SANDY HURVITZ Album is Here At Last Orig 1968 US Verve LP Folk Psych Frank Zappa
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Sandy Hurvitz (Essra Mohawk)
Sandy's Album Is Here At Last
Very Rare original US LP released on Verve Records in 1968. 1st US pressing on the Blue and Silver label.
The teenage Hurvitz, prior to becoming Essra Mohawk, made this hit and miss recording for Frank Zappa's Bizarre label. Zappa was the project's original producer, before various disagreements saw him replaced by Ian Underwood. The results suggest that Underwood was narcoleptic, or a perpetual absentee -- it's hard to credit his input with a title so lofty as producer. Hurvitz's songs -- long, formless, intense creations -- may in all likelihood be of the very finest, but it's impossible to tell. All the cuts seem to have been recorded through a dense, woolen sock, and each is nearly impenetrable as a result. Apart from the occasional intrusion of a small band, and a flautist, it's essentially a solo recital -- just Hurvitz and her piano -- but even the songs most bare of instrumentation are clouded and marred by the rotten production job, which also succeeds in making Hurvitz' lyrics completely unintelligible. The song titles -- "Arch Godliness of Purplefull Magic," "Tree of Trees," and "The Sun" -- point towards a bright, sparkling imagination, but the sound quality of Sandy's Album means that even that cannot be verified.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
1 Child 3:07
2 Three Hawks 3:21
3 All This Time Going By 4:25
4 Woman 2:20
5 The Sun 6:50
Side Two
1 Many Different Things 4:00
2 You'll Dance Alone 3:25
3 Tree Of Trees 3:46
4 Arch Godliness Of Purplefull Magic 3:26
5 Love Is What I've Found 3:33
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Released on Verve Records in 1968
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Catalogue Number V6-5064-X
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Record is in Vg + condition (couple of surface marks on side two)
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Sleeve is in Ex + condition
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