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PERRY LEOPOLD: “Experiment in Metaphysics”

LABEL: Psychedelic Archive

Label Number: PALP-1003

- 1995 issue - old UK vinyl identical reissue

- Only 300 copies were pressed up and it was instantly sold out upon release. Very nicely done reissue job

- In addition to the snazzy silver-flake cover you also get a custom insert with photos and ads

- TOP ARCHIVE CONDITION, all is Near Mint…perfect

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LP Record: Near Mint – beautiful copy. Hard to find better

Paste On heavy Jacket: Near Mint ~ with straight edges/ fully readable & sturdy spine/ sharp corners. Sole defect is a few wrinkles on lower left handside corner

Insert: MINT

Faces Inner Sleeve: Mint

Some words on this issue: Long before anyone had heard of ’loner folk’ or even ’acid folk’, Perry Leopold was an underground legend. He had made enough of a mark on the ‘70s club scene in Philadelphia to trigger vague reminiscences among local elders, and when word on his self-released 1970 album started getting around in the mid-1980s, its uniqueness was quickly realized. Decades later, Experiment In Metaphysics remains a dark beacon among ‘70s underground folk records, a $1000 yardstick against which recent genre discoveries are measured and usually found lacking. It’s not just a question of fulfilling the basic criteria of good songwriting, vocal ability and instrumental prowess – and here we’ve already left most of the acoustic private press competition behind – but intangible elements such as atmosphere, presence, and artistic vision. These are qualities found in Tim Hardin or Nick Drake, very hard to define through language, but easy to experience by listening to their albums. Anyone can make a record with just acoustic guitar and words, but almost no one can make that record memorable for years to come. Experiment In Metaphysics is deliberately and intelligently arranged. Side 1 – marked as ‘Kommercial’ on the label – opens on a fairly conventional note, with a few Hardinesque verses about alienation: “You never see your face… Never in your lifetime will you know your friends”. Suddenly the mood changes, and the first of the album’s many doors into the psychedelic experience opens. A philosophic monologue of the kind sometimes found on avant-jazz albums follows, urging us to “look at the walls of the universe”. After a couple of minutes inside this half-spoken trip, Leopold returns to baseline and wraps up his song with no loose ends left dangling. The ‘Kommerical’ side continues to move like this, from  brooding folk into the trip space and back. The modern hobo lament of “Cold In Philly” is followed by “And Then, The Snow Came”, refracting the drifter mood through a psychedelic lens of intensely concentrated, unorthodox guitar figures. Indeed, Leopold’s steel string guitar playing is one of the most remarkable aspects of the album. Originating with John Fahey and Davy Graham, avant-folk guitar emerged as a vital stream within the ‘60s folk-boom, one that kept nourishing local solo artists through the 1970s. A friend who is an expert in the field suggests that Perry Leopold’s playing may draw on Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, who of course in turn were deeply indebted to Graham. Leopold is not necessarily a better technician than anyone else, but somehow, via his two Martin guitars and perhaps that ‘altered and accentuated creativity’, he manages to instill atmospheres and images that are transcendental. It’s highly appropriate that side 2, where the label instructs the listener to ‘Drop’ (LSD), opens with another arresting instrumental, and the two epic tracks that follow also contain extended acoustic guitar passages. “Everything Goes (When You’re Gone)” marks the album’s apex, with both lyrics and music traversing Leopold’s trademark path from human reality into the far reaches of psychedelia. At first a love song, then a metaphysic encounter with Satan and/or Jesus Christ, and then an extraordinary climax with dual guitar interplay. The authority and presence is absolute, untouchable. Perry Leopold sounds as big a star as Tim Buckley. He was inventing a genre, and he may even have known it. Maybe that’s why the label of his 1970 record says ‘Acid Folk’, about 25 years before that term became trendy. (PL – Lysergia)

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