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PISCES A LOVELY SIGHT EXCLAIM MAGAZINE
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Pisces A Lovely Sight~NOT A LONG LOST BUT AN UNRELEASED GEM~SEEMS TO COME OUT OF NOWHERE AND THATS BECAUSE IT DOES. CONSISTING OF A CORE DUO OF Rockford, Il TOWNIES WITH A STUDIO AND A FEW TRICKS UP THEIR SLEEVES, Pisces WERE AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT SPEARHEADED BY ORDINARY FOLKS THAT NEVER QUITE SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY. IT'S NO SUPRISE THEN THAT A Lovely Sight SOUNDS LIKE LITTLE ELSE FROM THE TIME PERIOD~.
MINIMAL, ALMOST SING~SONG MELODIES ARE BASTED IN REVERB AND GARNISHED WITH EXPERIMENTAL, ON THE FLY RECORDING INNOVATIONS, SOME BORN OF NECESSITY, OTHERS OF TRIAL AND ERROR~SOUNDS ARE PLAYED BACKWARDS AND BROKEN INSTRUMENTS ARE EMPLOYED TO HALLUCINOGENIC EFFECT. SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD Linda Bruner, A STRANGE GIRL FROM DOWN THE WAY (AND NOWADAYS, AS FAR AS EVERYONE KNOWS, ON THE RUN FROM THE LAW) SINGS ON FOUR TRACKS, AND HER HAUNTING VOICE, WHEN IT APPEARS, COMPLIMENTS PERFECTLY WITH HER BAND MATES SKEWED POP CREATIONS~.
A RECORD ALL THE MORE FASCINATING BECAUSE OF THE DRAB SETTIN IN WHICH ITS CREATORS WORKED, A Lovely Sight IS A NATURAL ADDITION TO THE Numero COLLECTION.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF PISCES
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FORGOTTEN 60'S BANDS UNEARTHED BY RECORD FIENDS RAREY BLOW MY MIND, BUT Pisces IS AN EXCEPTION. IN JUNE The Numero Group RELEASED "A Lovely Sight", A COLLECTION OF 15 TRACKS FROM THIS ROCKFORD PSYCH OUTFIT, AND IT'S A STUNNER~. THE CORE MEMBERS WERE KEY BOARDIST & SINGER Paul Diventi, WHO'D GIGGED IN ROCKFORD DANCE BANDS, AND GUITAREST Jim Krein, WHO PLAYED IN THE Chandras WHILE AT THE UNIVERSARY OF Illinois & WORKED THE Chicago's North Side CIRCUIT WITH THE Monday ~ Tuesday Band BEFORE SETTLING DOWN IN Rockford & PARTNERING WITHE DIVENTI AS Seeds Of Reason.
THEY CUT A PROMO~ONLY 45 WITH Bobby Whiteside PRODUCING, BUT AFTER KREIN VISITED San Fransisco IN 1967 THEY BECAME DELICATELY PSYCHEDELIC "A Lovely Sight" (THOUGH THEY WERE PLAYING ROUGH Cirero BIKER BARS). FINALY THEY CHANGED THEIR NAME TO Pisces (AFTER THE STAR SIGN THEY SHARED) AND BUILT A MODEST STUDIO, WITH EQUIPMENT ON LOAN FROM THE SHOP RUN BY Rick Nielsen's PARENTS. Pisces WERE MORE A RECORDING PROJECT THAN A LIVE BAND, KREIN HAD INSOMNIA AND EXPERIMENTED IN THEIR STUDIO CONSTANTLY, USING BACKWARDS GUITAR, PHASED DRUMS, & TREATED VOCALS TO CREATE UNEARTHLY SOUNDS WORTHY OF Abby Road.
Rockford's ONLY REAL LABEL HEAD TAILOR Vincent Chiarelli, SIGNED THEM TO HIS VINCENT IMPRINT, RELEASING TWO 45'S IN 1968 UNDER THE NAME "Bruner", AFTER Pisces ADDED 17 YEAR~OLD SINGER Linda Bruner, A TALENTED BUT TROUBLED SOUL FROM Rockford's "WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS" IN Loves Park. HER ETHEREAL VOCALS ADDED A NEW DIMENSION TO THE GROUP, LIKE Nico DID FOR THE Velvet Underground. BUT A PLANNED LP WITH BRUNER NEVER MATERIALIZED, AND A.L.S. STUDIOS BURNED DOWN IN 1970, CRIPPLING THE BAND AND ENDING THE PARTY. MORE THAN 35 YEARS LATER, Numero WOULD SIFT THROUGH A MOUNTAIN OF UNRELEASED RECORDINGS, WITH KREIN & DIVENTI'S HELP TO COMPILE "A Lovely Sight.