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                  TOP CLEAN 1970 ORIGINAL....

                      """PROGRESSIVE ROCK"""

          

                  

                       

                .......  EGG  .......

                

              

                              

              

\                                                   UK  - DERAM/NOVA  - SDN 14

 

RARE ::: TOP Final Collection Copy ::: "NOVA"/"DERAM" FIRST PRESS

SO HARD TO FIND - especially a very first printing on the Nova/Deram organge UK label... Getting hard to find at all, here a definite final collection copy  ... 1970 first pressing with a LAMINATED dark cover that is usually with shelf wear ... here a survivor!!!

Egg's FIRST album is an astonishingly assured piece of work, especially when you realise that the three members of the band were all under 20 when it was released. They had emerged from the ashes of Uriel, a band that was formed at the City of London school and went on to ARZARCHEL. Keyboard player Dave Stewart was originally the guitarist, but switched to organ when he realised that the young Steve Hillage (for it was he) was a better player. Hillage then left for university, the remaining trio renamed themselves Egg and built up a solid reputation on the underground circuit. It's an essential piece of the Canterbury scene jigsaw and still stands up as a strong release today.

Like the early Soft Machine and Aardvark, Egg was an organ led trio with a particularly English sense of humour to go with the serious musical chops, although where Soft Machine's work had a jazz flavour Egg were into quoting the classics - with fuzz box organ effects no less including wild jamming injections. The main composer was Mont Campbell, although the group shared the writing credits (Stewart later said that Campbell was responsible for 95% of Egg's music). This album, like their follow up, had one side of shorter pieces and a side long epic. The first half is eccentric songs and jams. A particular highlight is a complex weaver as a hip reading of JS Bach's Fugue in D minor, which is closer to Jethro Tull's "Bouree" from the Stand Up album and more than occasionally an overblown bombast of The Nice or ELP's take on classical music. Mont Campbell's voice has a similar timbre to Richard Sinclair's and the lyrics have a similar tongue in cheek quality. That, plus Dave Stewart's distinctive keyboard work, gives songs like While Growing My Hair a kind of pre- Hatfield and the North feel. The second half of the album is a rather more serious affair. The first movement features a very nifty quote from Hall of the Mountain King, while Blane moves into the kind of Avant Prog territory that Dave Stewart would explore later. Side two delivers for the prog enthusiasts, a 22:26 minute long epic with lots of both classical themes and more psychedelic adventures. It´s a great joy to be listening to Dave Stewart's gushing organ works that were highly innovative at the time.

Side 1
1. Bulb (0:09)
2. While Growing my Hair (3:53)
3. I will be Absorbed (5:10)
4. Fugue in D Minor (2:46)
5. They laughed when I sat down at the Piano... (1:17)
6. The song of McGuillicudie the Pusillanimous (or don't worry James, your socks are hanging in the coal cellar with Thomas) (5:07)
7. Boilk (1:00)
Side 2
8. Symphony No 2 (22:26)
a) Movement 1 (5:47)
b) Movement 2 (6:20)
c) Blane (5:28)
d) Movement 4 (4:51)

 

 

CONDITION: The Cover: very fragile laminated UK cover is "EX" (excellent) in quite nice sape considerig the 44+ years...stiff and thick cardboard cover ...in fact there are NO spit seams, no bends, no writing and 4 sharp corners ...an nice collection copy!

The Vinyl: all clean and shiny cross both sides, TOP M- looks and plays like a final collection copy and has clean UK NOVA/DERAM labels  

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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