HENRY COW "Unrest" UK VIRGIN 1st PRESS STUNNING MINT-

	£		33
	$		43

HENRY COW "Unrest" UK VIRGIN 1st PRESS STUNNING MINT-!!
MASSIVELR RARE!! SUPERB CONDITION!! BARELY PLAYED!!!
HENRY COW
Unrest

HERE WE HAVE A SUPERB!!! AND MASSIVELY RARE (especially in this condition!!!!) UK VIRGIN (V 2011), VERY FIRST PRESSING!!! OF HENRY COW'S SECOND LP FROM 1974, "Unrest". THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND AS THE ORIGINAL UK 1st PRESS WITH BLACK AND WHITE VIRGIN LABELS AND THE ORIGINAL OUTER LAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE!!! AND TO FIND ONE IN SUCH STUNNING, BARELY PLAYED CONDITION!!! - IMPOSSIBLY SCARCE!!!
THE FIRST ISSUE BLACK & WHITE VIRGIN LABELS HAVE THE FIRST PRESSING: A-1U / B-1U MATRIX (WITH THE VERY FIRST 1 / 1 MOTHER NUMBERS!!!!!) AND THE ALBUM IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FIRST ISSUE BEAUTIFULLY GLOSSY, DEEPLY LAMINATED SLEEVE, "Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford"
ORIGINAL COPIES OF THIS LP ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY SCARCE, AND TO FIND ONE IN SUCH STUNNING CONDITION IS VERY, VERY RARE!!!

By this point Henry Cow consisted of guitarist Fred Frith, drummer Chris Cutler, bassist John Greaves, keyboardist Tim Hodgkinson, and, of particular importance to the band's sound at this point, bassoonist Lindsay Cooper. As is so often the case with avant-garde rock & roll, it's the composed pieces that work best, and the fact that Frith is responsible for the majority of them is significant. "Bittern Storm Over Ulm" is an absolutely brilliant demolition of the Yardbirds' "Got to Hurry," while the brief but lovely "Solemn Music" unfolds in a stately manner with atonal but pretty counterpoint between Frith and Cooper. The improvised material succeeds in a more spotty way. "Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon" demonstrates how fine the line can be between bracing free atonality and mindless cacophony. The unsettling but eventually gorgeous "Deluge," on the other hand, shows how well Henry Cow could walk that line when they tried; in this piece, random guitar skitterings, scattershot drum clatter, and pointillistic reed grunts are eventually snuck up on and overtaken by softly massed chords and Cooper's gently hooting bassoon. The effect is startlingly moving. Overall, this is one of Henry Cow's better efforts.

LABELS: The 1st 'Black & White Virgin' labels are in SUPERB condition with NO wear, NO writing and only a few very, VERY light spindle traces!!!! THIS LP HAS HARDLY EVER BEEN PLAYED!!
VINYL Visual: The record lies perfectly flat on the turntable and both surfaces have their original DEEP, LIKE-NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN. The surfaces are COMPLETELY UNMARKED!!!
VINYL Audio: SUPERB!! - CRYSTAL CLEAR, SHARP, STRONG and VIBRANT!!!!! There are NO scratches, NO clicks/pops, NO jumps, NO sticks, and NO surface noise AT ALL!!  (the run ins and quiet passages, and there are a lot of very quiet passages, are as quiet as vinyl can possibly be!!) - truly awesome and very, VERY rare, ESPECIALLY FOR AN ORIGINAL PRESSING!! The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO groovewear and NO distortion!!!! This copy has NOT been overplayed, in fact I would say it has hardy EVER been played AT ALL!! This must be graded MINT- for audio!!!! ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!! YOU WILL NOT FIND A BETTER COPY!!!! - IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS ANYMORE!!! This record is NOT overgraded in ANY way as I use STRICT RECORD COLLECTOR grading standards!!!
SLEEVE: The original 1st issue DEEPLY GLOSSY laminated GATEFOLD cover is SUPERB!! CRISP, CLEAN and FRESH. Almost LIKE-NEW - AMAZING!!! There is virtually NO edge/corner wear to speak of!!!!! and the spine is straight and true with ALL text SHARP and CLEAR!! The laminate has a BEAUTIFUL DEEP GLOSSY SHEEN!!!! A really BEAUTIFUL sleeve!!!!

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I USUALLY TAKE QUITE A FEW SO YOU CAN GET A CLEAR INDICATION OF EVERY DETAIL OF THE ITEM
THIS REALLY IS A STUNNING COPY WITH OUTSTANDING AUDIO DELIVERY!!! THIS LP NEVER TURNS UP IN THIS CONDITION ANYMORE!!!
AND AS THE ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING FROM 1974!! VERY SCARCE!!!!
YOU WILL NOT FIND ONE BETTER!!!
DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS ONE IT MAY BE QUITE A WHILE BEFORE YOU SEE ANOTHER!!
AS WITH ALL MY RECORDS THIS HAS A LOW START PRICE AND NO HIDDEN RESERVE
PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE RARE AND COLLECTABLE VINYL
AND PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUERIES YOU MAY HAVE
THANKS FOR LOOKING, CHEERS


POST & PACKING
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