Bought their Rhino compilation recently - a very ornately packaged 2CD affair which compiles both their albums in full plus non-album singles and B-sides.
Even by the exalted standards of late '60s avant-MoR orchestral pop - I found the compilation in the Easy Listening section of Virgin! - this is pretty strange stuff. Sunny harmonies all to do with things dying, passing through ("The Last Time I Saw Josephine," "Brilliant Colors") with a label legend BORGES FOREVER!, mixed with string and horn arrangements somewhere between Bartok and Ives. The second album is even further out there and includes a bizarre pirate mini-opera.
I haven't quite made my mind up about it yet. Tupper Saussy, judging from the extensive interview in the accompanying booklet, is clearly one strange character. What do you think?
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 28 April 2006 09:09 (twenty years ago)