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01. ATHANOR - Graveyard
02. ATHANOR - Inner Space
03. ATHANOR - Urizen (Your Reason)
04. ATHANOR - I Don't Mind
05. ATHANOR - Habits
06. ATHANOR - Read Me
07. ATHANOR - Rock Me, Roll Me
08. ATHANOR - Hidden Monsters
09. ATHANOR - Memory (Don't Fail Me)
10. ATHANOR - Wonder Why I'm Sick
11. ATHANOR - Like a River Flows
12. ATHANOR - Inner Space (Previously Unreleased Mix)
ARTIST
TITLE
Flashback
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
GUESS 046CD GUESS 046CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/11/2013

Chicago, early '70s. Greg Herriges is obsessed with Lennon, 12-string guitars, and far-out psychedelic sounds. Rick Vittenson is a Beach Boys-Hollies-Who fanatic who writes for Crawdaddy! magazine. Both had previously played in several garage college bands during the '60s. Combining their mutual love for '60s music, Athanor was born. With the help of top studio musicians, they recorded and self-released three 45s between 1973 and 1975 (the first one produced by Mark Breyer, with whom Rick had played in pre-Skooshny band Brevity) which are now highly sought-after by fans of obscure psychedelic pop. All of them are featured here in stellar sound taken from the master tapes along with previously-unreleased studio tracks and superb-sounding home demos (1973-1981), plus a new song recorded in 2006 in the same vein as their vintage recordings. Athanor's music features impressive songwriting and musicianship, a collision of Beatlesque harmony vocals, Rickenbacker and Guild 12-string guitars, occasional fuzz-wah leads, Fender Rhodes, and studio effects. Psychedelic proto power-pop highly recommended to anyone into Lazy Smoke, Badfinger, Only Ones, Emitt Rhodes, Rockin' Horse, or Creme Soda. Remastered sound from the original master tapes, booklet with rare pictures and liner notes by Mark Breyer from cult psych power-pop band, Skooshny.