Souls Of Inspyration - The Souls Of Inspyration (Reissue) (1970/2000)

The only album of the Canadian group created in the town of Red Lake (Ontario). Don Wilson and his boyfriend John Maciejewski already at the age of ten gathered a group and played at school parties. In 1967, he and Marc Paradis traveled to Canada until they decided to stay in Sherbrooke (Quebec). Here, together with local musician Raymond Cloutier, they organized “The Souls Of Inspyration” and decided to devote themselves to a musical career. Pretty soon the band became popular in Quebec. “Vanilla Fudge” and “Tommy James And The Shondells” did not consider it shameful to perform with them on the same stage. In 1969, the guys took part in the Canadian competition of young groups, held in Montreal and won first place. The winners were given the opportunity to record an album for free and make a two-week trip to Expo 70 in Japan and perform concerts in the Canadian pavilion. Several record companies showed interest in the group, a contract was signed with producers Chuck Williams and Don Grashey, who organized a recording session for them. In 1970, “Columbia” released the album “The Souls Of Inspyration”, and the group went to Osaka, where they were warmly received by visitors to the exhibition. However, after returning to Canada, they were forced to leave Quebec, where there was an explosive situation caused by the actions of the separatist Quebec Independence Front. And, in accordance with the Latin wording “When guns speak, muses are silent,” the group broke up.