The Tangerine Zoo, by The Tangerine Zoo

The Tangerine Zoo

by The Tangerine Zoo

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SPLATTER PRESSING LIMITED TO 100!

This is a special online only variant that begins shipping the first week of December. A non-splatter version will be available later in 2024.

- LP cut by Kevin Gray from the Mainstream Masters!
- LP pressed in the USA at Citizen for optimal sound!
- Finally, a legitimate pressing back in the bins!

This is part of Sundazed's deep exploration into the Mainstream Records label that begins in 2024! We painstakingly (ok, we enjoyed it, but whatever) went through all variations of masters to pick which we thought were best in each instance, some mono, and some stereo. Sometimes they got the stereo right in the 60s and it was an highly enjoyable experience. Other times, not so much.

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1.	Gloria 06:09	buy track
2.	Trip To The Zoo 03:53	buy track
3.	Please Don't Set Me Free 03:52	buy track
4.	Nature's Children 03:53	buy track
5.	The Flight 04:29	buy track
6.	Mommy and Daddy 01:45	buy track
7.	Symphonic Psyche 03:56	buy track
8.	Crystalescent Heaven 04:51	buy track
9.	One More Heartache 02:41	buy track

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Let’s take a trip to the zoo, in mono! Labeled as a part of the Bosstown Sound, these Boston psych rockers take listeners along for the ride - their freak-out arrangement of “Gloria” and a slew of outtasite originals showcase their intricate psych pop sound. Got your lava lamp bubbling yet?

Originally from Swansea, MA, the Tangerine Zoo formed just six months before writing and recording their first album. Once they turned down RCA and Atlantic for Mainstream, the group agreed to do one single and an album, one that’d take just 13 hours to complete. Inspired by Vanilla Fudge and the hippie scene in Greenwich Village, the band’s acid rock captured the same psychedelic sound bands like Orpheus, Ultimate Spinach, and Beacon Street Union were creating in Boston.

After a promotional tour, the band went on to make just one other album before dissolving at the end of the ‘60s, leaving a true Bosstown artyfact behind.

“Tangerine Zoo may be an orange happening, and have to be seen to be believed. They make the claim that ‘your eyes and ears will throw a party for your mind.’”

– Fall River, Mass. Herald News

Feb. 13, 1968

Includes:

GLORIA • TRIP TO THE ZOO • PLEASE DON’T SET ME FREE • NATURE’S CHILDREN • THE FLIGHT • MOMMY AND DADDY • SYMPHONIC PSYCHE • CRYSTALESCENT HEAVEN • ONE MORE HEARTACHE

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released December 1, 2023

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