Beat/Pop Rock/Psychedelic Pop: Les Sauterelles - The Columbia Recordings 1965-1967 (2002 Jaxx Records)

A Swiss '60s band that have sometimes been mistakenly identified as a British group due to their 1968 single "Dream Machine," a quite catchy and enjoyable facsimile of British flower pop with high harmonies, psychedelic lyrics, and driving guitars. The band had actually been recording since 1965, and established themselves as one of Switzerland's best and most popular groups. That's a status that isn't conferred upon most, Switzerland being a small country. Much of their first LP (1966) was filled with covers of popular rock hits. These were interpreted, however, with a brash energy that makes the record stand out above the scores of similar covers-oriented albums produced around the globe during the era. "Dream Machine" was a more original effort, and an album from 1968, View to Heaven, also had a more pronounced folk and psychedelic feel than their earliest outings. Les Sauterelles continued recording all the way into the early '70s, and several of their songs (notably "Dream Machine") surfaced on collector-oriented reissues in the '80s.(allmusic.com)

The ''Les Sauterelles'' was an outstanding non-British band in the sixties that produced great songs from beat to pop and psychedelic pop. Both their cover versions of well-known hits and their own compositions showed that the band was one of the best bands of popular music in Europe (except UK) in the sixties and could even compete with the outstanding Dutch bands.(Frank) (Thanks Christian :-) )

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