Artist: Company Caine Album: A Product Of A Broken Reality Label: Generation Records – GELP 004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Australia Released: 1971 Genre: Prog Rock Audio codec: FLAC | lossless

Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1970, psychedelic / blues band 1970-72 & 1975 (often referred to as Co Caine).

Tracklist: A1. Symptoms A2. Trixie Stonewall's Wayward Home For Young Women A3. The Cell A4. Theme For Vishdungarius A5. Woman With Reason B1. Simple Song Of Spring B2. The Day Superman Got Busted B3. It's Up To You B4. Go See The Gypsy B5. The Last Scene 11 - Woman With Reason [ bonus GTK 1971] 12 - I Knew She Was A Clicker [Bonus GTK 1972] 13 - 1967 (Bonus G.T.K Sessions) 14 - Flip, Flop And Fly (Bonus G.T.K Sessions) 15 - The Cell (Bonus G.T.K Sessions) 16 - The Day Superman Got Busted (Bonus G.T.K Sessions) 17 - Dear Carolyn (Bonus Single) 18 - Now I'm Together (Bonus Single)

Personnel: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals – Russell Smith (4) Bass – Arthur Eizenberg Drums – John McInerny Piano [Fender], Organ [Hammond] – Ian Mawson Saxophone [Acoustic & Electric], Piano, Organ [Hammond] – Jeremy Noone Vocals, Lyrics By – Gulliver Smith

It's rare to find an album from the early 1970s that has never been officially reissued on CD; a case in point is the legendary 1971 underground milestone from Company Caine - A Product Of A Broken Reality. This highly regarded artifact is one of the last albums from the glory days of the Australian progressive-psych scene to attain a new lease of life in the modern digital age. Alongside the likes of celebrated entities such as Spectrum, Kahvas Jute and Blackfeather, the name Company Caine continues to fire the imagination of progressive-psych aficionados around the world; original vinyl copies are highly sought after and can fetch high prices indeed. The story of Company Caine is based around delightfully eccentric singer/songwriter Gulliver Smith and nimble-fingered guitarist Russell Smith, who formed the band in March 1970. Several line-ups came and went before the band broke up at the end of 1972. A Product Of A Broken Reality included the sprightly single 'Trixie Stonewall's Wayward Home For Young Women', with the rest of the album ranging from pastoral moments such as 'It's Up To You' and 'Woman With Reason' to the spacey sounds of the 10-minute 'Symptoms' and on to the head-spinning avant-jazz leanings of the unhinged 'The Day Superman Got Busted'. Included on the CD are six bonus tracks: the 1972 single 'Dear Carolyn' / 'Now I'm Together' and live sessions from 1971, digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, with colour booklet and liner notes by noted Australian Rock writer Ian McFarlane