LP PERRY LEOPOLD CHRISTIAN LUCIFER (re Psychedelic Sounds PSI 001-2 - SEALED

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LP PERRY LEOPOLD CHRISTIAN LUCIFER (re Psychedelic Sounds PSI 001-2 - SEALED

LP PERRY LEOPOLD

Christian Lucifer

Country of release: EEC, 2015

Original released: 1973

Label: Psychedelic Sounds International

Catalogue number: 001-2 PSI

Barcode: -

Gatefold / Gatefold Sleeve: Yes / No

 Condition Record: MINT

Condition cover: MINT

  LP is still sealed / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!

(Photo from my own LP / Photo taken from my own copy)

Tracks Side 1:

1. Sunday afternoon in the garden of delights (8:51)

2. The Windwill (8:58)

3. The Starewell (4:17)

Tracks Side 2:

1. serpentine lane (4:30)

2. The Annunciation (5:10)

3. The journey (6:47)

4. Vespers (5:33)

Lists at YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTd47cJ6EY&list=PLedhVH4YUKKyorKf6LECk1VCRSS_fwUq5

Although his incredibly rare first album, experiment in metaphysics, what a sensational and dynamic slice of progressive acid folk, Perry Leopold took a phenomenal leap forward on the follow-up, 1973's Christian Lucifer. (It is a small miracle did the recording ever saw the light of day, since the studio at Which It was recorded that sold and then closed, and all the master tapes from the sessions were erased and used again, leaving only a few mixdown copies .) The songs on the first album, while all strong Individually, did not quite hold together, but Christian Lucifer is conceptually a whole, impossible to imagine anything other than as what it is.Leopold's melodies again Shinelike slowly uncovered gems.Complex melodic lines and protracted vocal melodies stretch and build ominously, like the sight of a wise, enigmatic monk concealed beneath a woolen cloak.The religious reference is not an empty simile.If the songs on his first album came across as parables or ancient narrative tales, then Christian Lucifer is a collection of hymns, prayers, and litanies conflicted with the Dualities of life, full of metaphysical depth.Whereas the first album stuck to the basics folk, this second album which produced stunningly. Gorgeous layers of acoustic guitars, bass, Clavinet, bassoons, recorders, oboes, cellos, tabla, MiniMoog, and explosive timpani and bells gave the album a rococo-styled grace and wispy beauty, invoking everything from medieval madrigals to Bach and Vivaldi to Middletown Eastern musics to psychedelia and the Doors. And yet, it is none of those things. There are imprecise similarities to Nick Drake's oppressive but beautiful fragility, the theatrical majesty and scope of David Bowie (who is quoted at the beginning of "Serpentine Lane," a dystopian reply of sorts to "Space Oddity," with Leopold's deep voice infusing the Music With the same alien quality), and the visionary mystical musings of Merrell Fankhauser and Jeff Cotton's cult band Mu. The foreboding keyboards of "The Windmill" are pulled Directly from "Riders on the Storm," but the album is at Entirely unique and novel amalgam. There is a Renaissance fair feel, particularly in songs: such as "Sunday Afternoon in the Garden of Delights" and "The Starewell," harsh and pretty at once, and intriguingly arcane. Leopold what, lists in fact, a troubadour in the truest sense of the word, singing his music for whoever would. Ultimately, the album is a very individual struggle with the duality That lies at its heart and is the crux of everything humanity is and does. Christian Lucifer is Both terrestrial and ethereal, Both tangible and transcendent. It is unquestionably Leopold's masterpiece, and one of the most artistic, intellectually mature, and haunting album - released or not - of its era. (Stanton Swihart / allmusic.com)


Perry Leopold - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Jefferson Caine - Electric Guitar
Sam Rudin - Bongos, Percussion
Charles Cohen - Mini Moog
Bill Zino - String Bass
Mike McCarthy - Electric Bass, Double Bass, String Bass
David Goldblatt - Cello
Rich Amoroso - Cello
Jon Gillaspie - Clavinet, Bassoon, Recorder
Stan Slotter - Flute
Stephanie McCarthy - French Horn
Joel Bartlett - Oboe
Lenny - Tabla
Rick Kivinick - Timpani, Percussion

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