various artists - A Strange Light From The East: Eastern Influenced Western Music 1965-72 / 3CD set

The 1965-1972 period saw Western music transformed through the integration of Eastern music and philosophy and raga influences. Iconic tracks by The Byrds, The Yardbirds, and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band pioneered the fusion of modal jazz, Indian classical music, and psychedelic rock. These experiments laid the foundations for progressive rock, proto-punk, and world music, permanently altering the technical and creative landscape of modern music. The dawn of the British folk revival broke in 1965 when Bert Jansch's "folk-baroque" finger style revolutionized tradition, providing the early morning light for a burgeoning psychedelic scene which, by 1972 had traveled from folk clubs to the high-concept landscapes of progressive rock, exemplified by the Eastern-tinged sitar-guitar on Yes's 'Siberian Khatru'. Western artists utilized Eastern forms as a new musical bedrock. The influence even reached into the shadows, as The Stooges traded garage-rock for the ritualistic intensity of 'We Will Fall'. From the "space-age" pop of The Riot Squad to the "Indo-Afro" experiments of The 40 Watt Banana, this era of cross-pollination forever altered the horizons of Western musicians.

- Disc 1 -
1 Bert Jansch - Anji
2 The Yardbirds W/ Jeff
3 Beck - Heart Full of Soul
4 The Byrds - Eight Miles High
5 The Riot Squad - I Take It That We're Through
6 The Cyrkle - Turn Down Day
7 The Mirage - Tomorrow Never Knows
8 The Misunderstood - I Unseen (Ibc Acetate) -The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East West
9 Tuesday's Children -Strange Light from the East
10 Big Jim Sullivan - She's Leaving Home
11 Dantalion's Chariot -This Island
12 The Flower Pot -Wantin' Ain't Gettin'
13 The Zodiac - Libra - the Flower Child
14 Kaleidoscope - Egyptian Gardens
15 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band -Buddha
16 The Yardbirds W/ Jimmy
17 Page - White Summer
18 The Fugs - Hare Krishna
19 The Misty Wizards - It's Love
20 Hi Revving Tongues - (The Psychedelic) Illusion
21 Spirit - Girl in Your Eye
22 The Lemon Pipers - I Need Someone (The Painter)
23 The Twilights -Devendra
24 Chad & Jeremy -Sunstroke
25 Boeing Duveen & the Beautiful Soup - Which Dreamed It
- Disc 2 -
1 Spencer Davis Group -After Tea
2 July - the Way (Unreleased Version)
3 Tales of Justine - Sitting
4 On a Blunestone
5 East of Eden - Waterways (Demo)
6 Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Air
7 Tomorrow - Real Life Peppermint Dream
8 The Rascals - Sattva
9 Incredible String Band -Koeeoaddi There
10 Pretty Things - Bracelets
11 Merrell Fankhauser &
12 HMS Bounty - a Visit with Ashiya
13 The Ceyleib People -Menyatt Dyl Com
14 The Nirvana Sitar & String Group - Head
15 The Stooges - We Will Fall
16 Blossom Toes - Just
17 Above My Hobby Horse's Head
18 Humble Pie - the Light of Love
19 Pentangle - Once I Had a Sweetheart
20 Walter Horton & Martin Stone - Netti Netti
- Disc 3 -
1 Shocking Blue - Love Buzz
2 Clark-Hutchinson -Impromptu in 'E' Minor
3 Lynne Pike - Given Time
4 Jeremy Harmer - Tuesday P.M
5 Blonde on Blonde -Spinning Wheel
6 The Hubbels - Hippy
7 Dippy Funky Monkey Double Bubble Sitar Man
8 Third Ear Band - Ghettoraga (Edit)
9 John Renbourn -Lamento Di Tristan
10 The Fox - Butterfly
11 Meic Stevens - Yorric
12 Ananda Shankar -Jumpin' Jack Flash
13 Nitai Dasgupta - Baithatano
14 Abacus - Song Forbrunhilde
15 The 40 Watt Banana -Nirvana
16 Pandit Kanwar Sain
17 Trikha - Folk Piece in Kahrwa
18 Wizz Jones - American Land
19 Yes - Siberian Khatru