a r t i s t : Tully
t i t l e : Sea of Joy
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : EM (EM1068CD)
g e n r e : Soundtrack
r l s. d a t e : Jul/2007
t r a c k s : 12
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 64,3 MB
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Originally issued in 1972
Cardboard special CD case with booklet
English/Japanese texts
A lot of rare photos/lyrics
Original jkt cover art
FEATURED ON BOOKLET;
Liner notes written by Paul Witzig, original members of Tully
& Stephen McParland
First time re-issue & on CD of the music for the classic
Australian surf movie filmed by Paul Witzig in 1970, starring
Wayne Lynce, Nat Young and Ted Spencer. Filmd in Australia,
Mauritius, south Africa, Oahu and Kauai. The music was all
written & performed by a psychedelic rock acid folk outfit
called TULLY featuring Richard Lockwood and Michael Carlos.
Tully, the band that recorded Sea of Joy, was the precocious
child of two very different creatures, Tully the First (wild
psychdelic & spiritual progressive rock) and Extradition
(ethernal acid folk sounds, later survived the album "HUSH").
They played together once then became Tully the Second. The
music they played for the soundtarck was engrossing and
particularly enchanting (and still is!). You may find there
will be nothing to compare such a recording with other surf
soundtracks or surfing related music in whole surf music
history (even now). Acid-deep-psyche-progressive-rock-folk
surf on in early 1970s!
Some tracks were heard on the movie, but actually many of them
are different version and arrangent (or feeling like so) for
this long player, its rightly much higher audiolable quality
than we hear on the original film.
SEA OF JOY, a title borrowed from the Blind Faith song of the
same name (featured on the group's 1969 self-titled
longplayer), was, as a film, a relaxing experience instead of
the usual "story" or "travelogue". Uncrowded waves from
Australia to Africa to Hawaii were a strong feature of the
film and there was a serene beauty to the production.
Geoff Watson in his review of the film in the surfing tabloid
Tracks (issue #8) commented, "Paul Witzig takes us into his
child's world in his newest film. It is a world of puppy dogs
and slow motion pony rides, of fish eye gnomes and laughing
faces. The grown-ups are friendly and very kind and every day
is a holiday."
A style and sound that won them inclusion in Lillian Roxon's
highly acclaimed ROCK ENCYCLOPEDIA. In fact, they were the
only truly Australian group included in the book.
(from the liner notes by Stephen McParland)
"Sea of Joy is a score filled with evocative memories of an
era when youth culture was emerging and searching for a new
era of peace and hope of a better world.
The world may have lost this path, but the music lives on as a
testament to dreams of freedom." ... Paul Witzig
http://www.emrecords.net/records/00083.html
from aquariusrecords.org
Last list we highlighted two somewhat unusual "surf music"
reissues, by Farm and Peter Martin & Finch, both brought to us
by our favorite Japanese reissue label, EM Records, as part of
their Summer 2007 "EM Under Water Series"! Those were quite
cool, and now we've got the remaining three discs in the
series, all of 'em (like those first two) soundtracks to
several now-legendary surfing movies from back in the
sixties/seventies. With the exception of Farm (from the USA)
all the bands in EM's series are Australian, and in all cases
the movies they were doing soundtracks for were Australian
productions and/or featured Australian surfers. And as before,
this isn't your typical SoCal Jan & Dean, Beach Boys style
surf music... it's *psychedelic* surf music. Well 2 out of 3
of these anyway (the Tim Gaze Band album being more of a yacht
rock outing).
Tully were apparently a pretty successful sixties rock act in
their native Australia, despite playing total "head" music,
not anything you could boogie to. They were popular enough to
do a TV show, and even played with the Sydney Orchestra! They
came from the same "alternative surf" scene as Tamam Shud, and
were just as musically progressive, having the freedom to
develop their material while touring as the backing band for
an Australian production of "Hair", getting into poncho-garbed
spirituality and electronic experiments (being the first band
Down Under to possess a Moog). Somewhere along the way they
merged membership with acid folk outfit Extradition, before
recording their very freeform second album, this one, the 1971
soundtrack to Sea Of Joy, a surf movie directed by Paul Witzig
(same guy who shot Evolution, for which Tamam Shud did the
soundtrack).
Angelic female vocals, gentle organ grooves, hippie folk
blissfulness, mellow instrumental textures -- it's truly
glorious, lovely stuff. Quite exploratory too, with a
freeform, organic feel. Tully's Sea Of Joy can be sunshiney
(quite literally, on songs like "I Feel The Sun" and "Brother
Sun") one moment, almost spooky the next (on such sinisterly
electronics-laden tracks as "Follow Me" and "Down To The
Sea"). And their interest in Eastern Indian mysticism comes
through on the raga-like "Syndrone", for instance. EM says
this moody, mesmeric album is the one in the series that's
been selling best for them, and we're not surprised.
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01-Sea of Joy (Part 1) [04:27]
02-Pseudo-Tragic-Dramatic [01:12]
03-Follow Me [03:50]
04-Cat-Clarinet Mit Orgel [04:02]
05-Trinidad [03:13]
06-I Feel the Sun [05:41]
07-Thank You [03:22]
08-Syndrone [06:46]
09-Softly, Softly [04:31]
10-Brother Sun [03:16]
11-Down to the Sea [03:38]
12-Sea of Joy (Part 2) [02:30]
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46:28 min