Sunday, January 17, 2016

Aardvark - s/t 1970

The cool thing about Aardvark is that they brought a heavy as heel sound without the use of any guitar. Their music was solely keyboard driven. Sadly, this is another case of a really good band releasing one sole album, then falling into obscurity. You can't help but wonder what effect this band could have had on the evolution of hard rock bands. Would more of the metal bands today be using methods of delivering heavy music without distorted guitars? overdrive pedals?
Hailing from the Midlands, the band were mostly a studio project. With very little live performances to speak of. In fact, there's very little information about them at all.
Steve Miliner previously played keyboards for Black Cat Bones, ("Barbed Wire Sandwich" being their only release), but this band's popularity had much to do with Paul Kossof and Simon Kirke, who both left the band to form the band Free.
Definitely an important piece of British Psychedelia.







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