PETER MICHAEL HAMEL Hamel '72 German cosmic prog rock lp Vertigo swirl spaceship
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Description
Vertigo, Germany, 1972, 2 lp gatefold, unusual copy featuring 1 lp swirl label, 1 lp spaceship label. Possibly a 1974 press of the 1972 lp with an original swirl record enclosed, or a 1972 original with one record switched out with a spaceship label record.
VG+ to EX/ EX to M-
Cover has some light lamination peeling, very small edge creases, small corner wear at bottom, thin 1" split on spine. Both lps in nearly new shape, barely played, very light surface wear on spaceship label lp.
BETWEEN keyboardist Hamel's legendary cosmic prog debut, featuring long, spacey, otherworldly tracks. Now super rare, this copy is unusual in that it has one record of each Vertigo style of the era, one swirl and one spaceship. This is either a spaceship ( second label, "2Y" matrix #) copy on which the label still had extra swirl label copies left over ( first label, "1Y" matrix #), or is an original swirl copy in which someone substituted a spaceship labeled record. Either way it is very rare and an essential piece of German cosmic "Kosmische" music,
