The Mixtures - Stompin' At The Rainbow LP 8" to free jazz overblowing

to free jazz overblowing

Groves’ close-miked voice delivers a fragmentary litany of closely-observed suburban aperçus

involving bad people and dark spirits ('Story of Jhon' which has a vocal contribution from Simon Joyner)

At 7 tracks long and clocking in under 20 mins

PASSING reclaims hardcore tropes

The Mixtures - Stompin' At The Rainbow LP 8" to free jazz overblowingIt all happened at the Rainbow Gardens in Pomona, California, 1960, as THE MIXTURES, mighty kings of the West Coast's Eastside dance hall scene, rocked and ruled the house. As the movement for integration that began in Mississippi and Alabama was taking shape nationwide, it was not only the South that was segregated. In the Southern California of the Fifties, non white races were more allied, though it was rare you'd find them mixed in a band. As the