VA - Sonic 1971-1972

WELLINGTON; Circa 1971-72. For just over a year Sonic label and studio owner Alan Dunnage and record producer Ed Morris aka Girvin/Eddie O’Strange became a magnet for the Wellington and lower North Island Underground music scene. The labels output was small. The legacy of those recordings is a time capsule from a fleeting moment in time when Sixties counter-culture effortlessly merged with the diverse and eclectic Seventies rock scene.

“Alan had been operating his studio since the early fifties when he recorded Johnny Cooper & His Range Riders. He loved the new Rock sounds that were being generated by a new breed of musician. Being a lot older than the musos and quite content to record and engineer, he would use me to produce the bulk of the sessions as I was younger and could relate to this new crop of young musos”- Ed Morris

Tracklist

Littlejohn - Bloodsucker
Benjamin Gardner - Maneate
Blitz Street Fuzz - Beautiful You
Bluebrick - Pollution
Fat Gypsy - I’ll Still Be Laughing
Rogers-Battersby Legend - Bullfrog
Blitz Street Fuzz - Hard Times
Stille Ripple - Loner Postponer
Spann - Undertaker
Fat Gypsy - Shotgun on His Arm
Sons and Lovers - Make Us Free
Littlejohn - Have You Heard a Man Cry