The 1968 self-titled album by Touch – featuring Don Gallucci (ex-Kingsmen organist and future Stooges producer) – was a wild and glorious explosion of keyboard-led proto-prog that foreshadowed later styles of Yes, The Nice and Chicago, reeling through jazz, blues, silent-film music, doomy organ figures and tricky time changes aplenty.
The track Down At Circe’s Place – a thumping piano riff that collapses into a well of psychedelic oddness – started off a suite that enveloped the album’s second half.
Don Gallucci
Keyboards, vocals
Bruce Hauser
Bass, vocals
John Bordonaro
Drums, vocals
Jeff Hawks
Vocals
Vern Kjellberg (Joey Newman)
Guitar, vocals
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