Bill Plummer & the Cosmic Brotherhood – Journey To The East
I am what you call a “productive procrastinator.” While I’ve been trying to get this Brazilian mix I’ve been promising, I’ve been working around it listening to other things too. It’s highly likely once I get that mix done, that there will be several more in it’s wake, including another volume of my Cuban series, Sorpresa Musical, as well as a Psych collection and a Spiritual Jazz one as well. This Bill Plummer record could be featured in both of the latter mixes. This was an album I’d never even heard of before seeing it at Atomic Records in Burbank. Plummer put together a large and solid group, with five different musicians playing sitar, tamboura or sarode. “Journey To The East” is one of the cooler hippie-fied 1960s tunes I’ve run across, with great sitar, an amplified Tom Scott sax solo, spoken word/recitation from fellow sitarist Hersh Hamel and the heavy and instantly recognizable bass of the legendary Carol Kaye. Here’s to hoping a bit of that Summer of Love vibe from 1967 spreads peace and spiritual comfort during our current Summer of discontent.
