LIFEBLUD 'Esse Quam Videri' LP (UK, Seelie Court, Catalogue #SCLP006) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2020 Seelie Court  label LP edition of BEYOND RARE 1970 Acetate (a grand total of 3 copies created) of UK Folk driven Progressive Rock recordings, entitled here Esse Quam Videri, by Lifeblud. This Seelie Court edition includes a gatefold cover with interior liner notes and photos.

Mission statement from the Seelie Court label:

"British acetate and private pressing LPs dating from 1965-78, the most valuable LPs that exist, manufactured in Sainted Albion on the legendary EMI presses where all the original Beatles LPs were pressed. We use as many environmental principles as possible, eg no shrinkwrap. Textured gatefold sleeves. All have restored audio striking a balance between cleaning up often unique yet battered original recordings and retaining the power and authenticity of the original sounds without heavy compression. Restoration by Reynolds, at craftsman level. Priced as competitively as possible to allow street level access to thousand pound prog behemoths."

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(NOTE: BRAND NEW/NON-FACTORY SEALED IMPORT ITEM!)

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION OF 500 COPIES ONLY!)

“Ultra-rare £3000+ serene folk inflected progressive rock. Cherry Red used one song from a poor condition acetate on a recent compilation. Three acetate copies were made in 1970, and Seelie Court used the only surviving near mint LP that's owned by an ex-member as source with great audio. The songs 'Oakenshade' and 'Waxing Of The Moon' are poetic genius, using a guitar with a damaged bridge to create a sitar like drone, the vocals have an air of resigned melancholia, and the lyrics connect with a mystical understanding of and reverence for nature. Issued with the full cooperation of all the band. Lifeblud later explored a heavier sound that sometimes hits the level of High Tide. Housed in a gatefold sleeve with band history, reproducing the original typed lyric sheets, and repro of the acetate labels.” 
Here’s a glowing Discogs review: “Lifeblud was conceived as a 'poetry rock' band and recorded this fab acetate lp in 1970, the vocal is serene and melancholic, and the music folky prog, the lyrics are about the majesty of nature and often speak of environmental issues, one line describing mankind as a fungus spreading across the planet. what sounds like a sitar is a guitar with a damaged bridge that created an accidental drone which they use to great effect. 3 copies of the acetate were made at trusound, later sky, later srt. 2 survive, one with hans pokora in trashed condition, the ither in australia. its thusly phenomenally rare. highlights here are oakenshade, ravens wing and the astonishingly beautiful "waxing of the moon" , one of the deepest, moodiest and most evocative tracks of the era. lifeblud recorded a 2nd acetate lp in 1970 also at trusound, but its been lost. luckily studio tapes of 1971 sessions survive and will be released in 2021, capturing some of their finest songs, and the one surviving track from their heaviest phase, an extended folk rock song awash with high tide like fuzz and distortion.  a live tape recorded on a hand held tape recorder from the back of a hall in 1971 also exists and is being painstakingly restored for possible release. an exceptionally beautiful band who have remained unreleased for half a century. but hard to define, coming from an incredible string band, donovan, dando shaft direction but with a prog rock feel."

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

A1 Of Hatred's Hand
A2 The Journey Home
A3 Tenement
A4 Eclipse
A5 Oakenshade
B1 So Be It
B2 Rescue
B3 Raven's Wing
B4 Bridge
B5 Waxing Of The Moon

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