Release : Group 1850 - Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth (1968) Artist : Group 1850 Album : Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth (1968) Genre : A Cappella Source : CDDA Label : Universal URL : Date : 00-00-2002 Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new Quality : 188kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo Tracks : 16 Time : 65:42 min Size : 89.22 MB 1 Steel Sings 3:03 2 Little Fly 4:29 3 I Put My Hands On Your Shoulder 13:26 4 You Did It Too Hard 2:12 5 A Point In This Life 5:05 6 Refound 3:05 7 Roborn 3:29 8 I Know (Bonus Track) 3:13 9 I Want More (Bonus Track) 2:05 10 Mother No Head (Bonus Track) 3:28 11 Ever Ever Green (Bonus Track) 3:18 12 Zero (Bonus Track) 3:30 13 Frozen Mind (Bonus Track) 3:41 14 We Love Life (Bonus Track) 4:32 15 Mother No Head (Bonus Track - French Version) 3:30 16 Mother No Head (Bonus Track - Instrumental) 3:36 Group Eighteen Fifty is an interesting, if sometimes exasperating, late-'60s Dutch band who ranks among the most accomplished and original Continental rock acts of the era, though they made little impression in English-speaking territories. Starting as a more or less conventional beat band in the mid-'60s, they had taken a turn for the more psychedelic and bizarre by 1967. Determined to drive into the heart of the psychedelic beast, their songs (performed in English) are quite eclectic for the era, shifting from doom-laden tempos with growling vocals to sunny, utopian passages with breezy harmonies. The group could be roughly labeled as a mixture of the early Mothers of Invention (whom they supported at a Dutch concert in 1967) and Pink Floyd without much of a sense of humor; their songs are intriguing and not without powerful hooks, and the lyrics ambitious (if often inscrutable), but one's attention tends to wander over the course of an album, or even during their lengthier songs. Their late-'60s LPs are highly esteemed by some serious psych/progressive collectors. - By Richie Unterberger Amazon User Review: Originally released in 1968, looks to be the Dutch psych band's first of three albums. To me, it sounded a lot like the first two Pink Floyd's lp's. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. 'Alemo's Trip' is a good find. It's noted as being one of the most accomplished psychedelic works from that era. Couple of the tunes here that impressed me the most were "Little Fly", "You Did It Too Hard", "Refound" and most of this CD reissue's nine bonus tracks I liked as well. Line-up: Peter Sjardin-flute&vocals, Dave Duba and Daniel VanBerger-guitars, Dolf Geldof-bass and Martin Duynhoven-drums. A should-have. - By Mike Reed AMG Album Review: Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth was one of the most ambitious psychedelic albums to emerge from continental Europe in the late '60s. The LP's nominal concept was, like many early such endeavors, obscure, involving something like the journey of Agemo from a paradise-like planet to the more chaotic imperfection of Earth. Musically, the record owes a lot to late-'60s British psychedelia (particularly of the Pink Floyd school), with hints of the onset of progressive rock in its less-conventional passages. Although plenty of melodic shifts, celestial organ, wiggling distorted guitar, harmony vocals, Gregorian chant-like singing, Mothers of Invention-like horns, beatific respites (on "Reborn"), and general freakiness entertainingly convey the exploration of new psychic territory, it ultimately lacks the lyrical and musical cogency of, say, late-'60s Pink Floyd. At times the bold weirdness gets self-indulgent, throwing in phased drum soloing, solemnly intoned spoken female romantic exclamations, and multilingual murmuring. The album was reissued, in its original sequence and its entirety, as part of the Group 1850 CD compilation 1967-1968.