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Klaatu Magentalane Vinyl LP - Capitol ST-6487 Sealed Import - First Pressing (1981) Half-Speed Mastered
Condition: New, Still Factory Sealed. Has a hype sticker and a small cutout hole in corner. 
Magentalane was the fifth and final album of new material by the Canadian rock group Klaatu. For their final album, Klaatu regained complete artistic control over the music, marking a return to their familiar psychedelic pop sound, after their previous album Endangered Species was essentially a product of Capitol Records’ attempt to commercialise the band, and therefore featured outside musicians playing most of the instruments heard on the record.
Track 5, "December Dream," was written as a tribute to John Lennon, who had been killed 10 months prior to the album's release. At the end of the track, the lyrics "the dream is over" are said, likely as a reference to the same lines at the end of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band track "God."
Tracklist
Side One A Million Miles Away3:45 The Love Of A Woman3:30 Blue Smoke4:38 I Don't Wanna Go Home2:50 December Dream4:06
Side Two Magentalane2:33 At The End Of The Rainbow3:25 Mrs. Toad's Cookies3:07 Maybe I'll Move To Mars5:00 Magentalane (...It Feels So Good)0:45
Klaatu John Woloschuk - vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, vibraphone, electric sitar, ocarina, glockenspiel Dee Long - vocals, electric guitar, mandolin, slide guitar, Korg synthesizer Terry Draper - drums, percussion, Polymoog synthesizer, trombone, tambourine, vocals
Additional musicians John Johnson - saxophone solo on "The Love of a Woman" Memo Acevedo - conga on "The Love of a Woman" Adele, Paul and Dick Armin - strings on "The Love of a Woman", "December Dream" and "Maybe I'll Move to Mars" George Bertok - piano on "Blue Smoke" Lorne Grossman - tympani and chimes on "December Dream" and "Maybe I'll Move to Mars" Paul Irvine - trumpet and trombone on "December Dream" and "Maybe I'll Move to Mars Jill Vogel, Anna Draper and Linda Davies - backing vocals on "Mrs. Toad's Cookies" Frank Watt (drums), Ken Wannamaker (bass), Dave Kennedy (guitar) on At The End of the Rainbow.
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