ORANG UTAN 1971 Orang Utan

Artist: Orang-Utan
Album: Orang-Utan
Genre: Hard Rock, Acid Rock, Heavy Psychedelic Rock
Year: 1971
Country: England
Label/Catalog: Lizard Records / LR 0703-2 (1998 Reissue)

Tracklist:
01 I Can See Inside Your Head
02 Slipping Away (3:27)
03 Love Queen (9:41)
04 Chocolate Piano (14:14)
05 If You Leave (20:48)
06 Fly Me High (26:11)
07 Country Hike (31:02)
08 Magic Playground (35:13)

Line-up:
Jeff Seopardie – drums
Paul Roberts – bass guitar
Sid Fairman – guitar
Mick Clarke – guitar
Terry “Nobby” Clark – vocals

Actually known as Hunter, this band was formed in the late 60s in North London by a group of highly-gifted young musicians from other local bands of some recognizment which had disbanded shortly before. Their only album shows the top-grade musical quality, creativity and inventivity making a hard rock fulfilled of acid and psychedelic approaches, driven by still uncommon distortions for those times and an intensity quite similar to stoner rock bands. The band, therefore, decided in a then “state-of-the-art” 16-track studio facility in London with the latest sound technology available. Curiously, the album was only released in the United States by Bell Records through a certain Adrian Miller, who pretended to be the band’s producer and without any band members’ consent! Miller was who in fact secretly suggest the real bands’s producer to change their name to Orang-Utan, even if they kept going on under the name Hunter – after an Albert King’s song – until their last days. The guitarrist Sid Fairman wasn’t ever credited, once that he left the band shortly after the album recording. At the end of everything, here’s the example of a talented band which could have been very sucessful, which sadly was surrounded with some wrong people who managed to make everything go down the drain.