Fallout Rec. 
Terence : An Eye For An Ear (CAN/US,1969,re.2008)**°'
This is a slightly confusing album by a songwriter called Terry Black who seems to have started his career crooning on a local Vancouver music show, and who had six top 40 hits in Canada around 1965, becoming Canada's first and biggest teen sensation, with an LP in 1966 called Black Plague (now reissued on Unidisc), before recording this strange album partly in Toronto and New York. From his earliest period he comes over as a soul-rocking powerfully crooning singer, with heavy pop brass arrangements on several tracks, staying with his singing between crooning, soul and blues-rock. So it is weird that the second track, “Rap” already directs to heavy bluesrock, with great electric guitar solos. “Fool Amid the Traffic” can be considered as a psych track, featuring doomy organ, fuzzed electric guitar, and some funky organ, which tends to deliver his serious message. This message sounds as if partly inspired by a inflicted Christian who wants to deliver a message to the world, in a priest-like way, saying how shocked he is that things are governed by war and not peace or something like that, especially on “Exiles”. (-Is he posing with armoury before the university?-). “Priscilla” has a much lighter feeling. But “Does it feel better now” which has spoken word telling about “the emperor’s new clothes” is really very experimental, with a soprano classical voice mixed with reverb bass, and high notes of electronica, before making a last song conclusion, with big lunged singing one more last time.
