Description:
O.W.L.`s Of Wondrous Legends is a previously unknown album of deeply impressionistic baroque rock, chamber folk, and soft psych tunes recovered from the dustbins of history. To the few who have heard it, it has earned comparisons to Tim Buckley, Pearls Before Swine, and 60s British prog-folk. O.W.L was founded in 1968 on Chicagos north side by Stephen Titra. A founding member of the beloved midwestern hippie jam band Mountain Bus, Titra left that band just as their Dead-inspired, bluesy jams gained serious regional traction in order to fully devote himself to the inward looking, singular vision of O.W.L. Of Wondrous Legends was recorded at the behest of an enthusiastic A & R rep at Chicagos Universal Studios in 1971 with a remarkable number of musicians. A handful of test pressings were produced and circulated, but due to the usual pitfalls of changing times, the album was scrapped. The passage of time only further helped ensure the albums place in near total obscurity until a copy of one of the test pressings was unearthed in a Chicago junk shop in 2004. Following several years of collaborative efforts on this lost epic, Of Wondrous Legends now sees its first public release. (Locust)
