Release of An Oath

The Electric Prunes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 13, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B000I8OMR6
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,409 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Collector's Choice Music presents this remastered CD credited to the Electric Prunes. In actuality, it's a production tour-de-force by studio genius David Axelrod. 7 tracks.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brings back good memories, May 6, 2007

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Frank H. McCurdy (Burleson, TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This was a very long awaited release for me. I bought the original LP when new in 1969, my senior year in high school. Through the years I have worn out three copies of that piece of vinyl. I first bought it because of the groups previous album The Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night). Was I ever surprised to hear what was recoreded. I don't know exactly what the attraction ever was but I have loved Release of An Oath since first spinning it. I highly recommend this to anyone who just likes to close their eyes and listen to classical style inspirational music with a rock flair.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent and a half, March 29, 2011

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Release of An Oath (Audio CD)

Forget the garage rock of Had Too Much to Dream. That and this version of the Electric Prunes have only name in common.

Better to think of the windowpane church fright of Mass in F Minor. The dark orchestrations of David Axlerod that made that so unique are also on Release Of An Oath: Searing acid guitars, footsteps of God bass, echoing gothic drums.

This is the 3:47 in the morning 1968 FM music that everyone but hardcore music people, and perhaps sampling DJs, forgot. Amazing both for its historical strangeness and obscurity and for its overriding nuance.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yes, this is the real E Prunes!, July 21, 2007

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J. Wittstruck "planetary representative" (Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Release of An Oath (Audio CD)

Sorry to have to disagree with the other post, but I know from it's first

release in the late 60's, this is the real Electric Prunes! This is one of those

lost-in-the-vault classics from the psychedelic era-

one of the many strange branches that people took off on during their search

to find the way... music was so diverse then!

You don't have to be religious to get this, but maybe you have to be

having an out of body experience, no?

Over the years this sure has grown on me, recommended for any fringe hunters!