Arcadium - 1969 - Breathe A While - 05. Change me

ARCADIUM were a late 60's psychedelic band fronted by songwriter, 12-string guitarist and lead vocalist Miguel Sergides. Sergides was joined by Graham Best on bass and vocals, Allan Ellwood on organ and vocals, John Albert Parker on drums and Robert Ellwood on lead guitar and vocals. Like many, they played the clubs until a small label by the name of Middle Earth - who released a whopping total of five albums - finally approached them. In 1969, "Breathe Awhile" was issued on an LP, the only album the band ever recorded. It has lately been reissued in cd format by German label Akarma.

ARCADIUM's ominous, cathedral-like organ, distorted guitar and anguished vocals are clearly derivative of bands such as the DOORS, IRON BUTTERFLY and VANILLA FUDGE - very much in the 'downer-heavy' school of the genre that was popular at the time. Their album is something of a bad-trip soundtrack that relies on minor-key melodies, ghostly harmonies and anguished vocals. What with all its flaws - bad production, sloppy vocals and doomesday atmospherics - its historical significance is immense. The music's intensity and sense of urgency, the blazing acid-drenched guitars, the tortured vocals and heavy nightmarish sounds all perfectly convey the late 60's atmosphere.

Fans of heavy psychedelia in search of a genuine dose of 60's nostalgia will love this band.

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Music

Tags:

• Arcadium
• Heavy
• Prog
• Space
• Rock
• Breathe
• While

[MadMax300173]

Part 1 They say i'll be kind, but they are conscious, their mind they know their objections, but they tactify, their lie has no bound, their freedom has no home, where is my future, where can i hide, in the will that come in my mind, so hard to define, so hard to describe, I just can't describe it, change me, change me, change me, if you can baby, change, you got to change all your thinking, change your mind into many of thoughts, change your world so i can talk,

[MadMax300173]

Part 2 They say, i'll be wise, but they're fool, they're disguised, they speak, with their hatred, they lie with their love, they criticize but they don't know, the life of their lives has got to show where is my freedom, where can i Hide, in the whirls that come in my mind, so hard to define, so hard to describe, i just can't describe it,

[MadMax300173]

Part 3:

oh change me, oh change me, you've got to change me, baby,

change, you've got to change all your thinking,

change your mind into many of thoughts,

change your world so i can talk,

change, you've got to change all your thinking

change, you've got to change all your thinking babe

[jimmyboy7419]

ισως οτι καλυτερο εχω ακουσει απο το ειδοσ

[travellingirl1]

This band were the Godfathers of psychedelia, the drummer the late John Parker was one of the best in the UK, he later joined CZAR and then CONSORTIUM.

Listen to his great playing on CONSORTIUM albums "REBIRTH" and "13th HOUR"

Fantastic.

[Warnz60]

Does anyone knowi if they played at The Marquee Club in Soho, London as a second act to the Bee Gees (what a combination lol). Not sure if it is the same band.

[sybnios]

My Love from Greece! Thank you for this beautiful gem! Peace

[Azargled]

Greetings from Greece as well... glad to see that there are greek people here who know about good obscure music...

[ChangedMind69]

Oh thanks man! thats great!

[Epiphone314]

Part 2

They say, oh be wise, but there fools in disgues,

they speak with their headdress, they lie with their love

they critize what they dont know, they live with their lives they got to show.

Where is my freedom, where can i hide. im the wheels turn in my mind, so hard to define, so hard to describe.

Thats most of them, i think i just left out some of the easy ones that everyone knows already.