“Yes-influenced basement progressive from high school kid multi-instrumentalist?” Um…yes!?
Thanks to Swan Fungus reader “Viagra Falls” for this contribution. Today completes our week-long foray into the world of private press releases. We started with “Todd,” a teenager writing intensely heartfelt love songs, and are ending the week with Jack Intveld, another teenager who was obsessed with hard progressive rock, and recorded “I’ll Sing Of Life” in 1978. The original album was pressed in a run of just 200 copies, all of which included an insert. Excellent synthesizers, some far-out effects, an ear for good hard rock riffs, and a definite affinity for progressive music is audible in these eight songs. Like Eddie Callahan, Intveld was a bit more advanced technologically and as a musician than some of the other folks we’ve heard from this week.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this little themed week of blog posts as well as the music that I’ve shared. If I’ve turned even one of you onto something cool and new, I’ll consider this venture to have been worthwhile. Each one of these recordings is special. There is a realness and an integrity present in some of these albums — even if the artist is untrained — that one rarely finds in any modern releases, no matter how far from the mainstream they stray. For that, all of these folks (Todd Warthen, Jack Intveld, Eddie Callahan, K.C. Humphrey, Jon Turnbow, Dave Bixby and Stephen David Heitkotter) deserve the utmost amount of respect for living their dreams and recording their songs. Kudos to them all, and I hope if any of them have read any of the posts here this week, they have felt as proud of their work as I have to share it.
And, of course, thanks to “Viagra Falls” for tracking a lot of this shit down. Now get to work on finding that Jerry Solomon album, dude!
Jack Intveld
I’ll Sing Of Life
MegaUpload DL Link
Tracklist:
01. Never Mind
02. Through Your Window
03. Circles
04. Stargazer
05. Te Lake (Edgar Allan Poe)
06. To My Friends
07. Phantasies
08. Soaring
