 Anthology of the Continental Europe rock scene at its late 60s/early 70s zenith.
Format: CD / Cat No: CRSEG3BOX160 / PRE-ORDER Release Date: 16/01/2026
Track Listing: CD 1 - Beginning To Fly: 1. Q 65 So High I've Been, So Down I Must Fall / 2. The Ones Lady Greengrass / 3. Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano Susan Song / 4. Groep 1850 Mother No- Head / 5. Blues Section Answer To Life / 6. Dragonfly Celestial Empire / 7. Hurdy Gurdy Tick Tock Man / 8. Equipe 84 - Per Un Attimo Di Tempo / 9. The Blackbirds She / 10. Tages Halcyon Days / 11. The Outsiders Daddy Died On Saturday / 12. Sandy Coast Capital Punishment (Death By Hanging) / 13. The Rippers Night At The Lagoon / 14. Ekseption Sabre Dance / 15. The Rattles The Witch / 16. Beefeaters Now I Know / 17. Alan Jack Civilization What You're Gonna Say / 18. Brainbox Dark Rose / 19. Shocking Blue Love Buzz / 20. Gong Change The World (aka Rational Anthem) / 21. Tangerine Dream Asche Zu Asche (Ashes To Ashes) / 22. Ame Son Je Veux Juste Dire
CD 2 - Throwing Snowballs At The Sun: 1. Supersister She Was Naked / 2. Oriental Sunshine Across Your Life / 3. Guru Guru Next Time See You At The Dalai Lama / 4. Pacific Sound The Drug Just Told Me / 5. Evolution - 21st Century Schizoid Man / 6. Circus 2000 I Am The Witch / 7. Wigwam Tombstone Valentine / 8. Culpeper's Orchard Mountain Music Part One / 9. Blue Beard Losing You / 10. Siloah Krishna's Golden Dope Shop / 11. Cur Magique Mademoiselle Marie / 12. Alice Je Voudrais Habiter Le Soleil / 13. Tasavallan Presidentti Weather Brightly / 14. Pan & Regaliz I Can Fly / 15. Osanna L'Uomo / 16. Brainticket - Watchin' You / 17. Le Orme Era Inverno / 18. Burnin Red Ivanhoe All About All / 19. Blast Furnace Long Distance
CD 3 - Speeding Into A New Sunrise: 1. Inter-Groupie Psychotherapeutic Elastic Band Floating / 2. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso R.I.P. (Requiescant In Pace) / 3. Focus Sylvia / 4. Aunt Mary Rosalind / 5. Necronomicon In Memoriam / 6. Il Balletto Di Bronzo Primo Incontro / 7. Faust It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl / 8. Analogy Analogy / 9. Day Of Phoenix Zombie / 10. Svanfriπur What's Hidden There? / 11. After Shave Amsterdam In My Living Room / 12. Popol Vuh Abschied / 13. Magma Kobaia Ist De Hundin / 14. P. F. M. (Premiata Forneria Marconi) - Celebration / 15. Acqua Fragile Education Story / 16. Golden Earring Radar Love
More information: While rock bands outside of Britain and America were largely ignored at the time by most fans, a huge amount of outstanding, even ground-breaking music was being made in Continental Europe during the psychedelic/progressive rock heyday.
Championed by the ever-curious John Peel, the likes of Faust, Tangerine Dream and Magma made music that stood proudly outside the UK/US hegemony, while a number of the Continent's more traditional rock bands The Rattles, Shocking Blue, Focus, Golden Earring - enjoyed sizeable international hit singles.
So High I've Been anthologises the European underground/hippie scene during this fertile period, featuring all of the above names as well as other major players (Wigwam, Ekseption, Culpeper's Orchard, etc) and key tracks from such record collector favourites as Pacific Sound, After Shave, Necronomicon and Oriental Sound.
Housed in a clamshell box with a 48-page booklet chronicling the bands, So High I've Been is a fascinating window on a scene that is still less widely lauded than it should be.
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