Totally phreaked Irish psychedelia for the summer of love hangover. Led by Belfast-born wunderkind David Lewis, Andwellas Dream’s 1969 debut Love and Poetry shreds the line between Denmark Street and Cyprus Avenue. A 13-song pastoral fever dream lost in the CBS warehouse, now remastered and restored to its original glory.
Composed entirely by Numero favorite Dave Lewis, this album captures the origin sound of Irish psych rock. Heavy tunes with exceptional guitar work is mixed with current affair themes dosed with cutting edge studio effects, exotic percussion, layers of jazz flute and acoustic guitar. Still relatively unknown outside the collector circles, this album has gained cult grail status after 40 years and is very well demand. The album art alone is often featured in periodicals and books on the scene as peak representation of the era.
Love and Poetry captures the perfect moment in sound and time – just before the abandon of psychedelia mutated into the bore predictability of what would become “prog rock”. Pack up the water pipe, flip the lav lamp on and transport yourself back the late ’60’s properly drenched in mind-expanded utopian themes and innocent musical experimentation. Hold onto your mind!