypt. But before officially forming the "band" RAMASES he and spouse Selket released a few singles in the late 1960s as RAMASES & SELKAT. Of these, this, the first, is of interest because it represents the artist's only attempt to actually create music with a cultural slant to match their flamboyant outfits. With a complement of percussions, flutes, strings, hypnotic melodies, and a very lo fi standard, I'd argue that, even as the poseurs they may have been, these are among the two most fascinating entries in their catalogue, a divergent route from the no less inappropriate moves of others of that era. Slight edge to "Crazy One" but both make me quite happy.