How did we miss this?

Via destination-OUT, I just learned for the first time about guitarist Ray Russell.

His early 1970s album Rites & Rituals is a gem of the era, an odd concoction of distorted solos, freakbeat swagger, and punchy swing. Most of the songs are extended multi-part suites, confidently segueing between various modes and styles. Russell brings the noise and the strum, along with compositional deployment of horns, drifting sections of lovely stasis, and outright hard swinging pomp.

Check out the song Sarana that's posted there.