Pool-Pah

Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate 50 years of the best album you've never heard: Pool-Pah's The Flasher.  In 1973, the sexual revolution was on, streaking was taking college campuses by storm, and Deep Throat was edging pornography ever closer to the mainstream.  Against this backdrop, a talented New York band with the unlikely moniker of Pool-Pah teamed with up-and-coming singer-songwriter, musician, and arranger Rupert Holmes to write and record an unforgettably far-out soundtrack blending rock, psychedelia, jazz, prog, pop, and electronica.  It had - and has - to be heard to be believed.  Now, you can hear it.  The Flasher began life as the soundtrack to a porno flick called Forbidden Under Censorship of the King (get it?) but transcended its origins with music recalling The Bee Gees and The Beatles one minute, and Superfly and Shaft the next - with BS&T-style horns and futuristic ARP synth sounds.  The whole wild and woolly story of The Flasher is told on this deluxe reissue.  The four-page insert has Joe Marchese's liner notes (based on new interviews with lead singer Lenie Colacino and Rupert Holmes) plus rare and previously unpublished photos. The LP, pressed on "night sky" vinyl, has been sourced from the pristine tapes housed in the Universal Music vaults, and the whole package has been designed by John Sellards.