Max Ochs Releases New Record

Old and New Obscurities for your record collection.

By Brian Creech

Max Ochs, cousin of Texas born protest singer Phil Ochs, recorded several guitar pieces, protest songs, and spoken word poems throughout the lat 1960s.  Specializing in primitive America music, label Tompkins Square, has gathered together Max's old and new recordings and will release Hooray for Another Day on November 18^th, 2008. 

The album features several spoken word pieces and poems from the protest artist, his most famous recent composition, "Imaginational Anthem," and a new take on John Fahey's arrangement of "In Christ There Is No East or West."    Also included is the poem "Phil," dedicated to Max's late cousin. 

With the rise of freak-folk over the past few years, Max has seen some late career resurgence, including a featured piece on NPR a few years ago.  The self-effacing guitarist rarely promotes himself, but bloggers have called the album "a gnarly east-meets-west vibe mixed in with some mind-bending atmospherics and explorations."

Groovy.

Track List:

1. Hooray For Another Day

2. Ain't Nobody High Raga

3. Crows 4. Victor's Rag

5. An Apple Place in Annapolis

6. Imaginational Anthem

7. In Christ There Is No East or West

8. Muse Sick

9. Oncones

10. Phil

11. Raga Puti

12. Stranger