Search - Devil's Anvil :: Hard Rock from the Middle East

Digitally remastered edition of this rare 1967 album from the New York rockers. The Devil's Anvil got together in the burgeoning hip and happening mid-'60s Greenwich Village scene, playing Middle Eastern influenced music at Folk cafes and Rock clubs. Eventually they teamed up with Felix Pappalardi (producer of Cream's Disraeli Gears, later to play in Mountain). He began playing bass with the band and eventually scored the group a record deal. The Devil's Anvil really never caught on as a recording act, in part because of the timing of their debut album's release: The very same day that Hard Rock From The Middle East hit the stores, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War broke out, and not a single radio station anywhere would go near the album! Contained herein is absolutely kick ass world-influenced Rock, with impassioned Arabic vocals, electric oud, bouzouki, tamboura, durbeki as well as fuzz guitar, bass and drums. A unique and happening album. Rev-Ola.