BLONDE ON BLONDE (taking their name from BOB DYLAN's 1966 album) were formed in Newport, South Wales in 1967.
In 1968 the band moved to London to give out concerts, and their publicity led them to be signed for Pye Record label in late 1968. A single "All Day All Night / Country Life" was released in November of the same year. Then was recorded their debut long player ablum "Contrasts", which was issued by Pye in mid-1969 and produced by Barry Murray.
Musically the group was exploring the areas pioneered by 1967 psychedelic acts like PINK FLOYD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and CREAM, but in a much larger scale of influences than them, having a more wider musical palette than the bands influenced which them, offering much to the listener open to their style, with slightly varying production quality. Their music is a dance between contrasts of free impressionism paired with predefined melodic more carefully constructed elements, varying from streetwise side to high levels of spirituality, from folk tones, classical guitar runs and mantra like instrumental runs, bursting with oriental musical influences, introducing cosmic drones running hypnotically on varying time scales, and all this paired with hard rock tones of heavy psychedelic guitar similar to JIMI HENDRIX and 1960's work of PETE TOWNSHED.

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