Banchee — Banchee 1969 (USA, Heavy Psychedelic Rock)

Two-album rock band from Long Island, New Jersey. Banshee - a woman from Shea - a figure of Irish folklore, a woman who, according to legend, is near the house of a person doomed to death and with her characteristic groans and sobs announces that the hour of his death is near. The enchanted forest of Arthurian legend was inhabited by lovely banshee fairies. One of them, named "The Hard-hearted Lady", the temptress sorceress described by the English romantic poet John Keats, was a banshee who lured mortal knights-errant into reckless passion, and then left them, deprived of the will to live, to roam the hills "in gloomy loneliness and without meaning." The self-titled debut album "Banchee" was recorded in 1969. The group, like the rest of the East Coast of the United States of that time, developed under the influence of a powerful wave of psychedelic rock, which at that time covered not only the States, but the whole world. It was the psychedelic classics, in the style of "The Grateful Dead" and "Jefferson Airplane", that had a decisive influence on the sound and manner of "Banchee". Not without the influence of British beat groups of the first half of the 1960s. Therefore, clean and rhythmic (in fact, beat) parts in the songs of "Banchee" alternate with long psychedelic "drinks", signature polyphony and layering of sounds.

Tracks:
01. The Night Is Calling — 3:26
02. Train Of Life — 3:14
03. As Me Thinks — 3:04
04. Follow A Dream — 4:18
05. Beautifully Day — 5:06
06. Evolmia — 3:16
07. I Just Don’t Know — 3:15
08. Hands Of A Clock — 4:10
09. Tom’s Island — 8:37

Personnel:
Jose «Joey» Miguel DeJesus — vocals, rhythm guitar
Peter Alongi — vocals, lead guitar
Michael Marino — bass, vocals
Victor DiGilio — drums, vocals
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Johnny Pacheco — congas (04)
Ralph V. Affoumado — strings and horns conductor (01-09)
Stephen Schlaks, Warren Schatz — producers