PISCES - A Lovely Sight
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 09:00AM 
In the late '60s, Rockford, Illinois musical collective Pisces ran a studio that they used to produce a body of work that, had they lived in San Francisco or another city with a vibrant psychedelic scene, might have made some waves. Aside from geography, another key detail working against them was the fact that they never issued an album of their work. It's sad, really, because with their knowledge of production techniques and a skill for writing the kind of material that extrapolated, quite convincingly, from the key hallmarks of pop-psychedelia–heavily treated instruments, backward-masking, mixed male-female harmonies a la Jefferson Airplane, and an overall autumnal mood–it's easy to believe that had these songs coalesced into a proper album, they could have been contenders, regionally at the very least. The flanged-out “Mary” could be Os Mutantes backed by Jaki Liebezeit on drums, while the gentle folk of “Are You Changing In Your Time” marvelously boasts the talented vocals of Linda Bruner, who features on four tracks. The lost psych department trickles slowly these days, but you’d be wise to check this out, along with the recent reissue of The Golden Dawn’s Power Plant.
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