Orange vinyl. Originally released in 1966. Fahey’s never recorded an album that was more thoroughly of its moment. From the groovy flute and twangy sitar accompaniment to the backwards guitar this Birthday Party is a charmingly trippy 60s time capsule. But it isn’t a two dimensional one. The album gains immense depth from the tension between his sweeping fingerpicked melodies and discordant string-battery. It’s the audible battle between yearned for rose colored luminescence and ankle blistering hellhound darkness that enables this record to transcend its hippie dreaminess.

Side 1:
1. The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party
2. Knotts Berry Farm Molly
Side 2:
3. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
4. Guitar Excursions Into The Unknown
5. 900 Miles
6. Sail Away Ladies
7. Oh Come. Oh Come Emanuel