Orion's Beethoven - Superangel / Tercer Milenio. CD. (Lion Music - LION 190) Both Seventies albums from this Argentinian rock band with plenty of progressive touches along with the hard rock that was their stock-in-trade. The first album has some particularly cool psychedelic wah-wah guitar and a garage band production whilst the second includes some mellotron work in amongst the hard rock mayhem. Recommended.

Orion's Beethoven - Superangel. LP. (A Narrow Escape From Oblivion - NARROW ESCAPE P) 1973 hard progressive rock album from Argentina, with plenty of psychedelic wah wah guitar and a garage band production that gives the whole thing a spooky atmosphere. Originals of this album now go for silly money but now you can get a classy reissue in the original sleeve..

Orion's Beethoven - Superangel. CD. This band worked classical music themes into a jagged psychedelic wah-wah guitar shaped world of their own making. Here we have a reissue of their debut album (1973), which starts out with a riff that sounds like a schizoid version of the Get Smart theme music, and goes on from there into weird reaches of flanged vocals, hard-edged guitar solos; the second track, a thirteen minute suite, is driven by guitar-first acoustic, then a wiry-wounding electric; track three is stranger still-echo effects, flanged drums sounding like an outer-spatial blues band jam. Im sure those "classical music" themes are there somewhere in track four, but theres no sense of "precious" about this band. Live bonus track is brief-a portion of the suite (track two) from the album-and apparently a rare document of the band on stage.

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