Various - Sonic 1971-1972: Bloodsucking & Maneating Tracks from the Sonic Vault CD

WELLINGTON; Circa 1971-72. For just over a year Sonic label and studio owner Alan Dunnage and record producer Ed Morris aka O’Strange became a magnet for the Wellington and lower North Island Underground music scene. The labels output was small and included only eight singles and no albums. The legacy of those recordings is a time capsule from a fleeting moment in time when Sixties counter-culture effortlessly merged with the diverse and eclectic Seventies rock scene. PLAY IT LOUD!!

“Alan had been operating his studio since the early fifties when he recorded Johnny Cooper & His Range Riders. He loved the new Rock sounds that were being generated by a new breed of musician. Being a lot older than the musos and quite content to record and engineer, he would use me to produce the bulk of the sessions as I was younger and could relate to this new crop of young musos”....Ed Morris aka O’Strange

Track listing...

1 Littlejohn (2)– Bloodsucker
2 Benjamin Gardner– Maneater
3 Blitz Street Fuzz– Beautiful You
4 Bluebrick (2)– Pollution
5 Fat Gypsy– I'll Still Be Laughing
6 Rogers-Battersby Legend– Bullfrog
7 Blitz Street Fuzz– Hard Times
8 Stille Ripple– Loner Postponer
9 Spann (2)– Undertaker
10 Fat Gypsy– Shotgun On His Arm
11 Sons & Lovers (6)– Make Us Free
12 Littlejohn (2)– Have You Heard A Man Cry
13 Stille Ripple– My Uncle Ray
14 Benjamin Gardner– Jamie
15 Littlejohn (2)– Nice And Easy
16 Rogers-Battersby Legend– On A Nice Wave
17 Spann (2)– Hot Fires Of Hell
18 Sons & Lovers (6)– Easy To Be Hard
19 Littlejohn (2)– Why Did You Leave Me?
20 Littlejohn (2)– Everybody Knows
21 Littlejohn (2)– Social Smoker
Sons and Lovers - Make Us Free
Littlejohn - Have You Heard a Man Cry