サイケ界随一のトランペッターKEN ERWIN率いるミネアポリス産コンセプチャル・アシッド・サイケ・モンスターC.A. QUINTET。69年唯一作にしてUSサイケを語る上で絶対に外せない名盤『TRIP THRU HELL』がSUNDAZEDよりCD再発!
不気味なムード、荒涼としたオルガン、フランジャイズ・ドラム、フェイズ・シフト&デュアル・ファズ・ギター。ミックスに多大な時間を費やし、スタジオ・ギミックを酷使した地獄のサウンドトラックが如き本作は、USサイケデリア界異端の極致と言えます!
発売・販売元 提供資料(2023/03/14)
There's not much to compare this album to, even in the weird musical climate of 1968 -- there are echoes of Country Joe & The Fish and the Doors, perhaps, in the mysterioso organ and morbid imagery. Not that Ken Erwin was in the same league as Jim Morrison, or even Country Joe, as a songwriter. But (with the exception of the brassy good-time cut "Underground Music"), psychedelia was very rarely this dementedly gloomy. Occasional pealing bells and curdling screams (to say nothing of the Boschlike cover art) add to the foggy underworld menace. Reissued without authorization in Europe in the 1980s, the 1995 domestic CD is a first-class job: the 12 bonus cuts gather some rare non-LP singles, alternate takes, and previously unreleased songs, and the liner notes feature extensive interviews with Ken Erwin and engineer Steve Longman. ~ Richie Unterberger
Rovi