RAMASES Space Hymns 1971 UK VERTIGO 1st PRESS SWIRL INNER NEAR MINT
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RAMASES Space Hymns 1971 UK VERTIGO 1st PRESS SWIRL INNER NEAR MINT
RAMASESSpace Hymns
1971 UK VERTIGO (6360 046) FIRST PRESSING
SURERB COPY WHICH HAS SEEN LITTLE USE AND DELIVERS EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SOUND WITH NOTHING TO FAULT
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST VERTIGO SWIRL LABELS
MATRIX: 6360 046 1Y// 1 ▽420 1 1 2 04 / 6360 046 2Y// 1 ▽420 1 1 1 04
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SIX PANE FOLD-OUT POSTER SLEEVE “Printed and made by Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd. England”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED VERTIGO COMPANY INNER SLEEVE DATED JUNE 1971 ('0671')
Although Ramases' debut album is best known today for featuring the infant 10cc as accompanying musicians, it is, in fact, deserving of considerably more attention.
Insistent, percolating rhythms float across a lightly funky soundscape, building with an intensity that ebbs and flows with every track and begging comparison with some of the other, darker folk devils that danced around the fringes of the early-'70s British underground.
Comus, Gravy Train, and Dr. Strangely Strange all inhabit similar musical caverns, even as they strained toward new peaks of uniqueness, and Ramases shares that ambition -- and occasionally even surpasses it. The opening "Lifechild" sets the scene, one of two songs (the other is "Balloon," later in the set) that all but strap you aboard the spacecraft blasting off from Roger Dean's excellent sleeve design. From there, the journey does occasionally stray into territory that 10cc would enlarge upon -- or that they had already visited via their earlier Hotlegs excursions: "Oh Mister" is certainly the disinherited second cousin of "Um Wah Um Who," while "And the Whole World" could easily have become one of those insidious little ballads that Kevin Godley used to sing so sweetly. Again, however, it is misleading to emphasise such connections -- Space Hymns was Ramases' show from start to finish, a mass of musical eccentricities that spend the entire album colliding with one another, without once disintegrating into chaos or nonsense. A beautifully atmospheric album, then, Space Hymns remains one of the most musically and lyrically intriguing releases of an age where darkness and atmosphere genuinely meant something to their exponents.
Side 1:
Life Child
Hello Mister
And The Whole World
Quasar One
You're The Only One Joe
Side 2:
Earth People
Molecular Delusion
Balloon
Dying Swan Year 2000
Jesus Come Back
Journey To The Inside
LABELS: NEAR MINT
A clean unmarked set of labels with very few spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces clean with just one superficial surface mark on Side Two
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Superb copy which has seen little use and plays beautifully throughout with no audible issues of note.
No clicks, ticks or pops and exceptionally clean on the quiet intros to both sides.
A fantastic player and they really don't come much better
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Apart from rub to the edges and corners the cover is in fine shape and one of the finest I have seen.
Never been hung (no pin holes or tape marks) and clean inside and out
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Thanks 856 (GS 7.0.20 (856))
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