Bobby Brown’s debut is a difficult to classify outsider opus that has become a sort of grail for rare psych collectors (it’s featured in the highly renowned Acid Archives guide to underground psych, folk, and outsider sounds). A manifestation of a singular star child, Brown built and plays all 50 homemade instruments, which he combined into a large one-man-band piece that looks like something out of the Swiss Family Robinson. Funded, produced, and released by Bobby himself, the album is uncompromising, bold, and intensely spiritual. The vision behind “the Universal One Man Orchestra” is perhaps best summed up in Bobby’s own liner notes:
“The story: an original contribution to the field of Religion & Science-based on physics-not yet discovered by other humanoids. More revolutionary than Einstein’s revelations of Newtonian physics – the application of this physics will perhaps [in fact] lead to the most significant change in the history of humanity (plus, total religious unity)”
– Cole Kinnear
Recommended – A2 My Hawaiian Home
A1 I Must Be Born
A2 My Hawaiian Home
A3 Mama Knows Boys A Rambler
A4 Mambo Che Chay
A5 Oneness With The Forest
B1 Tiny Wind Of Shanol
B2 Bray
B3 Axonda
B4 Goin’On Through
B5 Preparation Dimension Of Heaven
Artwork – Thor Berendt
Engineer – Michael Boshears
Photography By – James Randcleave
Written-By, Arranged By, Producer, Vocals, Harp [Irish], Koto, Drums, Kalimba, Flute, Sitar, Bass – Bobby Brown