Anaconda: Sympathy For The Madman 1969

 

In 1969 the leader of British psychedelic legends ARCADIUM created a project exploring the dark edges of progressive folk rock, together with two male and two female whose names are lost in a temporal pea-souper. No recordings were thought to have survived (Miguel Sergides lost all his

belongings in a house fire in the 80s) until the discovery of the sole Anaconda acetate LP in 2019. Overnight it became the second most valuable folk rock LP in the world (after Easton Baveret's Suicide Notes). Its owner has flatly rejected a €7000 (over $8000) offer. The LP is a revelation that reveals a Seygian underworld of British folk rock that links Anaconda to Tea & Symphony, Forest, Lifeblud, Heriom, and Comus. Predating Comus, Anaconda has a very similar sound using violins and flutes but is lace with aching melancholia and themes of alienation. It is a genuine lost masterpiece of folk rock, one of three works of genius by Sergides: Arcadium, Anaconda and The Savanna Silver Band.
                     

MIGUEL SERGIDES

Anaconda - Sympathy For The Madman CD is a psychedelic folk masterpiece, recorded by Arcadium's Miguel Sergideshis. CD edition is limited to 300 copies. This recently rediscovered masterpiece of psychedelic folk melancholia is being hailed as one of the greatest folk rock lps of all time. The recording was made in late 1969 in John Kongos flat. It's a pitty that the only negative thing, is that the production of this great album sucks being very blured and a little bit distorted.
                    

ANACONDA Sympathy For the Madman (2020 UK 5-track vinyl LP on Seelie Court, a new archival label home to ultra rare British titles dating between 1965-78, all sourced from a private collection.Supposedly just one acetate LP exists for this record previously, valued at Ł7000+ & lost since 1969, the album is confirmed to be a post Arcadium project [vocals by Miguel Sergides] & a missing piece of British psychedelic folk rock on wax [think Comus!].
                  

JOHN CONGOS

CD only subsidiary of Seelie Court , limited 300 copies editions in card Gatefold sleeves, all issued with co operation of the bands/artists, under contract. Mastered by Reynolds Mastering, pressed at The Vinyl Factory, England. Post Arcadium psychedelic folk masterpiece, lost since 1969, just one original acetate LP exists,valued at £7000+, the LP has an intense pagan mood and deals with themes of alienation, notably in Outsider, it sounds very similar to Comus with flutes, violins but replaces the insanity of Comus with dark folked out melancholia. Short at 24 mins. Quite possibly the finest prog-folk lp ever made, with songwriting and lead vocal by Miguel Sergides who crafted the psych LP masterpiece by Arcadium. Accomplished and meticulous prog folk genius.
                                    

Anaconda – Sympathy For The Madman
Label: Seelie Court Digital – scd 001, Seelie Court – scd 001
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue 2021
Country: UK
Released: 1969    
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Folk Rock, Psychedelic

TRACKS

                           

01. It's Not Me       3:42
02. Riding Alone   4:20
03. Who Are We?       5:36
04. Outrider       3:40
05. Sympathy For The Madman       4:20

LINE - UP

                  

Flute – Alistair 
Performer [Performed By] – Anaconda 
Violin, Guitar – Clive Timperley
Vocals, Percussion – Frances
Vocals, Percussion - Kim
Vocals, Twelve-String Guitar – Miguel Sergides
    

NOTES

Recorded By – John Kongos
Written-By – Miguel Sergides (Real GREEK Name: Michalakis Stelios Sergides)

Flac Size: 152 MB

                           

ARCADIUM was a British psychedelic group who released one album in 1969. The band was led by Miguel Sergides who was joined by John Albert Parker, Graham Best, Allen Ellwood and Robert Ellwood.

ARCADIUM on Urban Aspirines HERE