Trip-O-Meter: 4.5 out of 5
First off - this is not a good headphones album. It tosses entire tracks from left to right in the stereo spectrum. I am listening on headphones and the effect is pissing me off. Just make it true mono and end my day, please. Maybe you've got some software to collapse it own your own. Do it. This absolutely needs to be a mono album as opposed to immaculately stoned, yet idiotic stereo.
On to the good news. This is a full out trippy stumble though inspired raga rock, inflected by the vibrations of a professional studio. Professionals do appear. Ry Cooder is blasting his guitar through several of the sections and Larry Knetchel is on keyboards. I'm going to be honest - I don't really know who Knetchel is, but I do recall seeing his name in a lot of places. I have, like, ten Cooder albums on CD and I'm pretty sure a listened to a few of them at least one time. But that doesn't matter. When you listen to Ceyleib People, you are listening to fantastic raga rock instrumentals inscrutably thrown out into either stereo channel - one at a time for 90% of the time. Allmusic Guide suggests that there are tracks here, but I've got it all lumped into four sections that will engroovy you one at a time.
This is very cool stuff, mixed in the worst way possible. I would raise the quality half a point if you just collapsed it all into a single channel. Sometimes mono needs to be king and this is exhibit A. Otherwise, kudos to the Ceyleib People.
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The most recent legit re-release had both stereo and original mono mixes.
Larry Knechtel was an LA session musician, a member of the Wrecking Crew who played on countless hit records in sixites.
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