Comments on: The C.A. Quintet “Trip Thru Hell”

By: Len Liechti

Len Liechti — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:25:59 +0000

OK: got it, played it, love it, wow! Psych meets prog meets Motown meets mariachi. Who’d have thought a trip through hell could sound so funky? Lots of splendid studio trickery too – Steve Longman obviously had the George Martin / Eddie Kramer handbook. The outtakes and alternative versions are mostly excellent too. The Sundazed reissue listing has as an unlisted final track something that sounds like a local radio plug for an early Quintet gig. And didn’t they look cutesy in those matching frat rock uniforms? Bet they were glad to get rid of those! Just one tiny grouse – why do you guys back there in the Colonies insist on putting those almost-unremovable gummy security strips on the tops of your CD jewel cases? They really suck!

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:23:53 +0000

Vinyl reissue (w/ LPs worth of bonus material) available through
Sundazed Records: http://www.sundazed.com/product_info.php?products_id=36
Highly Recommended – a great trip!

By: Len Liechti

Len Liechti — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:50:55 +0000

Phew! Sounds like the rock version of Dante’s Inferno, or Arthur Brown with real attitude. After reading this review and Katie’s sensational blog writeup I just had to order a copy. Look for a comment soon.
Re the recent discussions about various formats, it’s clear to me that one major advantage of the digital revolution is that we’re so fortunate to be able to obtain reissues of stuff like this so easily, because setting up a limited reissue run on CD is so easy productionwise. I still recall the late sixties and early seventies when, if you discovered an artist you liked and tried to obtain their earlier releases, unless it was somebody really big like the Beatles you hit a brick wall because these had been deleted already – the result of predetermined quantity vinyl pressing and the expense of setting up limited volume repressings on vinyl. I love CD, and I love the Internet for giving me access to info on records like this one.

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weird canada » Review :: Sex Church – Dead End b/w Let Down — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:06:26 +0000

[...] idols and re-hashed idioms. And why not? When it’s done well, we put our minds on a true trip thru hell. Sex Church easily accomplishes this with their mix of doomy, pedantic guitar drones and gothic [...]

By: Katie Camosy

Katie Camosy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:20:28 +0000

An overwhelming experience indeed!

Here’s a blog we just published about this “lost” LP if you want to check it out:

http://www.zoom-in.com/blog/music/katie-camosy/a-trip-thru-hell-with-the-ca-quintet