CLARK HUTCHINSON A=MH2 V Rare Orig UK Nova Prog Psych
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Clark Hutchinson
A=MH2
Very Rare Original UK LP released on Decca Nova Records in 1969. 1st UK pressing on the Blue label, the sleeve is laminated on the front and has the peep hole on the rear it also comes complete with the original Blue Decca inner sleeve.
Matrix No's
Side One - XZAL-9021-P-1W
Side Two - XZAL-9022-P-1W
Psychedelic raga-rock guitar-dominated instrumentals can be a gas -- just listen to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's "East-West" or the Mystic Tide's "Psychedelic Journey," or even some of Robbie Krieger's solos on long Doors tracks. It can also be a bore, as demonstrated by this 49-minute rarity, comprised of five long, doodling Indian-blues-fusion instrumentals, though some vocal chanting is heard. It might be a cliché when complaining about such albums to whine that it only sounds good if you're stoned, but that axiom does seem to apply to these pieces, any one of which grows tiresome, the effect multiplied when five of them are strung together. Sure, there's some skill applied by the players, who are reasonably nimble, using throbbing Indian-influenced tempos as the backdrop. They're songs and musicians in need of some kind of structure, however, and the incessant high-pierced pitches of the guitar become grating. The results are not so much far out as they are the sort of thing you might hear blasting away for a minute or two at a time in the background of drug orgies in some low-rent psychsploitation flicks. Sunbeam's 2008 Expanded Edition included a bonus eight-song CD that, although recorded just two months before A=MH2, is entirely different in both approach and material, essentially amounting to an album of its own. None of the songs from A=MH2 are included, and the tracks are ordinary late-'60s British blues-rock, at times showing a pronounced Cream influence in both the vocals and arrangements. It's more listenable in some respects than A=MH2, yet also less imaginative, or at least less different than what the average rock band of the time was doing. The Expanded Edition also has extensive historical liner notes, some of them written by Clark-Hutchinson manager Peter Shertser.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. Improvisation on a Modal Scale
2. Acapulco Gold
3. Impromptu in E Minor
Side Two
1. Textures in 3/4
2. Improvisations on An Indian Scale
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Released on 'Decca Nova Records' in 1969
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Catalogue No. SDN-R 2
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Disc is in Ex ++ condition (couple of very fine hairline marks from the inner sleeve)
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Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition (some light rubbing)
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