BIG JIM SULLIVAN

Sitar Beat

EU import Compact Disc (CD) + 6 bonus tracks. RPM Records 242. Reissue. CASE & INSERTS: VG++. DISC: VG++ a few scuffs on disc that do not affect play.

BIG JIM SULLIVAN (sitar) with the cream of London's studio musicians featuring John Paul Jones, Joe Moretti and others, and guitars by then session players JOHN McLAUGHLIN (on three Sullivan originals) and JIMMY PAGE (on "Pageing Sullivan").

Sitar beat is a uncanny but wonderful fusion of Eastern and Western music on one album. As you might have expected Big Jim Sullivan traded in his customary guitar for the sitar on this album. Sitar Beat is a great mix of odes and originals with songs like "She's Leaving Home", "A Whiter Shade of Pale", "Sunshine Superman" and "Within You Without You".

The 2002 RPM CD reissue adds not only lengthy historical liner notes but also six cuts from music library discs on the De Wolfe label, four from the 1966 LP The Wild One and the other two from 1967's Sounds of India. Though these were only produced as sources of incidental music for TV and movies. The quartet of tunes from The Wild One contains some pretty dynamite Swinging London jazz blues organ grooves, particularly "Pageing Sullivan," with JIMMY PAGE also on guitar; the two numbers from Sounds of India are relatively straightforward Indian sitar arrangements.

The entire album is a wonderful excursion into the sitar raga-like Eastern music while not letting go of Western lite-rock ideals.

1		She's Leaving Home
2		Sunshine Superman
3		A Whiter Shade Of Pale
4		LTTS
5		The Koan
6		Tallyman
7		The Sitar And The Rose
8		Translove Airways (Fat Angel)
9		Within You Without You
10		Flower Power
11		BONUS TRACKS: Pageing Sullivan
12		Indian Dance No.2
13		The Wild One
14		Romantic Scene No.1
15		Pop Spot
16		Viva La Tamla Motown

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