Format: ½ Speed Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP Original Factory Sealed

This Auction is for a MFSL LP was pressed in Japan before Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs eventually pressed their Lps in the United States. The LP was Half-Speed Mastered with the Ortofon Cutting System from the Original Stereo Master Tapes. This MFSL LP has a special static free, dust free inner sleeve and heavy-duty protective packaging. This LP has been Out of Print for 30+ years and a bonafide audiophiles collectible.

 This Limited Edition FACTORY SEALED LP is an audiophile collectors item that simply gives the feeling of being directly in the studio with the artist. Used nothing but the finest lacquers. The more you play the LP, your stylus will polish the grooves and actually improve the sonics of your MFSL LP. This recording is mastered from the Original Session Tapes. This Out of Print LP has all Liner Notes, Photos, and Artwork from the Original LP faithfully recreated.

With 1971's having left poised quivering on the brink of what friend and foe acknowledged was the peak of the band's achievement, was never going to be an easy album to make. Drummer was already shifting restlessly against 's increasingly mystic/mystifying lyricism, while contemporary reports of the recording sessions depicted bandmate , too, as little more than an observer to the vast tapestry that , , and were creating. For it was vast. comprised just three tracks, the epic "And You and I" and "Siberian Khatru," plus a side-long title track that represented the musical, lyrical, and sonic culmination of all that had worked toward over the past five years. would make the Top Five on both sides of the Atlantic, dispatch on the longest tour of its career so far and, if hindsight be the guide, launch the band on a downward swing that only disintegration, rebuilding, and a savage change of direction would cure. The latter, however, was still to come. In 1972, was a flawless masterpiece.

18:50

A1   The Solid Time Of Change

A2   Total Mass Retain

A3   I Get Up I Get Down

A4   Seasons Of Man

And You And I      10:09

B1a Cord Of Life

B1b Eclipse

B1c  The Preacher The Teacher

B1d The Apocalypse

B2   Siberian Khatru       8:57