MAGIC CARPET Magic Carpet LP MAGIC CARPET 1972re UK limited+number+insert+signed

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CLEM ALFORD, JIM MOYES, KESHAV SATHE, ALISHA SUFIT

A mystical Eastern-sounding psychedelic folk album which was produced and engineered 

by Vic Keary at Chalk Farm Studios in the Winter of 1971/2. All the tracks are self-penned, 

half of them by the vocalist Alisha alone.The band had formed at the beginning of the seventies. 

Alisha Sufit had a haunting voice ideally suited to the blend of Indian and Western music available 

on this album. Clem Alford was a classically-trained sitar player who'd travelled to India 

to learn more about Indian classical music. In 1971 they discovered Mushroom Records, 

which specialised in Indian-related recordings and has gone on to become a very collectable label. 

Sadly the band split up before the resulting album was released so it was never properly promoted. 

Mushroom were getting into financial difficulties in any case and could only afford to finance 

a limited pressing of 1,000 copies, which sold slowly over the next half dozen years

"MAGIC CARPET"

<reissue, originally published in 1972>

Produced by Vic Keary

LP     MAGIC CARPET RECORDS      MC 1001   STEREO

MADE IN ENGLAND    LIMITED & NUMBERED REPRESSING

THIS ONE IS # 42

WITH FOLD-OUT LYRICS INSERT

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  MAGIC CARPET -  WHITE/DARK YELLOW LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) MC 1001 LP      

Catalog on labels: MC1001LP (Side One / Side Two) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): MC 1001 LP-A2     A PORKY PRIME CUT

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): MC 1001 LP-B2     PRIMED V

On labels: Produced and engineered by Vic Keary 

First issued on Mushroom records 1972

? 1971 Sufit, Alford, Sathe, Moyes

© 1971 Sufit, Alford, Sathe, Moyes

On Back Sleeve: First issued in 1972 on Mushroom Records ? Re-released in 1995 on Magic Carpet Records

43 Ridge Road, London, N8 9LJ, England

Front cover lettering by Glyn Boyd Harte

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: THE MAGIC CARPET - THE PHEONIX - BLACK CAT

ALAN'S CHRISTMAS CARD - HARVEST SONG - DO YOU HEAR THE WORDS

Side B: FATHER TIME - LA LA - PEACE SONG

TAKE AWAY KESH - HIGH STREET - THE DREAM

  grading

RECORD STRONG EX (please, read above description)

SLEEVE NEAR EX (please, see pictures and read above description)

 What of the album? Well, the tracks are basically of two types. There are the pleasant, Eastern-sounding instrumentals 

typified by the title track, Alan's Christmas Card and Take Away Kesh and the tracks that showcase 

Alisha Sufit's delicate vocals like The Phoenix, Black Cat, Peace Song and High Street.

After the band's demise, Clem Alford went on to record a couple of solo albums and also issued an album 

as Sargam (misspelt as Sagram on the record). Alisha Sufit developed her interest in art but did eventually 

return to the recording studio in 1992 with some respected backing musicians to record 

Alisha Through The Looking Glass (Sufit 010 CD/MC), which was issued on CD and cassette.

Alisha Sufit and Clem Alford recorded a stylistically similar second album 

Once Moor as by Magic Carpet II in 1996...(Tapestry of Delights)