Robbie Basho ZARTHUS in Shrink 1974 1/1 PRESS Vanguard 79339 Psych Folk EX/NM LP

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.ROBBIE BASHO
ZARTHUS
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VANGUARD Records VSD-79339
Original 1974 issue • Stereo LP
1st PRESSING • 1C / 1A MATRIX

VINYL is EX
Full gloss vinyl is super clean with only a few light sleeve "sheen" marks, viewed under hard bright light, that are inaudible. No physical scuffs, scratches or other marks. Labels are pristine both sides
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COVER is NM
Still in the complete, clean original shrink wrap - pristine; No cut-outs, creases, dings, marks or soil. Edges straight, corners sharp. Seams and spine 100% intact with no wear or splits.

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NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Purchased directly from ROBBIE BASHO in 1970's at a small Santa Cruz Mountains club concert.

MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side One: V SD79339 A-1C
?Side Two: V SD79339 B-1A

This LP was purchased, along with the hand-retouched-by-Basho VENUS IN CANCER album
that I'm also selling at this time, at a remarkable Robbie Basho gig at CLUB ZAYANTE.

Robbie was performing at the renowned CLUB ZAYANTE in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the mid 1970's and sold a few of his LPs at intermission.

I picked up this ZARTHUS and a couple of Venus in Cancer. (all of the few Venus and Cancer? LPs he had there were re-touched artwork in one way or another - covering the nude women - mostly with paste-over b&w zeroxed artwork by Robbie and some painted or pasted-on image inside the gatefold - no two were alike!) He had at some point become very uncomfortable with the standard issue Nude Women cover art and disassociated himself from it by making his own cover art for those he sold himself during this period. Every now and then one of these surfaces; one can be found historically listed on Popsike and besides the 2 that I still posses, I've seen a couple of others appear at various used Record stores, here in No. California.?

There was special irony in (my first experience in seeing those Basho-altered covers): Robbie having the "covered over" nude covers at CLUB ZAYANTE, which was openly 'clothing optional' - and right out the back door, behind the stage he played from, were a number of nude folks sunning themselves on the deck and swimming in the pool.

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Robbie Basho's ZARTHUS, dating from 1974, is, in his own words, "An album of Persian, Arabic, Westerns Themes (sic), woven together into a single 'Fabric D'Amour' to cover the barren manekin (sic) of modern times."

"Zarthus is easily the album that most indulges ROBBIE BASHO's obsessions with Eastern modal scales and odd meters, and even Western classical themes, all of it is grounded in Basho's guitar...

"The discs first two tracks, "Zarthus" (dedicated to Meher Baba, Pete Townshend's guru) and "Khoda ? Gul ? Abe", are driving 12-string numbers, possessed as much by the rhythm of the mridingham [Indian Carnatic Double-head hand drum - played by Ramnad V. Raghavan] as they are by Basho's trademark open tonal wandering up and down the fret board. There is some single string playing in "Zarthus", but both tunes are driven from the fluid, liquidy percussive strum and drag of his lightning quick right hand.

"On "Mehera" and "Khalil Gibran", Basho employs the use of a piano as well as his guitars and his voice. For those who were put off by the singing on Voice of the Eagle, this is easier to handle, melodic and true if oddly constructed. All of it is based on drones and the cascading up and down is limited in range. The poetry in his lyrics is spiritually beautiful.

"The album's capper is the 19-plus minute side-long "Rhapsody in Druz". The first half is a beautiful love song to a spiritual master, and the last half is an exercise in droning strings, both on the piano and the guitars, rumbling microtonally against one another in tandem and causing overtonal vibrations between them ... all fans of the development of his music should take notes of its compositions as well as of his truly innovative piano playing."
 ~ Thom Jurek  AllMusic Guide REVIEW

TRACK LISTING
A1
Zarthus
A2 Khoda É Gul É Abe (The Lord Of The Blue Rose)
A3 Mehera
A4 Khalil Gibran
A5 Bride Divine



Rhapsody In Druz B1 Main Theme
B2 Wine Section
B3 Flower Of The Heart
B4 The Flight
B5 Nightingale
B6 Darshan
B7 Ocean Section
B8 Allah Meher
B9 Ships
B10 Baba's Mountain
B11 Look Into Your Heart
B12 March
B13 Rolling Home
a Must Have for all ROBBIE BASHO fans and Acoustic Guitar Master collectors alike
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Original VANGUARD Company inner sleeve included (Very clean; no splits)
Disc inside additional anti-static lined inner sleeves to protect original inner and the vinyl

Even though still in the original shrink-wrap
LP kept in an extra protective, clear poly outer-sleeve
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