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Victoria - Victoria (1971)

Track listing:
  1. Peace 2:45
  2. Cumberland 4:41
  3. Gevaro 4:11
  4. Ride A Rainbow 2:51
  5. Never Knew Blues 4:58
  6. Down To The Park 2:57
  7. Village Of Etaf 12:24
  8. Core Of The Apple 8:09
  9. Victoria-09-Mister Let Me Go (Bonus Acetate)-Victoria
  10. Johny & Lisa (Bonus Acetate) 3:02
  11. Peace (Bonus Acetate) 2:53
  12. Cumberland (Bonus Acetate) 2:51
  13. Victoria-13-Child Of Princess (Bonus Real-To-Real Track)-Victoria
  14. Sundance (Bonus Real-To-Real Track) 1:46
  15. Victoria-15-Wheels (Bonus Real-To-Real Track)-Victoria

Notes

Locally New Jersey demo release (200 made), beyond rare fantastic concept psych beauty, maybe 5 or 6 known copies. 3 girls 1 guy. They tried to get attention from big labels but this never happend. They wanted him to sound like Blood Sweat & Tears. But this was not Greg's idea of music. The music has everything you need, like a wild version of early Moby Grape combined with New Dawn and C.A. Quintet, sometimes dreamy sometimes totally wild underground-psych, with female vocals and splattering leads, Titanic horns & destorted guitars. Sweet tunes turn into dark psychpower. TOTALLY STONED!!

Super rare US psych concept album that has a Neighbr'hood Childr'n feel. This psych beauty, sometimes dreamy sometimes totally wild has female vocals, titanic horns & distorted guitars. Sweet tunes turn into dark psych-power. Greg Ruban, the composer and front-man of Victoria recorded this album just before he had to go to Vietnam. When he returned from War, obviously mentally fucked, he took his unreleased album on a 3 month trip to Europe on a motorbike to promote it, but unfortunately that did not work out at all. The album was unreleased until only a few years ago.…