Surf Dog (Ada)
2008
Seeds
About This Album
With Seeds, Surfdog Records reissues the first three studio albums by San Francisco jam band Tea Leaf Green, discs the group self-released during the first half of the 2000s. The self-titled debut album is a song-based collection dominated by singer/keyboard player Trevor Garrod, who sings in his light tenor of his love of the Bay Area and California in general, as well as making many references to the ingestion of intoxicants. This is party music, in other words, but the style, an eclectic mixture of '70s influences, is expressed in relatively tame and tentative playing. One noticeable antecedent is Spirit, and Garrod in particular has some of the jazz-rock fusion style of that band's keyboard player John Locke. There always seems to be a tension in the studio albums by a jam band between the playing of actual compositions and just playing, and on Tea Leaf Green's second album, Midnight on the Reservoir, the jamming wins out. The first three tracks, "Reservoir," "Sex in the '70s," and "Panspermic De-Evolution," last more than 24 minutes between them, and the last two are practically instrumentals, their lyrics consisting of little more than the titles chanted a few times.
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