ORANG-UTAN (UK) Chocolate Piano Orang-Utan 1971 Incredible Heavy Doom Rock in the Leafhound/Sabbath/Iron Claw mould! This album was released without the band even knowing! m.youtube/watch?v=IsTmyExEwxs&fulldescription=1&gl=GB&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&guid= Orang Utan: An often considered Psychedelic, Acid Rock, Heavy Rock, Hard Rock group from London, England, whose only album was originally released in the U.S. exclusively. ��The band was previously known as Hunter but never issued any recordings under that name. �They are based heavily on sludgy Blues type riffs. They have great musicianship in all instrumental departments the biggest emphasis being on the twin lead guitars. Their heavy sound can also be considered an influence on the Stoner Rock genre.� Sounds similar to American and British groups such as, Deep Purple, Vanilla Fudge, Cream, Black Sabbath, Jimi�Hendrix�Experience, Led Zeppelin, B.F Trike, and Mountain. �Orang Utan featured musicians from several other notable dissolving bands, that had been playing in north London in the late 60s. Singer Terry �Nobby� Clarke was co-founder of the band Jason Crest.� They recorded their album at a 16 track studio facility in London. The bands only album was released on the U.S. Bell Records label in 1970. The band had no idea their album was being released and only found out about it by accident.� Adrian Miller was the person that claimed the producers title on the Bell album release.� He was also the person responsible for stealing this material from the musicians and getting it released without the groups consent or knowledge. Adrian even secretly convinced the groups unsuspecting manager at the time, to suggest to the band to change their name to Orang-Utan. At the time the band were still going by their original name Hunter which they had taken from an Albert King song. �It is believed that if the band had been managed with any real degree of integrity and professionalism, they possibly would have went on to do bigger and better things. The music itself consists of well played and diversely crafted heavy guitar oriented rock. It is not of a Psychedelic nature, or Acid Rock based as some have claimed. There was only one member that even smoked hash regularly. Several of the songs are nothing short of brilliant and serve to show what incredible talent these young 19-20 year old musicians possessed. Most all of the music was written and composed by Jeff Seopardie who was the drummer, with the majority of the guitar & bass riffs being developed and played by Mick Clarke & Paul Roberts respectively. �Nobby� Clark, whose powerful and well done vocal duties can be heard quite clearly on the album, only had one lung. �Nobby� was actually the second vocalist for the band and demos do exist from the band line up that proceeded him. �Musically, Orang Utan features great twin lead guitar work and some long tracks with titles like Chocolate Piano this is similar in style to Leaf Hound and early Led Zeppelin with a late 60s U.S. feel. Terry Nobby Clark - Vocals (ex-JASON CREST, VENDETTA) Mick Clarke - Guitars Sid Fairman - Guitars Paul Roberts - Bass Jeff Seopardie - Drums (ISOTOPE, BRAND X, PACIFIC EARDRUM, CHRIS REA, SAD CAFE, BOYS DONT CRY, CHUCK BERRY)
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