Moosknukkl Groovband - ST

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Run for Your Life	05:04
	2	Take Your Time	07:53
	3	Muskoka Springtime	05:09

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Rip-Off Jack	07:12
	2	Nahi Bole	07:57
	3	That Ain't All	09:03

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Moosknukkl Groovband’s lone LP (Spiegelei, 1973) represents a brief but telling late-stage convergence of musicians whose core relationships had been formed a decade earlier in Toronto with Tommy Graham and The Big Town Boys.

The project centered on Tommy (Tom) Graham, one of the defining figures of the early Toronto Sound, whose work with The Big Town Boys in the mid-1960s placed him at the heart of the city’s television, club, and touring circuits. Graham’s long-standing collaboration with Mike Lewis, a principal arranger and multi-instrumentalist in the Big Town Boys lineup, remained the creative throughline into the 1970s.

Lewis left Toronto in the mid-1960s to study composition in Munich, where he became involved with experimental musicians around Michael Ranta and producer Conny Plank. By 1971 he had recorded the LP Wuschel with Plank.

That same year, Lewis received an invitation to compose music for the cultural program of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, a commission that also included studio time to make a record. While visiting Canada, he contacted Graham, drummer Peter “Josh” Collins (Brother Josh), and bassist John Morton, all of whom had circulated through the Big Town Boys orbit, and invited them to Hamburg to work with Plank.

Sessions took place in 1972 at Star Musik and Windrose–Dumont–Time Studios in Hamburg. During the Olympics, the quartet performed publicly as Moosknukkl Groovband within the official cultural program before Graham, Morton, and Collins returned to Canada later that year.
-Robert Williston

Musicians
Mike Lewis: vocals, keyboards, percussion
Tommy Graham: vocals, guitar, percussion
John Morton: bass, vocals
Brother Josh: drums, tabla, percussion, vocals

Songwriting
Written by Michael Lewis

Production
Produced by Conny Plank and Michael Lewis
Engineered by Conny Plank
Recorded and mixed during summer 1972 at STAR-music-studio and WINDROSE DUMONT-TIME-studios, both in Hamburg, Germany

Notes
Gatefold sleeve, 3,000 pressed

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