ARTIST: The Dragons
TITLE: B.F.I
LABEL: Ninja Tune
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 203kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 41m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-08-24
RIP DATE: 2007-08-21
Track List
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1. Cosmosis 3:19
2. Food For My Soul 4:02
3. Amplified Emotion 3:42
4. Sandman 2:58
5. On The Wall 2:48
6. Are You There? 4:03
7. Sunset Scenary 4:16
8. Mercy Call 4:48
9. Pop's Bag 3:39
10. Big Mike Requiem 4:56
11. Your Way Too 3:01
Release Notes:
Other release was ripped from a vinyl LP. Enjoy this CD rip.
ItÆs the late sixties. Three brothers, Doug, Daryl and Dennis Dragon are living
in Malibu, surfing and gigging around the Los Angeles area and having their
minds blown by the music of The Beatles, Hendrix and The Doors. The
multi-instrumentalist sons of a symphony conductor and an opera singer, the
Dragon brothers decide itÆs time to create their own psychedelic soul/rock
masterpiece. A high school friend of Dennis, Donn Landee, is working as a
recording engineer at Sunwest Recording Studios in Hollywood and they begin to
go there to put tracks down in ôoff timeö. They find themselves layering their
instruments in new ways, adding deep, bassy vocal lines and then ramming them up
against falsetto harmonies, adding organs and space age sound effects, recording
spirituals and pop and crazy rock opera. The effect is increasingly spacey and
weird, but also funky û a missing link between new directions others are
exploring in jazz and soul as well as rock music.Unfortunately, the suits at the
West Coast offices of the major labels arenÆt ready, complaining that they donÆt
hear a hit. The boys become disillusioned and focus instead on their session
work. They all end up working in the Beach BoysÆ backing band. Doug moves to
Hawaii, tours Australia. Dennis becomes a successful record producer. Daryl
hooks up with Toni Tennille and experiences international chart success as æThe
CaptainÆ. The DragonsÆ æBFIÆ is forgotten.Jump on 37 years. Strictly Kev/DJ
Food, influential mixologist and designer for Ninja Tune and obsessive record
collector picks up a new batch of vinyl from a record dealer he knows. In
amongst them is a 500-run private pressing of the soundtrack to a surf movie
called æA Sea For YourselfÆ. On it is a track called æFood For My SoulÆ by a
band called the Dragons. Kev being a fan of all possible food-based puns and
currently putting together the mix for his new Solid Steel mix CD for Ninja,
drops the needle on the groove. What he finds amazes him û a true psychedelic
original from a band heÆs never heard of. Using his extensive contacts in the
world of vinyl mania, he manages to track Dennis Dragon down. He emails him,
asks him if he can include æFood For My SoulÆ on the mix. Sure, says Dennis.
ThereÆs a whole album of the stuff if heÆs interested. Dennis checks. Donn still
has the master tapes. He converts them to mp3 and emails them to Kev. Kev is
blown away. He forwards them to Ninja Tune. Ninja Tune think itÆs a scam. But
then they listen. And they listen again. And then, after nearly forty years
sitting on a recording engineerÆs shelf, Ninja Tune decide to release æBFIÆ.
Beautifully played and produced, full of crazy invention and a loveably naive
lack of self-consciousness, æBFIÆ is a miniature masterpiece, a lost classic of
psych-whimsy, West Coast sexiness and serious musical chops. Surely weÆre ready
by now..?