Milton Wright Spaced LP on Alston (Rare Original Pressing)Modern Soul

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Milton Wright - Spaced On Alston Label

Rare and in demand Modern Soul/Funk Outing From Milton Wright,
Much harder to find than his 'Friends & Buddies' on the
same label due to a fire in the warehouse where these lps were kept.

This is a 100% Original Pressing out of a very serious groove collectors own collection.
Record is super clean and only has one slight mark on B-side additional photos and sound clips taken from the record for sale can be supplied for serious buyers ( I was intending to take photos in natural light but it has rained here for close to 3 days straight)
Cover has been Graded quite harshly would be closer to VG, no ring wear, slight crease in top left hand corner and the cut in the bottom left corner that all of these lps have I believe.

Review taken from Funk My Soul dot com
 Released on the Alston subsidiary of TK Records (to whom his sis was also affiliated at the time), this was a commercial failure – but since when has that been a mark of a record’s longevity ?!!  Fate dealt a second blow when stacks of the unsold pressings were destroyed in a warehouse fire.  However, sufficient copies did survive to tell a wonderful tale – ten tales in total.  The set is written solely or jointly by Mr Wright and produced once again by Seth Snyder, with Milton presumably contributing his musicianship on the guitar.  Things push off with ‘She can have anything she wants’, a pleasant Modern Soul groover with curiously muffled (spaced-out ?) overdubbed vocals – maybe not the most captivating song to start an album with.  ‘Dance have fun’ is a great disco thumper with the Morse for SOS seemingly played throughout to give it an urgent edge, and that extended break to finish is a gas.  The next track reminds me how similar Milton and Leroy Hutson are in their slender vocal tones and adventurous production.  ‘Magic music’ has a lovely light and breezy quality.  A track I was familiar with is the warm, caressing ‘All I know is I have you’, a simple message drifting in a gentle sea of strings and flutes – beautiful.  Then it’s the funky, impudent, bass-driven ‘Let’s take a break’ – a precursor to Prince’s ‘Kiss’ ?  With some phat Tower Of Power sounding horns thrown in – this is waaay too brief.

That familiar sound of chattering guitars and sweeping strings herald the disco-orientated ‘You like to dance’.  Not bad, but unfortunately his vocals are exposed as particularly unsuitable for the genre.  Not sure why, but ‘You don’t even know me’ reminds me of ‘Keep it up’ – it has that same insistent quality.  Wisely introducing a female background vocalist for the first time, this is my highlight.  Although ‘Leave me alone’ sounds like a slowed down version of the preceding track, it has a charm all of its own.  Leroy Hutson comes back to mind here at his mighty midtempo best, hugging you like a warmed blanket.  Brilliant, and his best vocal performance.  The cheerful ‘Be with me’ again uses dual tracked vocals to provide a lilting, strangely hypnotic experience.  The spiritual ‘Job’ (the biblical figure) is a melodic closer that lacks a little something – maybe a female choir to give it a more wholesome feel.

More soulful/dance and less jazz-orientated than its predecessor, this is still an enchanting episode that was a real pleasure to sit through.  The quality is undeniable and another extremely worthy and rare addition to these hallowed pages.

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