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Charles Stepney and Richard Evans: Soulful Symphonies Of Psychedelia
Charles Stepney and Richard Evans: Soulful Symphonies Of Psychedelia
The duo were two of the greatest musical minds of the 60s and 70s, but remain little known today.
Published on Rotary Connection s debut album was just one of the albums that Charles Stepney worked on in the 1960s
Imagine a psychedelic music that didn’t expand your musical mind with volume and effects, but elevated your consciousness with melody and cleverly arranged layers of instruments. A music that sought to reflect the new-age thinking of the hippie era. A groove with a jazzy edge, and orchestras that ventured into the infrared and ultraviolet extremes of pop’s spectrum. A music of angles, culture, questions, elegance and love. If you tried to create it, it might seem impossible. But it happened, thanks to Richard Evans and Charles Stepney.