Obsession... obsession... obsession...

One of my favorite albums of the moment is Bully's Obsession comp, which collects a lot of obscure, international '60s and 70s psych. Mike Davis of NYC's Academy Records compiled the set. Whenever I've shopped at Academy, it's seemed like the store was super picked-over; I guess I know why now.

The selections are mostly from Latin America (5 from Brazil, 2 from Peru, 2 from Uruguay and 1 from Argentina), but there are also 3 tracks from Turkey and 2 from India. Unlike, say, the similarly-themed but always disappointing Love, Peace and Poetry comps, all of the selections are good to great.

The track I've posted is kind of an exotic cousin to the Creations Unlimited's "Chrystal Illusion" (which appeared a on two cool, long-deleted comps, the Rustler's Because You're Funky and Dante Carfagna's Chains & Black Exhaust), so I've posted that, too.


Atomic Forest: "Intro/Obsession '77" (?, 197?/Bully, 2007)


Creations Unlimited: "Chrystal Illusion" (Soul Kitchen, 1972)