USA were Joseph Byrd (synthesizer, vocals), Dorothy Moskowitz (vocals), Gordon Maron (electronics, violin, vocals), Craig Woodson (dr, percussion) and edge Forbes (bass). All had studied acoustics, composition and music psychology, followers were Cages and modern music and had no Rock Background - and it shows. As they used the electronic sounds of Synthezisers (no MOOG!), Never was just grandstanding. Stylistically they integrated all possible styles of circus music in the first song, over gentle psychedelic songs (Cloudsong) towards aggressive rock, often all in one song. The matching very cool voice of Dorothy Moskovitz or the use of the violin.
In contrast to the English band they departed not from in a fantasy world. That's very nice in the song "I will not leave my wife sugar .." to hear: a husband makes his lover on the phone clear why he can not leave his wife, partly because the beloved as a schoolchild has no time to the three children and the Terrier to worry - backed cynicism and pure musical with vaudeville elements Syntheziserklängen or wind sounds at the end. Or where there was a love song to Che Guevara, a song about prostitutes in New York in the heyday of the hippies. "Where is Yesterday" begins with a church hymn, before ending in polyphonic singing, accompanied by percussion and elektronics.
Sonically much better than the Edsel issue, particularly the rehearsals of the original band (Track 18-20) and the alternate versions and outtakes of known occupation of interest. The Title 15 - 17 are photographs of Ms. Moskowitz with his own band, which emerged after the end of the United States. If this item is also clear why the band broke up after less than a year. Did Byrd are harder and more intellectual, Moskowitz preferred rather a style of that time coming into fashion women like Joni Mitchell. Here it shows compared to the US a much quieter musical taste, catchy little "rock numbers" are presented. Additional in-band friction and music metallic differences led then to the end of the US.
"Osamu's birthday" is the electronic variant of Japanese folklore, including backwards recorded vocal track that is played back to back in the opposite direction to a "Japanese" to create impression - montoton, threatening and yet fragile. "No Love To Give" is a rocking piece as "Coming Down", while the "You can never come down" comes along like the title as a completely wacky Jefferson Airplane song, the only piece of tape, the similarities to the SAN FRANCISCO -Sound has.
The last three tracks, the original line-up even without the violin - in accordance with sound, these songs through the organ Agnellos still psychedelic and floydiger.
