Knight Of The Blue Communion - Peter Ivers Band

yesterday evening, was going through the albums list in my ipod, looking for something new to listen to, when i came across 'knight of the blue communion', wanting to check out whoz the artist, i went ahead. And the 1st note of the 1st track got me hooked. The last time i remember that happening was when i first listened to 'White Rabbit'. Incidentally both the songs are carried by some tremendous female vocals.

So, after listening to the entire album, couldn't wait to find out more about this brilliant band. But unfortunately google doesn't give much information. Looks like this was one of those brilliant one-off works, that happened by coming together of some amazing people, and it just clicked. While googling i found out that a certain 'Asha puthli' sang a couple of songs for this band. Imagine a famous singer with my name, well almost... :D Anyways the female vocalist i was talking about was not her, though even she is also brilliant, its 'Yolande Bavan', she is just freaking brilliant. Listen to 'scratch cat fever' or any other song in the album.

As far as the album, there is no comparable. It reminds me of a fair...all eccentric, wonderful, weird stuff coming together to make one heady experience. Blues,rock,psychedelia,classical,jazz,world music....it has everything. All i can say is listening to this album, is a trip unlike any other.