Available on CD for the first time, this concept album (originally released by Elektra in 1967) matched psychedelic mood music with spoken prose and all manner of percussive, exotic and electronic instrumentation. Divided into 12 separate tracks, one for each astrological sign, this "celestial counterpoint with words and music" (as the subtitle boasted) "must be played in the dark" (as the back sleeve instructed in capital purple letters). Its spacey yet tight groove could have fit the tracks into the soundtrack of 1966 Sunset Strip documentaries but, in other respects, the album was futuristic, embellished by some of the first Moog synthesizer ever heard on a commercial recording, an assortment of exotic percussive instruments and sitar. The arrangements were further decorated by haunting harpsichord and organ, along with standard mid-1960s Los Angeles rock guitar licks. New detailed liner notes by '60s music historian Richie Unterberger.