Embryo

Opal

Get Back Records GET711 1970/2010 12" 33rpm (Italy)

EMBRYO's "Opal" is a pure Krautrock masterpiece and certainly one of the more influential albums too that contributed to the genre. EMBRYO's band leader Christian Burchard (drummer/percussionist) was at the time hanging out with the AMON DUUL commune of freaks who had a symbiotic influence on each others music. Also joining Burchard on this debut album was John Kelly the future guitarist for TEN YEARS AFTER who gets lots of opportunity to add his fine fret work. "Opal" is predominantly an instrumental album with few voices and lyrics. I love Edgar Hoffman huge electric-violin and sax work here which really brings home the fusion of jazz and psych elements that they were intending to explore. Best way to maybe describe this album would be to imagine a sax playing fusion- era Miles Davis a la BITCHES BREW, with a touch of CAN and AMON DUUL II tossed into the equation. The album is a drastic fusion of rock, jazz, blues, soul and psychedelia and is a true milestone in the genre of psychedelic progressive rock.

Tracklist
A1 Opal 
A2 You Don't Know What's Happening 
A3 Revolution 
A4 Glockenspiel 
B1 Got No Time 
B2 Call 
B3 End Of Soul 
B4 People From Out The Space 

Licensed From – Materiali Sonori
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Abraxas Srl

Guest, Bongos – Holger Trülsch
Guest, Cello [Motocelle] – Roberto Detrèe
Guest, Vocals – Bettsy Alleh
Performer [Embryo] – Christian Burchard, Edgar Hofmann, John Kelly, Ralph Fischer

The original LP had a balloon in the middle.

Produced under license from Materiali Sonori, Italy
℗ 2010 Abraxas srl
 

Vinyl is NEAR MINT in a paper inner sleeve (original printed picture light card inner sleeve included, NEAR MINT) in a hard card picture inner sleeve in NEAR MINT condition in a plastic protector sleeve

A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
Jeff Green, e-sales

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