Fraction - Moon Blood - Rare OG + 3 Bonus Tracks (1971 Glendale, CA) | Heavy Psych | Stream Repeat

Repost of a recent live stream. A full deep dive on Fraction's Moon Blood from an original Angelus pressing - the band's backstory, the Acid Archives entry that put it on the map, albums it stands up against, and three rare bonus tracks that never made the 1971 original. For today’s psychedelic trip this morning I’m spinning Fraction’s Moon Blood on Angelus Records WR-5005, a 1971 US private press I come back to often. One of the rarest heavy psych LPs out there - only 200 copies originally pressed on Angelus, the house label for Whitney Recording Studios in Glendale, California. Lorin Whitney ran the studio, and the label mostly released Christian inspirational records. Fraction’s LP is far and away the best-known thing Angelus ever put out. 00:00 Intro 01:58 Acid Archives Entry 04:16 Side 1 - OG Pressing 22:03 Flip + Albums This One Beats 25:12 Side 2 - OG Pressing 40:27 Three Non-Album Tracks 01:05:15 2010 Mexican Summer Reissue The band was Jim Beach on vocals, concept, and cover design, Bob Meinel and Don Swanson on guitars, Vic Hemme on bass, and Curt Swanson on percussion. All five tracks were recorded in a single three-hour session, live with no overdubs, produced by the band themselves. Beach’s vocals land somewhere between Jim Morrison and Robert Plant. The playing pulls hard toward The Doors, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin. The lyrics reflect the band’s Christian faith but it never gets preachy. More apocalyptic imagery than altar call. “Come Out Of Her” borrows a line from Revelation 18. “Eye Of The Hurricane” is the 8:42 epic that anchors side one. “This Bird (Sky High)” closes with a Doors-style spoken-word break before pushing into the heaviest psych on the record. The jacket is one of the most famous in private press collecting. A transparent red window on the front lets the moon printed on the inner sleeve show through, and the position of the moon shifts depending on how the inner sleeve is rotated inside the jacket. The design is often compared to The Doors’ L.A. Woman, which came out the same year with a similar die-cut window idea. Acid Archives put Moon Blood on the map for collectors in the late 80s and 90s and it has stayed a holy grail ever since. Mexican Summer reissued it in 2010. RidingEasy brought it back officially in 2024 with Jim Beach’s blessing. Beach is still alive and declined to participate in the reissue. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #Fraction #MoonBlood #HeavyPsych #VinylStream #VinylPiper