Rick Saucedo Heaven Was Blue(1978)[FLAC] torrent

Heaven Was Blue [1978]2005 - Underground Masters / UM002 / Remastered


01. Reality – 4.25
02. In My Mind – 4.12
03. Country Shakin’ History Makin’ – 2.48
04. Ka Mon Gonna Rock All Night Long – 3.52
05. Heaven Was Blue – 18.29

Rick Saucedo is mainly known as an Illinois-based Elvis impersonator, and a successful one at that, but some time when the King’s ghost wasn’t looking he sneaked out and cut himself two sides of music that were as far to the other end of the spectrum as you can imagine; dreamy, melodic 60s-style psychedelia.

The album opens with “Reality”, a dreamy yet concise trip of rich guitar tapestries and nice folky hooks. It is a flowing and multilayered piece of music with wistful vocals and a droning melody.

Saucedo then spins a few wheels on his kaleidoscope and via a single echoing guitar note we flow into “In my mind”, a counterpart and alternative to the “Reality” of almost the exact same duration. It’s at least as strong as the opening track, a little heavier with fuzz chords chugging underneath the multilayered guitars and a more cutting vocal style, albeit still totally in a 1967-68 flowerpsych mood along with the great use of organ and booming bass.

Skipping past the two roots rockers, it’s time to flip the LP over and parachute into the marvelously painted landscape that constitutes Saucedo’s sidelong title track. If it seems that “In my mind” and “Reality” gave promises of melodic psychedelic nirvana, then “Heaven was blue” is the realization. Clocking in at almost 19 minutes it is something unique in the psychedelic world; a successful transportation of the acid heritage from John Lennon’s “Revolver” into the domains of carefully composed suites. Saucedo pulls it off like a charm — stacking new melodies, guitar figures and arrangements atop the old ones every 3 minutes or so, each more swirling and enchanting than the last, and retaining a sense of progression throughout. The fact that it’s less than a perfect performance, with guitars occasionally strolling off-key and the drummer seeming to wing it as he goes along, enforces the human warmth and removes any progressive rock specter forcefully.

Exactly how a moonlighting Elvis impersonator made this amazing album is one for our children’s children to ponder.

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