APHRODITE'S CHILD : IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK / FUNKY MARY [MERCURY - ESP 1970] 7”

Aphrodite's Child "It's Five O'Clock" single 7"

(Mercury) 1970 made in Spain

cat. num. 51 32 508

#rock #prog rock

1. it's five o'clock

2. funky mary

Aphrodite's Child's second LP was in some ways both a continuation of and departure from their debut album, End of the World. There were some grandiose keyboard-based sub-British psychedelic tracks that could have fit in well on the previous record. The title song's celestial organ, for instance, is much like that on heard on U.K. psychedelic records of the period such as Rupert's People's "Reflections of Charlie Brown," though it's more sentimentally romantic than virtually anything a British band would have released, especially in its vocal delivery. "Funky Mary," on the other hand, is a really cool departure into almost experimental soul-rock, its phased vocals backed by an almost musique concrète wash of bashing drums, Latin-African-flavored bongos, and jazzy vibraphone.