Continuing with our reissue campaign of the Toby Robinson’s Pyramid label catalogue, now it’s the time for Temple. Probably the most “rock” sounding of all the Pyramyd titles, Temple were an ad-hoc outfit born out of several late night sessions at Dierks Studios (where Toby was working at that time), involving local friends of Toby and other musicians from adjoining studios, among them Zeus B. Held (Birth Control).
Temple played a kind of heavy, dark psychedelic krautrock with ahead of its time proto-Goth vibe. Loud guitars, Hammond, Mini-Moog, Mellotron, distorted & echoing vocals, effects…
RIYL: AMON DÜÜL II, HAWKWIND, BIRTH CONTROL, POPOL VUH, ASH RA TEMPEL, EMTIDI…
*24-bit remaster from the original tapes.
