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Item#: 954595

Item: Mandel, Harvey - Cristo Redentor - LP

Artist: Harvey Mandel
Title: Cristo Redentor
Music: Rock and Pop
Year: 1968
Format: 2LP
Number Of Items: 2
Condition: This item is New
Label: Philips
Gram weight of vinyl: 220

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album. Sleeve Notes By John Tobler, April . It has been over twenty years since Harvey Mandel's Cristo Rendentor was recorded, yet for a surprisingly large number of people, it has remained one of those rare albums that has survived innumerable record collection rationalisations.Cristo Rendentor is probably so highly rated because, unlike the vast majority of albums being released at the time, elements of the then very fashionable psychedelia were noticeable, and there were definitive tinges of what became celebrated during this era as underground music. This was really a cult item for discerning record buyers in , and the major reason for such a status appears to be that it included a memorable cover of a familiar tune entitled Wade In The Water .Harvey's reading certainly still seems extra-terrestrial compared to the million selling, piano dominated jazzy hit version by the Ramsey Lewis Trio and was considerably more interesting to rock fans than an easy listening US hit version by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Half a minute of a guitar master like Mandel playing Wade In The Water was enough for many seekers after rock nirvana to invest in Cristo Rendentor, and that was the first thing most people in Britain had heard of him. Then news arrived that he had replaced Henry Vestine as the lead guitarist of legendary Californian R&B band Canned Heat, and it was clear that his talents had been noticed by more than just a few musicians. The story goes that Mandel was actually in the dressing room of the Fillmore West Auditorium when Vestine announced that he was leaving. When Harvey was asked if he wanted to play guitar with Canned Heat that night, he said Sure . His third gig with the band was the Woodstock Festival! Part of the group's mystique revolved around their use of nicknames for each other: singer Bob Hite was known as The Bear due to his physical resemblance to such an animal, slide guitarist/vocalist Al Wilson was Blind Owl due to his myopia, Vestine was known as Sun for reasons which are no longer clear.Mandel's Canned Heat epithet was Snake , probably because that was the title of one of his tunes on Cristo Rendentor. He stayed with Canned Heat for a year or so, working on three albums by the group, the most significant of which was the 's Future Blues, which included the group's only UK Top 3 hit, their rocking version of Wilbert Harrison's Let Work Together .At that point, Mandel and Canned Heat bass player Larry Taylor along with legendary violinist Don Sugarcane Harris were recruited by John Mayall for ana adventurous album, titled USA Union, Mandel also appeared on another significant Mayall album, Back To The Roots, on which Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor also guested, but seemingly left thereafter to resume a solo career which had been punctuated by these offers he obviously couldn't refuse. He subsequently released several more solo albums during the first half of the 's, before to all intent and purposes, disappearing from view as far as recording went. The last known album by Harvey Mandel was a Best Of, released on the US Janus label. There are other session credits which accrued to him in the mid-'s, such as his appearance on one track of Love's Reel to Real album and perhaps more significantly, his participation in Black and Blue, the LP from the Rolling Stones. When Mick Taylor left the Stones at the end of , Jagger & Co auditioned for a replacement by cutting tracks with various guitarists, among them Mandel and the man who eventually got the job, Ronnie Wood. Cristo Rendentor became a immortal legend, perhaps because of Harvey Mandel's perceived role as a heavy friend in rock's stratosphere.Cristo Rendentor was the one essential Harvey Mandel album without which no serious rock collection was complete. However, little documented detail exists to illuminate the genius of Cristo Rendentor. It was apparently recorded with a supporting cast of twenty musiciansin five studios located in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville and the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. Using supposition rather than knowledge, it might be assumed that most of the backing tracks were cut in Nashville- consider song titles such as Bradley's Barn (the famous Nashville studio) and Nashville 1 AM - by a group of notable Nashville pickers, including Kenny Buttery on drums, Pete Drake on steel guitar, Bob Moore on bass and Hargus Pig Robbins on piano- why Robbins is referred to as The Sniffler on the album's credits hardly bears consideration. Having established a firm foundation for the tracks, Mandel probably returned to California, where he seems to be based for much of his career, and invited local musician friends to contribute to the album. The only well known names among these musicians as far as the world in general is concerned are keyboard player Barry Goldberg of the Electric Flag, who made several solo albums on which Mandel appeared and another album on which Bob Dylan guested, R&B harmonica star Charlie Musselwhite, (also on several Goldberg albums) and another keyboard player, the late British R&B/Jazz Rock pioneer, Grahame Bond, whose Mighty Grahame Bond album Mandel also played on during .

Tracklisting:
A1 Wade In The Water (7:58
A2 Lights Out (4:53
A3 Bradley's Barn (3:18
A4 You Can't Tell Me (4:2 0
A5 Nashville 1 A.M. (3:39
B1 Cristo Redentor (3:48
B2 Before Six (6:3 0
B3 The Lark (4:4 0
B4 Snake (3:49
B5 Long Wait (3:39)

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