Loyde, Lobby - Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths of Klimster
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05-AZTEC022
"Lobby Loyde's lost science fiction concept album is found, remastered and released, 30 years after its recording. Let's take a step back to 1976 - Australia's established guitar hero Lobby Loyde is considering what next after rising to the top of Australian charts, worked with the biggest name bands (The Aztecs, the Purple Hearts, etc) while simultaneously getting very sick of Australian media and their obsession with linking his music to the rising violence of 'sharpies' and skinheads. Just before he bails out of Australia and heads to the UK, he decides to extend himself creatively. He writes an epic science fiction novel about battling planets (one's a planet full of hippies, the other a bunch of bloodthirsty warmongers) and a group of all-powerful Timelords who occasionally get cranky and zap entire planets if they don't behave, and then writes a soundtrack to it, with a view to putting it to a filmed version of his book. The manuscript got thrown on a fire in a fit of pique; the movie never got made, and the master tapes almost got thrown out when fan/collector David Lescun rescued them, preserving them until now to be remastered and issued with extensive liner notes from Australian music historian Ian McFarlane and a 2006 interview with Lobby discussing the concept and how it holds up with 30 years' worth of hindsight. It's not quite the Rosetta Stone of Australian rock, but it's damn close. Lobby has been credited as the godfather of the Australian pub rock/guitar sound - the sound of Angus Young, Billy Thorpe, the Angels and Rose Tattoo - and this album marks a creative vision and talent much broader than mere pub thrashouts for boozed punters. This is an awesome, sprawling instrumental album of soaring guitar breaks, moody electronica and Wagner-inspired arrangements that will appeal to any lover of early Pink Floyd or 70s jazz-rock (think Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer)..."-Australian Broadcasting Corp/Jarrod Watt