Kak - Kak-Ola (1968)

Kak - Kak-Ola

Another favorite of mine, KAK. This album is perfect on all points for me. You will love every single song if you are into heavy stuff. "Trieulogy", "Electric Sailor", "Mirage & Rain", "I Miss You" are the songs I can't get enough of. Listen to the lyrics, enjoy Kak.

Album information:

01 - Hco 97658

02 - Everything's Changing 

03 - Electric Sailor

04 - Disbelievin'

05 - I've Got Time

06 - Flowing By

07 - Bryte 'N' Clear Day

08 - Trieulogy 

09 - Lemonaide Kid

10 - Rain (Single Version)

11 - Everything's Changing (Acoustic Demo)

12 - I've Got Time (Acoustic Demo)

13 - (Medley) Bye Bye & Easy Jack (Previously Unissued)

14 - Bryte 'N' Clear Day (Acoustic Live Version)

15 - (Medley) Mirage & Rain (Acoustic Live Version)

16 - When Love Comes In (Previously Unissued)

17 - I Miss You (Previously Unissued)

18 - Lonely People Blues (Previously Unissued)

19 - Flight From The East

20 - Good Time Music

Band information:

Although formed in Davis, CA, Kak were based in San Francisco for a good part of 1968, when they recorded their only album. Lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter Gary Lee Yoder and lead guitarist Dehner Patten had been in the Oxford Circle, an obscure early Northern Californian psychedelic band that had cut one garage/psych single ("Foolish Woman"/"Mind Destruction") and played some shows on the San Francisco psychedelic circuit, while bassist Joe Dave Damrell had been on a 1965 single on Scorpio Records with Group "B".

The self-titled Kak LP was minor-league San Francisco psychedelic rock colored by a lot of influence from bigger Bay Area bands, particularly Moby Grape; the vocal harmonies and curling guitar work on tracks like "Disbelievin'" and "Everything's Changing" in particular sounded like a more pedestrianMoby Grape. There were also more distant echoes of Quicksilver Messenger Service (in the guitar work) and the Grateful Dead (in faint traces of country-blues-rock). Kak were best, and least derivative, at their quietest, as on the gentle country-tinged rocker "I've Got Time, " the good-time wistful psych-folk-rock of "Lemonade Kid, " and the harpsichord-decorated ballad "Flowing By, " which was as derivative of Donovan as much of their other songs were of Moby Grape.

Kak's album was barely promoted and sold little. It didn't help that the band played less than a dozen shows before breaking up in early 1969, Damrell having already quit prior to the split. Yoder did a single for Epic and then joined Blue Cheer. The Kak album eventually became a pricey collector's item, and was reissued on CD by Big Beat (with the new title Kak-ola) in 1999 with plenty of bonus cuts, including previously unreleased acoustic demos and Yodersolo tracks from the late '60s.

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