It's rare to find an album from the early 1970s that has never been officially reissued on CD. A case in point is the legendary 1971 underground milestone from COMPANY CAINE Ð A Product Of A Broken Reality. This highly regarded artefact is one of the last albums from the glory days of the Australian progressive-psych scene to attain a new lease of life in the modern digital age. On Digitally Remastered CD for the first time, Aztec presents a Classic Aussie Rock album brimming with the superior and adventurous sounds of Psych-rock, Blues and Avant-jazz. The band recorded A Product Of A Broken Reality at TCS Studios, Melbourne in July 1971 and it was originally issued on the Generation label in November 1971. Only a rock scene as rich and diverse as that which proliferated in Australia at the time could have produced an album of such varied moods and exploratory styles. Alongside the likes of celebrated entities such as Spectrum, Kahvas Jute and Blackfeather, the name Company Caine continues to fire the imagination of progressive-psych aficionados around the world. Original and rare vinyl copies of A Product Of A Broken Reality are highly sought after and can fetch high prices on the international collector market. The story of Company Caine is based around delightfully eccentric singer / song writer Gulliver Smith and nimble fingered guitarist Russell Smith who formed the band in March 1970. Gulliver had started his career in the 1960s as Little Gulliver, recording R&B singles for the In label. Russell came out of the Melbourne blues scene and alongside Gulliver and the other important early member, multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Noone, set out to create a band that played purely original material. Several line-ups came and went before the band broke up at the end of 1972. The album included the sprightly single Trixie Stonewall's Wayward Home For Young Women, with the rest of the album ranging from pastoral moments such as It's Up To You and Woman With Reason to the spacey sounds of the 10-minute Symptoms and on to the head-spinning, Avant-jazz leanings of the unhinged The Day Superman Got Busted. Included on the CD are six bonus tracks: the 1972 single Dear Carolyn/Now I'm Together and live sessions from 1971. Packaged in a deluxe 6 panel Digi-Pak & digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, with a 20 page colour booklet and liner notes by Ian McFarlane, it's a must-have for fans of Classic Aussie Rock.