Farm | The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun (Soundtrack) | Album

Farm "The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun" (1970)

LP (NEW) - Vinyl, Sundazed, US, 2016, LP 5519, 090771551917, Orange Vinyl, Incl. Photo Insert

The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun is the sole recording by cult US group Farm, which was made as the soundtrack to the 1970 Seorge Greenough directed surf movie of the same name. The movie was a groundbreaking project in the history of sports footage, with filmmaker George Greenough unencumbered by any commercial pressures and with the means, and ideas, to use underwater camera gear that had not been previously used. Greenough's two late '60s cinematic efforts were the maximum effect, in the effort of communicating the feel of surfing to the viewer. In choosing who to soundtrack his debut masterpiece, Greenough went with the most dynamic band to record surf instrumentals in the early '60s, Capitol Records artists The Dragons, who released "Troll" in 1964 which was a step above the reverbed guitar "Pipeline" clones of the early '60s. Keyboard riffs meshed fluidly with bass harmonica, sophisticated percussion, snap drums, and a fuzzy guitar ripping through bass lines. By 1969 The Dragons had progressed within a world ready for jazz improvisation in rock. Some of them had toured with the "Good Vibrations" era Beach Boys. Two of the three Dragon brothers then combined with other local Californian psych-rock musicians to record under the band name Farm to record what was to become one of the all-time classic surf movie soundtracks, and a work that, musically, stands alone.

Artist Website: surfertoday.com/the-innermost-limits-of-pure-fun

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