Balduin – Rainbow Tapes

Some weeks ago somebody gave me a CD, mono, of 'Magical Mystery Tour', since he now had the vinyl. And I am a bit Beatles fan, especially the later period, so it was a hardly a surprise that, even I don't play the Beatles a lot, I still knew every song, every move and am still amazed by the complexity of the music, with the limited means it was made. I don't know if Balduin's means are limited, even when he says it was all recorded on analoge tape, but he likes later Beatles too, as he shows in the twenty-four pieces on 'Rainbow Tapes'. The same fascination for short pieces, psychedelica, the use of weird sounds, weird lyrics. Balduin, who previously recorded for Crippled Dick Hot Wax!, plays all the instruments himself, ranging from guitar, xylophone, flute, rattle, a children's keyboard and apparently he sings for the first time. Quite a fine record, even when it seems to outside the limits of Vital Weekly (it's a pity that The Square Root Of Sub no longer writes for these pages, who dug this kind of music best in our team). Balduin is a Lennon and McCartney in one. Strange lyrics, regular lyrics, strange sounds and normal playing - it makes an album of highly psychedelic music, topped with a great retro cover too. Ah, the old days.