The Crazy World of Arthur Brown set for 2-disc Deluxe Edition
Good news for anybody taken by the psychedelic stylings and off-the-wall showmanship of mad-as-a-shrews-hatbox Arthur Brown, as February 22nd 2010 sees the release of a 2-disc deluxe edition of 1968’s self-titled The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
Yes, the good people at Esoteric have given the one and only album by this iconic, psycho-delic rock band the royal treatment, delivering a remastered version of the original album and a host of extras, such as alternate mixes, a BBC session from 1968 and rare single tracks, including the wonderfully anarchic piss-take of the peace and love movement, ‘Give Him a Flower’ – “Don’t ‘it ‘im wiv a bottle, Give him a flower”
Of course, the original firestarter, Arthur Brown, would go on to record multiple solo albums and as part of psychedelic prog-rockers Kingdom Come, but nothing could quite touch this demented shard of late 60s Amicus-inspired mayhem, produced by The Who’s Pete Townshend.
Also promised is some lavish packaging and an extensively illustrated booklet, which one can only hope is a lickable as it sounds.
While on the subject of both the psychedelic and the certifiable, the same day also sees the reissue of Glass Top Coffin by Ramases.
The second album by the self-professed reincarnation of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramases, and his wife Selket, came out in 1975, a follow-up to 1971’s Space Hymns, which featured a reworking of their 1968 psych classic ‘Crazy One’.
A progressive rock concept album of an intergalactic bent – featuring the Royal Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras – this will be the first time the album has appeared on remastered CD. Ramases (Michael Raphael) committed suicide three years after Glass Top Coffin was completed.
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
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