OHO - Okinawa album to be reissued by Vintage/Rockadrome
Date: Thursday 16 April, 2009
News Summary:
Vintage Records (a subsidiary of independent San Antonio based label Rockadrome Records) has agreed to release, for the first time on CD, OHO's classic, independently produced, underground 1974 psychedelic/progressive LP, Okinawa.
News Content:
OHO Guitarist Jay Graboski is working closely with the Vintage label on a new digital remastering of this classic material that is now 35 years old. Jay has been a member of this ever transmogrifying ensemble since late 1973 when rehearsals for the recording of this 31 song double LP began, and he will be overseeing this new mastering and the extensive liner notes and lyrics that will accompany the release. Panned and derided by local music critics at the time, Okinawa has since gradually gained in stature among record collectors and progressive music fans worldwide, now considered by some to be a minor progressive masterpiece featuring music akin to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, early Alice Cooper, Genesis and Wild Man Fischer. Germany's Hanf magazine called Okinawa "Sgt. Pepper's for the advanced listener."
Previously re-released in 1995 on German record label, Little Wing of Refugees, as a 4 10" limited edition vinyl set in a metal film canister accompanied by a 30 page booklet of lyrics, credits, photos and anecdotes, the new Vintage re-release will be the first time this music is officially made available on Compact Disc. Stay tuned for this long awaited re-release later in 2009.
