Another middle-eastern LP/band worth checking out is Israel's KAVARET (espec. their Poogy Tales LP from 1973). Period politics-meets-conceptual Brechtian (or more probably, Python-esque) humour, all dished out in a three-guitar psychedelic fuzz-feast. Some tracks are a little poppy, but at their best they remind me off the 1st Caravan LP travelling east.