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"First-ever official reissue of Essex-based band Dear Mr. Time's highly-regarded and much sought-after psych/prog concept album Grandfather. Heavily influenced by the Moody Blues and early King Crimson, Grandfather was recorded in mid-1970 and issued by the tiny Square Records in February 1971, but was only pressed in a total quantity of 1000 copies. This definitive release is taken from the original master tapes, and adds five superb home demos recorded around the same time as the album by guitarist and chief songwriter Chris Baker. It tells the group's story for the first time, and includes many previously unpublished photographs." Includes a 16-page booklet.
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"After relocating to the outskirts of London in the summer of 1967, Cornwall band The Onyx went on to record a clutch of late sixties singles that are now highly regarded by psychedelic pop fans. A collection of studio demos recorded in late 1967 as they prepared to sign to a major label, Kaleidoscope of Colours features early versions of subsequent single tracks (including 'So Sad Inside' and 'You've Gotta Be With Me,' the latter with songwriter Guy Fletcher on lead vocals), the band's original recording of subsequent She Trinity B-side 'Climb That Tree' and a host of previously unissued day-glo psychedelic pop offerings, including the extraordinary, heavily phased title song." Includes a 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes and some particularly great pictures of the band in their nerd-years.
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"In 1969, Angel Pavement linchpin Alfie Shepherd took time out from the group's hectic schedule to demo a concept album that he'd written around his favorite childhood story, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows. Sadly Angel Pavement broke up before they'd had a chance to record the work, which was duly left to gather dust. Forty years later, Alfie's homemade recording of the proposed album finally gains a long-overdue release. Taken from the original mastertapes, and bolstered by a clutch of similarly unissued home demos from the same timeframe, The Wind In The Willows is now revealed as one of the great lost projects of the late 1960s, a thrilling psychedelic pop song-suite bursting with melodic invention, ambitious vocal arrangements and the boundless spirit of adventure that characterized the era."
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"Although harmony-based British soft rock act Unicorn didn't release their superb debut album, Uphill All The Way, until mid-1971, the core of the band had been playing together, principally as The Late, for several years. Taken from previously unreleased acetates and studio tapes, Songs From The Family Tree charts the group's hitherto undocumented progress from 1967 to 1969 as they slowly evolved from their original, Hollies-inspired psychedelic pop direction to create a more individual identity. With comprehensive liner notes, quotes and numerous photographs, Songs From The Family Tree is an essential item for Unicorn fans and admirers of late '60ss British pop alike." Includes a previously unreleased alternative mix.
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Subtitled: A Collection of Demos 1967-1969. "West Coast Consortium's late 1960s 45s were sophisticated, lavishly-orchestrated, close harmony pop affairs. At heart, though, they were a garage psychedelic pop band -- as can be heard on Mr. Umbrella Man, which assembles the pick of the four demo albums they made between 1967 and 1969. Now heard for the first time, this astonishing cache of recordings reveal that, left to their own devices, West Coast Consortium ditched the brass and strings arrangements of their singles in favor of Mellotrons, fuzz guitars, Vox Continental organs and wah-wah pedals, while hitherto unreleased nuggets like 'Santa Monica Bay,' 'Aimie (Sing Your Song For Me)' and the woozy 'Mr. Umbrella Man' show a parallel debt to the lo-fi, DIY approach of the Beach Boys circa Smiley Smile and Friends."
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"72 minute, 32 track anthology of this UK band's cache of demos and acetates stretching back to the roots of rock'n'roll and ending up in the dying embers of the British beat boom. Includes alternate versions of their four Parlophone sides, ten previously-unreleased instrumental gems and three unissued 1962 vocal recordings produced by Joe Meek." "What a truly astonishing release... this really is a wonderful CD." -- Pipeline fanzine.
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