Before There Was...

Before There Was..., never before released, was recorded in 1968 in Toronto, Canada. Lynn David Newton, the founding member of Time studied in the same class as Jim Cuomo from The Spoils Of War in Urbana, Illinois. Along with David Rosenboom and two other musicians, Before There Was... is a well-composed, well-played musical masterpiece that is both touching and twisted. Heavily influenced by the British Underground, these are all original songs, replete with harpsichord, flutes, percussion, horns, many effects and lots of heavy fuzz guitar and a singer who sounds like Robert Wyatt in the early '70s. A year later, Time moved to New York and became Think Dog (also released by Shadoks Music). Imagine Mia Farrow in the movie Rosemary's Baby sitting in her window and watching the New York streets below while it's raining outside -- that's what this music feels like.