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01. Crystalline - Another Sunset, Another Dawn
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02. Crystalline - Peace of Mind
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03. Crystalline - A House Is Not A Motel
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04. Crystalline - Here From There
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05. Crystalline - Crimson Nights
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ARTIST
CRYSTALLINE
TITLE
Axe Music
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
GUERSSEN RECORDS
CATALOG #
GUESS 205LP
GUESS 205LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
1/20/2023
LP version. First reissued by Guerssen Records in 2012 and out of print for many years, here's a new, improved repress of this UK psych holy grail.
Axe
(known also as
Axe Music
and finally
Crystalline
by the time they recorded their rare acetate) were an obscure British psych band led by acid-rock guitar player extraordinaire
Tony Barford
and graced by
Vivienne Jones
ethereal vocals. The band hailed from Northampton (home also of their mates
Dark
of
Dark Round The Edges
fame). In 1970, they recorded a demo album of which only 12 copies were pressed as a demo acetate. Here's a straight reissue of this legendary artifact, as the previous "reissue" on the Kissing Spell label from 1993 and credited to Axe was altered without the band consent and included newly edited tracks, artificial echo/phasing effects, altered song titles... Here you'll find the acetate recording on its pure form: 100% unadulterated heavy psych and acid-rock sounds full of raw, fuzzed-out guitars and dreamy female vocals. Four impressive original songs plus a long, psyched to the max cover of
Love
's "A House Is Not A Motel" which has to be heard to be believed. Carefully remastered from an original acetate copy in 24-bit. Unfortunately, no masters survived and no 100% clean copies are known to exist of the original acetates, but you'll get the best result for the possibilities. New artwork (the original acetate came in blank sleeve); insert with unseen pictures and liner notes by
Paul Cross
(Sweet Floral Albion). "...
This is possibly the finest example of British underground psychedelia
..." --
Richard Falk
, Galactic Ramble. "...
Axe did not make a lot of music, but they made some phenomenal music. Some of the best ever to emerge from the swamp of heavy British psychedelia, certainly some of the rarest
" --Paul Cross (Sweet Floral Albion). Rated with the maximum rarity in
Hans Pokora
's
5001 Record Collector Dreams
book.
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