Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill (1971)

Cottonwoodhill is one of the trippiest records ever made, capturing the intensity of the peak LSD experience far more successfully than any Timothy Leary recording, and even today, when many such documents from that era can sound silly and dated, Brainticket's fascinating debut still holds hallucinogenic potency. Rather than the laid-back mellow groove of some psychedelic music from this era, Cottonwoodhill has a hyper energy in the frenetic organ riff and Muir's voice, like an acid trip out of control, while at times the various sound effects take over completely.

On the original records inside, it was issued with a Warning of "After Listening to this Record, your friends may not know you anymore" and "Only listen to this once a day. Your brain might be destroyed!"


1. "Black Sand" (Ron Bryer, Joel Vandroogenbroeck) – 4:05
2. "Places of Light" (Bryer, Dawn Muir, Vandroogenroeck) – 4:05
3. "Brainticket, Pt. 1" (Bryer, Hellmuth Kolbe, Muir, Vandroogenbroeck) – 8:21
4. "Brainticket, Pt. 1: Conclusion" (Bryer, Kolbe, Muir, Vandroogenbroeck) – 4:36
5. "Brainticket, Pt. 2" (Bryer, Kolbe, Muir, Vandroogenbroeck) – 13:13
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Source of the review: allmusic.com