PRESENT FROM NANCY

Supersister is a Dutch progressive group led by Robert Jan Stips (who would later also play in Golden Earring and the Nits). Often compared to early Soft Machine, the band actually shared common roots citing Frank Zappa as their main influence. The band started as a high school coverband and transformed in a psychedelic pop group in the late sixties. When their main songwriter, Rob Douw, left the band it was quickly transformed into a progressive jazz rock group, but not before recording the (unexpected) psychedelic pophit 'She Was Naked'. 'Present From Nancy' is a high paced record with Stips playing unique patterns on his slightly distorted organ, drowsy vocals, melodic jazz flute, thumbing bass-lines and always fast-paced drums by Marco Vrolijk. The band has its own light-hearted psychedelic edge to it. In combination with the jazzy swing vibe and the experimental song formats the record is likely to impress fans of Canterbury type prog. The album plays non-stop, but one has to admit that on the second halve of the second side the band is slowing things down considerably with the spacey organ loops of 'Dona Nobis Pacem'. The production is nowhere near perfect, yet it does captures a charming & fun young band on fire, at the turn of decade. Supersister is an amazing little group that made some amazing little albums that have regained some well deserved popularity among collectors with the rise of the internet in the 21th century.