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Artist: Rydgren, Brother John
Title: Silhouette Segments / Cantata For New Life / Worlds Of Youth
Format: CD
Label: OMNI RECORDING CORP.
Catalog Number:168
Barcode:725543916426 itemnumber=1000112620
Price: $25.98  (All prices include domestic shipping.)
Genre: ALTERNATIVE ROCK/PUNK
Release Date: 12/18/2012
Availability: In Stock
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(2-CD set) At the very zenith of Psychedelia and Christianity stands the imposing figure of Brother John Rydgren. An ordained pastor of the American Lutheran Church, Rydgren laid out a heady trip of lysergic spiritual philosophy. Sincere, profound and yet deeply playful, Brother John’s mesmeric baritone waxed poetic about the big questions – Love, Sex, Death, War and Drugs (and God's place in all this) – over a backbeat of fuzz guitars, sitars, avant choirs and go-go drums. From 1966 onwards Brother John broadcast his widely syndicated radio show “Silhouette” across the U.S.A (and Vietnam), speaking directly to the Hippies, Heads and Jesus-Freaks in an engaging flower-power-patter. His incredibly rare LPs “Silhouette Segments” (1968), “Cantata For New Life” (1967) and “Worlds Of Youth” (1966) were originally distributed only to radio stations and church groups. All are officially reissued here (in full) for the very first time. Remastered with copious extra tracks, exclusive liner notes and extremely rare photos, here at last is the true Gospel of Brother John Rydgren. •72 mind-blowing tracks! All original recordings. •Features the magnificent 28 minute epic “Cantata For New Life” – a psychedelic psycho-spiritual mass for choir, fuzz guitar, rock drums and Brother John! •24 page full colour booklet with exclusive scholarly liner notes, rare photos and ephemera. •For further background info: www.djfood.org/djfood/brother-john-rydgren CD1: ‘Silhouette Segments’ 2LP (plus ‘They Say’ LP) CD2: ‘Cantata For New Life’ LP plus ‘Worlds Of Youth’ LP (and extra tracks)

Track Listing
Disc 1:

 1. 
Music To Watch Girls By

 2. 
Personality Doll Of The Week

 3. 
Mercy Mercy Mercy

 4. 
Hippie Version Of The 23rd Psalm

 5. 
Rinky Dink

 6. 
An Offering Of Music

 7. 
Disadvantages Of Life

 8. 
Hippie Version Of Creation

 9. 
Search It Out

10. 
Transistor Father

11. 
Plea Of A Lonely Girl

12. 
To Sir With Love

13. 
The Happening

14. 
Groovin On A Saturday Night

15. 
Dark Side Of The Flower

16. 
Dedicated To The One I Love

17. 
Christmas Montage

18. 
A Christmas Reflection

19. 
Portrait Of Christ

20. 
Sweet Home

21. 
The Lord Is My Shepherd

22. 
The Oil Painting

23. 
The Air Terminal

24. 
Butterfly

25. 
Here Lies The Church

26. 
Move Out In Style

27. 
A Simple Stroll

28. 
The Noise

29. 
Great To Build Something

30. 
The Disadvantages

31. 
A Beautiful Girl

32. 
They Say (Cuts 1-20)


Disc 2:

 1. 
Introduction

 2. 
Cantata For New Life

 3. 
Epilog

 4. 
News

 5. 
Forgiveness

 6. 
AWOLS Of Life

 7. 
Pictures

 8. 
Rhythm

 9. 
New Songs

10. 
Computers

11. 
Baptism

12. 
Martyrs

13. 
Further Segments

14. 
Catechism



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