LIFE s/t 1970 Canadian Psych Rock Frankie Hart - RIVERSON - Peter Tessier M-

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LIFE s/t 1970 Canadian Psych Rock ~ Frankie Hart - RIVERSON - Peter Tessier M-

1972/Canada/Polydor Records 2424 001…..here’s a clean original Canadian pressing of their only lp. guests include Frankie Hart on vocals. Peter Tessier is one of the Engineers. The textured cover is in solid Excellent condition with slight shelf wear on the back cover, otherwise the cover is solid and clean with no splits or delete. The vinyl is in clean M- like new condition. A TOP copy. Please check my auctions for other psych, prog, and rock lp’s. Good luck and thanks for looking!

Few people took notice when Montreal band Life's lone eponymous album slipped out on Polydor Records in the early part of 1970. Arguably one of the era's most obscure releases, this criminally overlooked record has taken over forty years to finally be discovered. 
Life was the brainchild of Montreal native Neil Ship (aka Neil Sheppard), an incredibly talented singer/songwriter (and part of the Brill Building stable), who was looking to get his songs recorded with a group. In 1963, at the precocious age of 14, he'd scored a deal with Columbia Records in New York and recorded a long lost gem 'Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt'. After years working in the Big Apple, where he amassed a wealth of experience in production, arrangement and song-writing, Sheppard landed a deal with Polydor Records Canada and started to put together a band to record his songs. 
Sheppard had several musicians in mind for the Life project. First on the list was one of his brothers, keyboard player and singer Michael Ship, who was working in Montreal band the Scene alongside bass player Danny Zimmerman, drummer Marty Simon and two long-forgotten guitarists. In late 1968, he linked Scene members Ship, Simon and Zimmerman with lead guitarist Barry Albert, a veteran of Bartholomew Plus Three. 
The first song recorded for the Life project, and the opening cut on the album was Sheppard's brilliant 'Hands of the Clock', a powerful rock ballad that the composer had conceived one night at the Winston Churchill pub in Montreal. "Every night the place closed at about two or three in the morning and I remember I used to come in and sit down at the organ and start writing," says Sheppard. "One night I just sat down and that love song popped up." Released as the band's debut single in June 1969, 'Hands of the Clock' became a modest hit, reaching #19 on the national RPM chart two months later. In the aftermath of the single's release and its rise up the charts, Life played its biggest concert of its short-lived career, the First Montreal Bi-Cultural Pop Festival, held at the Montreal Forum alongside Triangle, Robert Charlebois and headliners Steppenwolf. "It was the first time a local act had been billed in the 20,000 seat hockey arena," says Simon. "[We were] hometown boys making good." 
However, dissatisfied with the way the recordings were progressing (and the arrival of second guitarist Jean Pierre Lauzon), Albert made his excuses and left to join labelmates Tapestry. With Albert out of the picture, the remaining members finished the rest of Life as a quartet at Stereo Sound Studio. Their interpretation of the Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' is a real revelation. Imbued with a strong jazz feel, the track is notable for Lauzon's exquisite flamenco guitar solo. Also worth checking out are the two instrumentals that bookend and kick off sides one and two - 'Lifetime 1' and 'Lifetime 2'; both have a sonic charm and feature some impressive backwards guitar, courtesy of Lauzon. Equally impressive is the closing number, Sheppard's 'Needing You', featuring the composer on keys. A haunting ballad with sumptuous piano work and aching strings, it is a fitting ending to a largely brilliant album. And Sheppard's production work is superlative throughout. It probably didn't hurt that Polydor had been generous enough to give Sheppard a sizeable budget to cut the album. ("I think we had a $7,000 budget," he says. "It was like a million dollars today.") 

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MINT: as stated with no defects

NEAR MINT: as stated near Mint!, or Mint Minus, same thing, very clean with no defect to sound or visual appearance, one scuff or mark may be permitted but it will be mentioned in the description, a near Mint record looks and plays very clean

EXCELLENT: not much below near Mint, may have a delete hole and/or a minor defect or two not visually detracting from the cover, the vinyl will appear shiny and in clean condition with very minor defects not affecting the sound, still very clean and very collectable!

VG++ still a very nice copy with minimal cover wear and/or delete/splits, still visually appealing, the vinyl will retain it's original gloss and can have some minor scuffs/scratches that don't affect play very much

VG+ a little more cover/ring wear and delete, splits etc., the vinyl will still retain much original gloss with a bit more scuffs and/or scratches I may list a very rare or desirable item with a lower grade, I will try to list all defects, both cover and vinyl no matter the condition.