Issue No. 2

MagnaPhone Lost Classics

Indian Summer- Indian Summer (Akarma) Birmingham, England's (yep birthplace of Black Sabbath) Indian Summer was signed to RCA in 1971 in a sweep to replicate the monster success of the Sabbath, Indian Summer were chosen for their location and vague pagan references. They were touted as some sort of new Sabbath, but truthfully they were a different animal altogether. Combining folk melodies and harmonies, and soulful keyboards and Miles-style guitar solos, they were more of a darker Fairport Convention than anything. It's odd they never caught on, because their stuff isn't really that different and in many ways better than early Uriah Heep and Gentle Giant. This is a MagnaMust. Bram Stoker-Heavy Rock Spectacular (Akarma) Here we find England's Bram Stoker. Or do we? Nobody knows anything about Bram Stoker, other than that they were from England, were on Windmill records in 1972, and recorded this record. It's a shame, because this is a fun record. Full of medieval style keyboards, Hawkwind-stylespace-explorations,and Steppenwolf boogie rock, I could see these guys opening for the Allman Brothers or Sabbath, and listening to them out in a field with thousands of other longhaired denim clad rockers. Wish I could find out more.