Cosmic Michael Cosmic Michael 1969 ,us, groovy acid psych rock

Cosmic Michael - Cosmic Michael 1969 ,us, groovy acid psych rock

Cosmic Michael is a hippie who flipped after the “Wow, I have seen Woodstock” idea. -The world
is a great place now, so let’s boogie woogie blues our lives away.- The simple, happy innocence
sounds like it is being inspired out of almost nothing and made up on the spot (“I’m a child of
Woodstock generation” & "That's because she's my girl..". The way some instruments like
harmonica are recorded much louder than the voice makes the music even better, and a funny, and
a somewhat enjoyable, trippy-hippie-on-the-background experience. With all simplicity of
inspiration, the first couple tracks of the recording in this way sounds pretty “real”, but
when the guy keeps on playing covers he also shows something of his banality and a lack of
enough ideas to maintain its loner simple originality throughout the whole album.This was his
second album.

Another description (by Ron Moore):
"NYC idiosyncratic piano guitar basement psych rock jamming
realness. The followup is stoned acoustic folk psych and was done in Los Angeles. It's not as
jawdropping as the debut but "Woodstock Nation" is hilarious."

and some info by forcedexposure.com:
"'I am a child of Woodstock nation, I've come a long way from my home...' So sings the one and
only Cosmic Michael, on this the opening track of his second album released by the Bliss label
in 1970. An album now high on serious psych collector wants lists too... Cosmic Michael. Well,
some regard him as a 'Godhead,' the ultimate spiritual hippy, with songs of love, freedom &
peace, all delivered with just piano, vocals and kazoo...A true guru... But, what of the music?
I guess these days you'd call it loner psych, but back then the term 'freak rock' might have
been applied to such a release. After his eponymous, and equally enigmatic debut album released
a year earlier, he'd witnessed the Woodstock festival, absorbed the vibe, and relocated to Los
Angeles where he then recorded After a While, seemingly quite quickly...'I've seen The Who, and
Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane they nearly blew my mind....' The nine tracks on After a
While are stoned '60s DIY rock 'n'roll. You can call it lo-fi or home made, but the message
remains: Cosmic Michael preaches love and freedom, and he's a mean boogie-woogie player too.
The songs run one after the other, as if part of one spontaneous recording -- the moment one
ends, he's into the next, and so on. After a While is of its time, a snapshot of innocence when
it was believed music could change the world, and maybe it will yet."


Tracks

1. Now That You've Found It - 0:00
2. Salty Jam - 3:56
3. Theme - 7:57
4. Too Much - 11:38
5. River City - 14:23
6. People's Fair - 16:30
7. Mother Earth - 19:00
8. The Heavy Boogie - 25:36