Fire and Ice, Ltd. - The Happening

Fire and Ice, Ltd. - The Happening

LP released sometime during the late 1960s

This is one of my favorite LPs from the 60s. To me this album is what the 60s are about. I may go as far to place this in my top 20 albums of the 60s. Yes, I would. You want to know why. Here's why:

It's happening now.
Spontaneously, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and many other parts of the nation young musicians are assembling to create for themselves and their friends a new kind of sound. As Lewis Carroll's Alice stepped through the drawing room mirror into a world of rich imagining, so these gifted young experimentalists are determinedly breaking through the limitations of the old familiar forms - rock, and jazz, and folk, and blues, et cetera - freeing themselves to create a sound that encompasses all the as-yet- unexplored possibilities of music.
These get-togethers are called musical happenings. The sounds they produce are called, by some, spontaneous music, and by others, free form music. Some also call it "mind-manifesting music." And as one of the performers in this album half-humorously stated, it might with equal aptness and equal imprecision be called "ethnic psychedelic Afro-Cuban folk rock." It is an exhilarating, exciting, galvanizing symphony of musical moods, an exploration into a kind of completely unchained sound that has never happened before.
But it's happening now!

Indeed it is (or was). The liner notes with equal aptness and equal precision describe what is in store for the listener of this album. Fire and Ice, Ltd., led by a couple of "brilliant young men of many talents" Tony Scott and Paris Sheppard, have created fun spontaneous (although dated) music. This is in my top 5 all-time favorite thrift store finds.

Credits:

Tony Scott - organ, piano
Paris Sheppard - vocals, flute
John Green - bass
Joseph Connoly - guitar
Roy Durkee - drums
Barbara Jackson - Arabian drums
Dorothy Erwin, Daniel Westen and Mildred Richard - vocals

Lawrence Schiller - producer


Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side 1

1. I Just Thought of the Moon {6:08}

2. The House of Saturn {7:05}

3. Star In Flight {2:57}

Side 2

1. Summertime {5:54}

2. The Happening {9:33}