The term "psychedelic" may be a cheap, grossly overused term in eBay descriptions, but to me it's not a genre onto itself. Most often when people refer to music as "psych" it's short-hand for psychedelic rock, mostly from the ’60s. In reality it's a template that can be affixed to various genres: rock, rap, jazz, even classical music. Here's an interesting novelty: a psychedelic easy listening record. Lorber was (is?) a producer/arranger who came up working on Gene Pitney and Leiber/Stoller records, and helped birth the Lovin' Spoonful/Mamas & Papas forerunner The Mugwumps. On this record he busts out the sitars (played by Vinnie Bell) and tablas, inspired by a commercial for a bank he wrote the music for and presumably the Beatles, and creates a healthy chunk of cash-in kitsch.
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