CATHERINE & ALPS "STANDING SOUL" Psychedelic Underground Prog Amon Duul THRUST

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           Rare - TOP COPY - 1971 ORIGINAL           
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    = Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes =
                  "Ame Debout"                             ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..                              CDN - (red/silver) PHILIPS - 6332 017



TOP COPY!!!
Rare in any condition, never turning up ==> here's a clean original 1970 pressing of the great cult underground album, no upgrade necessary!
By far superior 1971 Canadian pressing over the French issue, containing solid playback pressed directly from the French metal masters and this rarity offers a far better cover design - completely different from the French artifact.

.............dig these grooves::::

Beauty and raw chaos amid toxic-exotic flavors intermingle in these early-1970s touchstones of avant-garde underground progressive rock. The French-Portuguese female singer’s unearthly voice and searching, often intense lyrics made them cult classics.

The first three records by the French-Portuguese singer Catherine Ribeiro and her inventive, psychedelic backing band Alpes are the types of elusive record-collector gems that feel like transmissions from another world. You hear this unearthly voice emerging from somebody’s speakers. You listen to the wild, visionary music accompanying it. Suddenly you need to know everything.

Ask Ribeiro, and you won’t find many answers. The accompanying liner notes sketch her life prior to Alpes’ debut, 1970’s Nº2, in stark terms: “It was an immense pile of waste and solitude,” is how she summarizes her formative years. In her 1999 memoir, L’Enfance, Ribeiro dives deeper with her band Alpes, as she filters nihilism, anger, and empathy into triumphant, multi-layered collages, galloping and stuttering as though the acid had kicked in midway through a hike at sunrise. “Peace to those who howl because they see clearly,” goes one of her iconic lyrics. Ribeiro does just that, but her voice is such a versatile instrument that it cannot be limited to one mission. She laughs, she caws, she screams, she mourns, she barks, she brays. She sings about suicide, about motherhood and madness, about doomed affairs between Eastern European women and politicians from imagined countries. The music—which calcified into the sound of an identifiable avant-garde-leaning psych-folk band throughout these three LPs—touches on the swirl of 1960s rock and the theatrical swell of 1970s prog, stretching both genres to their most impressionistic extremes. As a group, Alpes can sound eerily beautiful or demonically possessed, sometimes whiplashing between those modes as if satirizing the entire scope of rock music.... .

- Catherine Ribeiro / vocals
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- Patrice Moullet / acoustic & electric guitars, vocals (4)
- Patrice Lemoine / organ
- Claude Thiebaut / percussions
1 Prelude
Sîrba
August 15, 1970
Silen Voy Kathy
Prelude
Non Epic Poem
Ballada Das Aguas
Soul Standing
2 Standing Soul
Diborowska
Alps 1
Alps 2
Alpilles
Aria Popular
The Kleenex, The Bed Sheet And The Standard
           Crazy                
CONDITION: The cover: rated: M- TOP COPY in THICK colorful cover, far surpassing the French issue in the same. There are basically NO issues, well preserved 48 years. You will find no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...

The vinyl: Rated: M- both sides full of clear smooth shine. Obvious clean audio. While  both silver/red Philips labels are clean                   A cool addition to anyone's music library!






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