Purple Image - Purple Image Artist_Brian Eno Poetry & Realism

Poetry & Realism

these recordings — including the voice of NYX’s Sian O’Gorman

and the sad/sweet naïveté of that optimism in the face of self-sabotage

in an ambient style

almost exactly one year after their self-titled debut

Purple Image - Purple Image Artist_Brian Eno Poetry & RealismIn the midst of the musical revolution of 1968, a 24 year old kid named Warren Adams put together an eight piece band by the name of Purple Image. When most African American bands in the Cleveland, Ohio area turned to R&B and soul music, Purple Image played mind bending psychedelic funk rock. The band blasted out a thumping psychedelic sound much like the post Hendrix black rock of their Detroit counterparts Death and Black Merda. As the band grew in