L P - EAST OF EDEN - SNAFU -DERAM UK 1970 ORIGINAL

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	$		26

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BRITISH 33rpm LP RECORD ALBUM FROM 1970

"The people who designed today's CD standard  knew that vinyl Records offered superior sound"

EAST OF EDEN

SNAFU

DERAM - SML 1050 - STEREO - ORIGINAL BLUE-EDGED POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE

MATRIX NUMBERS:

ZAL 9435.P-1W (SIDE 1)

ZAL 9436.P-1W (SIDE 2)

Have to Whack It Up

Leaping Beauties for Rudy

Marcus Junior

Xhorkhom

Ramadhan

In the Snow for a Blow

Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul

Part III

Uno Transito Clapori

Gum Arabic

Confucius

Nymphenburger

Habibi Baby

Boehm Constrictor

Beast of Sweden

Traditional

CONDITION: Note, unless stated beneath, I haven't had time to play the record

Disc: spindle marks indicate it's been played very few times, clean, shiny and very tight-grooved, I could only see one faint mark so I played tracks one and two. I noticed bits of quiet crackle during the run-in, the track separator and some quiet parts of track two. Nothing obtrusive. Vocals and backing loud and clear.

Sleeve/Cover:  laminated front, light disc edge abrasion, a few surface wrinkles, some clarifoil "bubbling" near spine and bottom, back has light surface wear. Inner sleeve looks great.

East of Eden is a perfect illustration of the futility that Decca Records in England faced in cultivating progressive rock (apart from the Moody Blues). A critically acclaimed jazz-fusion band with a strong Eastern music influence, they were a natural for stardom during the late '60s but they never became more than a cult act in England, with a strong local following in London, especially on the underground scene, even as they attracted serious audiences in continental Europe. The band was formed in Bristol, during 1967, by Dave Arbus (flute, sax, trumpet), Ron Caines (alto sax), and Geoff Nicholson (guitar, vocals). Caines and Nicholson had previously played together in an r&b-based band, and the Caines and Arbus had been playing together for a couple of years. Future Wings member Geoff Britton was their original drummer, although the group's rhythm section was never an essential focus of their work, and went through quite a few musicians. Arbus had been trained in the violin, but it wasn't until he saw Jean Luc-Ponty playing on stage in Paris that he realized the possibilities that the amplified instrument offered. He add the electric violin to his repertory, greatly broadening the band's range and sound, and the following year they moved to London. The group was signed to Decca's progressive rock imprint Deram label in 1968, and cut two LPs, Mercator Projected and Snafu, of which the latter made it into the British top 30, while a single, "Ramadhan," got to number two in France. Their one big hit in England, "Jig-a-Jig," made the Top Ten there and became something of a stylistic albatross around the band's neck, since it didn't resemble their usual sound or anything else they normally played. Caines and Nicholson left the band as the '70s began, and Arbus kept it together. They jumped to the Harvest label, but their work there never caught on, coinciding as it did with a change in style and a veering away from Eastern music to a country-ish sound. Arbus left in the early '70s and was replaced by future Rory Gallagher collaborator Joe O'Donnell. The band carried on thru the mid 1970's as almost exclusively a European act, recording and releasing albums in Europe only. The three original core members reunited in 1999 for the recording and release of the album Kalipse.

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