ARS NOVA -S/T- Original US Stereo LP - Prog Psych Folk Rock Elektra

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ARS NOVA

Ars Nova

Original US Stereo LP released on Elektra Records in 1968.
Gatefold 'Unipak' sleeve.

EKS-74020-A   AL   /   EKS-74020-B   AL

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Ars Nova was a rock/classical hybrid that formed in New York in 1967 around students of the Mannes College of Music. The band initially comprised Wyatt Day on guitar, keyboards, and vocals; Jon Pierson on trombone and vocals; Bill Folwell on trumpet and vocals; Jonathan Raskin on bass, vocals, and guitar; Giovanni Papalia on guitar, and Maury Baker on percussion. Elektra producer Paul A. Rothchild took credit for the discovery, and after signing them, called them "the most exciting thing since the Doors." The band released its debut album in April 1968 and was profiled in the June 28, 1968, issue of LIFE magazine. The album failed to chart, and the band reorganized around Day, Pierson, guitarist Sam Brown, trumpeter Jimmy Owens, bassist Art Koenig, and drummer Joseph Hunt. There was a second album, Sunshine & Shadows, in June 1969.

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Ars Nova's first release was intriguing eclectic psychedelic rock with a classical influence, as well as some unusual instrumentation in the bass trombone of lead singer Jon Pierson and the trumpet and string bass of Bill Folwell. There are haunting tunes with a folk-rock base and a faint Renaissance ballad melodic influence, jaunty narratives with a vaudevillian air that bear the mark of then-recent albums such as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and harder-rocking period psychedelic tracks with a bent for unpredictable bittersweet progressions and vocal harmonies. It's unusual and attractive. The album benefits from Elektra's high-class production, here handled by Paul Rothchild of Doors fame. "Fields of People" might be the most famous song here due to getting covered in an elongated treatment by the Move.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Pavan For My Lady
General Clover Ends A War
Entracte: Le Messe Notre Dame
And How Am I To Know
Entracte: Dancer
Album In Your Mind
Zarathustra (Instrumental)

Side Two

Fields Of People
Entracte: Vita De L'Alma Mia
Automatic Love
Entracte: A Thought
I Wrapped Her In Ribbons (After Ibiza)
Entracte: Ada Wulff November 12, 1956
Song To The City
Entracte: Aquel Cabellero
March Of The Mad Duke's Circus

Released on 'Elektra Records' in 1968

Catalogue No. EKS-74020

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface marks)

Sleeve is in VG condition (general storage wear / some creasing)

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1 LP £4.15
2 LP £4.15
3 LP £6.50
4 LP £6.50
5 LP £6.50
6 LP £6.50

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2 LP £8.15
3 LP £9.35
4 LP £10.45
5 LP £11.60
6 LP £12.40

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3 LP £14.05
4 LP £15.50
5 LP £17.00
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2 LP £12.35
3 LP £14.80
4 LP £16.45
5 LP £18.25
6 LP £19.70

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