Fourth Sensation, Italy

Fourth Sensation. 1970 Ricordi

Fourth Sensation were a mysterious Italian group from the late 60s (who apparently were related to The Pleasure Machine), and who released this one sole album. Overall it's a somewhat typical instrumental psych/blues/jazz rock hybrid. Roller rink organ dominates, and this sound is combined with half Les Paul era non-distorted electric leads... and half way-out psychedelic fuzz guitar. This is precisely the kind of music that would be used in those party sequence shots of an old Streets of San Francisco episode. All good fun, though nothing extraordinary like Braen's Machine Underground, or even Blue Phantom, both recording under similar auspices in Italy during this time. Ties closest musically to The Psycheground Group or The Underground Set I'd submit.

***Reissued by Cinedelic on LP (2017).

Priority: 3

11/1/10