This was one of those late 60s psychedelic bands that just, despite their hippy blend of sonic instruments (i.e. loud organs and guitars) mixed with pastiche and Grateful Dead-ish farmhouse anthems, couldn't cut the paisley mustard. They recorded this one album and called it quits, but a few years later Stanley Kubrick employed 2 tracks from this album "Overture to the Sun" and "Lighthouse Keeper" for the film "A Clockwork Orange." The soundtrack is where I first heard both of these tracks of course, yet no credit is given to Sunforest, just the respective writers of the song (i.e. "Lighthouse Keeper" is by Erika Elgen on the record sleeve). After a little detective work (read: its 4am and I've got nothing better to do) I figured out that these songs came from this album AND....that's about it. The album itself is all over the place, with "jams" alongside strange Arthurian themes, and pop-baroque arrangements (there's even a children's song sounding track about a bee named "Mr. Bumble"). While its not anywhere on par with the kind of psychedelia their much more popular peers were making at the time, its an interesting listen and, oddly enough, given the forays bands like the Flaming Lips have made into these kinds of territories, it doesn't sound too terrifically dated. (Also: highly recommend the Clockwork Orange soundtrack...moog covers of classical music = who can say no?).
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