Sold Date: February 19, 2018
Start Date: February 9, 2018
Final Price: £576.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 3
Seller Feedback: 59568
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Genuine Factory Acetate LP Album

Artist & Title : Chris Thompson - Untitled

Catalogue Number : Apple Records Custom Recording

Overall Grade : VG

This is probably a one of a kind LP. We bought it as part of a huge stock purchase about twenty years ago, when a well known record shop in Soho closed down. Any Acetate LP is pretty exciting, but an Apple one, especially so.

For most of those years we had no idea what it was, but recently rediscovered, the wonder of shazam finally allowed us to identify the artist. There is quite a bit of sitar in some of the tracks, so I'd always assumed it was George Harrison related. In fact it is by New Zealand folk singer, Chris Thompson. His one 1972 LP release is a highly sought after Acid Folk collectible, released on Village Thing records and limited to only 101 copies. But, while some of the tracks are the same, this is not that album.

Shazam managed to match three of the eleven tracks on the LP, Back in the City, Young Lust and Hugo Spellman. There are two spoken word tracks too. It's quite a mysterious album. 

I can find no link on google between the Beatles Apple label and Chris, but for an acetate to exist, they must have known and liked him to press a sample on their label. Perhaps George Harrison is on the sitar, I just don't know. Chris also played with Whiz Jones and Davey Graham who could well be on there too. 

Condition wise is pretty typical for an acetate, photos of the vinyl below. Noisy in places, but no skips or jumps.

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In a nice twist to this story, I have now been contacted by Chris Thompson in New Zealand. He has confirmed that this is indeed a 'one of a kind' album. Quote from Chris himself: 

"I left the masters at E.M.I in Middlesex and never had the opportunity to collect them as I returned to New Zealand shortly after.  I remember it as being a particularly interesting album, kind of a 'concept' or 'experimental' album that I edited together in an attic in Dublin in the early seventies. It forms a link between my well known debut for Village Thing Records in 1973 and 'Echoes from the Pit', the first L.P. I made upon my return to Auckland." 

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