Bright Side Of The Moon: Brian Auger & the Trinity

Brian Auger & the Trinity - Definitely What!
1968
Soul Jazz - Prog-Rock
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Brian Auger destaco como teclista a principios de los 70, por su feeling con el Hammond B-3. Su disco "Streetnoise" junto a Julie Driscoll, les hizo famosos por su fuerza y por temas como "Indian Rope Man" o "The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In)". Auger ha fusionado con verdadero estilo el jazz con el R&B y el prog-rock y hoy dia sigue en activo, dando soberbios conciertos, sinceros y sin florituras junto a dos de sus hijos, Savannah y Karma, a los q podemos oir en un disco q puse hace tiempo, "Voices Of Other Time". Este es su primer disco de 1968 junto a la Trinity, aun sin Julie Driscoll.

This was Brian Auger's proper solo debut album. It's billed to Brian Auger & the Trinity, but Julie Driscoll, who sang with Brian Auger & the Trinity on the act's most popular and best late-'60s recordings, is not present. Auger dominates the record not just with his organ, but also as composer of most of the original material, and as the vocalist. Auger was a good organ player, but not up to the level of the best British rock electric keyboardists of the 1960s, like Alan Price, Rod Argent, Graham Bond, and Vincent Crane. He's also no more than adequate as a singer and songwriter, and the record is only adequate, sounding like a more progressive-minded Georgie Fame. Auger's principal influences are obvious in the songs he covers by Booker T. & the MG's, Wes Montgomery, and Mose Allison, although there's also an odd version of "A Day in the Life" that is bolstered by an orchestra's worth of horns and strings. He gets into a Roland Kirk vibe on the title track, which is the longest, most ambitious, and not necessarily best cut. The CD reissue on Disconforme has a bonus track, "What You Gonna Do?," of undisclosed origin; it's a standard Brian Auger soul-rock original, taken from a vinyl source by the sound of things, as surface noise can be heard.