SAVAGE ROSE - 1st Press EX+ Culpepers Orchard Danish Psych Pink Floyd
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Description
SAVAGE ROSE -
self titled
POLYDOR
184 144
1st Press GERMANY
1968
This auction is for the supreme first album of the Danish band Savage Rose. It is indeed one of the psych milestones in Scandinavian rock. This is on par with e.g. Burnin Red Ivanhoe, Culpepers Orchard, the Dutch band Earth and Fire etc.
Credits
- Drums – Alex Riel
- Electric Bass – Jens Rugsted
- Engineer – Birger Svan
- Guitar – Flemming Ostermann
- Harpsichord – Ilse Maria Koppel
- Lead Vocals – Anisette*
- Organ – Anders Koppel
- Piano – Thomas Koppel
- Producer – Johnny Reimar
Notes
Original release in 1968 on German Polydor. Comes with cardboard lyric insert. Back cover has "6.68" printed at the bottom, indicating June 1968 as printing/manufacturing date for the album, to be released in July 1968. "F8" in runout means mastering in June 1968. Front cover has the white lines pattern embossed.Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout, Stamped): 2 ©1968 F8?K A1 00 184144 A
- Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout, Stamped): 2 ©1968 A1 F8?K 00 184144 B
- Rights Society: GEMA
"And so The Savage Rose was born. Thomas persuaded his younger poet/film maker brother Anders to buy a red Farfisa organ and hooked up with four other musicians, including the amazing singer Annisette, whose extraordinarily over-the-top proto-Bjork/post-Edith Piaf sexual delivery would later be described by Lester Bangs as ‘Grace Slick at 78 RPM’ and ‘Minnie Mouse on a belladonna jag’1 Nowadays known as ‘The Yellow Album’, that first self-titled LP was a beautiful but mainly too innocent/too simplistic take on what The Savage Rose would come to represent. Too often, Annisette had to adopt Anders Koppel’s male lyrical persona for songs such as the 45 ‘A Girl I Knew’. However, the release of the second album IN THE PLAIN revealed the true colours of this psychedelic three-keyboard player Spectorish onslaught. Imagine Japan’s euphoric Big Brother-esque septet The Flowers if they’d been able to write their own songs… or perhaps Guy Stevens’ wildest ‘River Deep, Mountain High’ aspirations written by idealistic anti-Vietnam post-Frisco refuseniks, topped with the most helium-voiced mid-orgasming female singer this side of early Kate Bush, and yooz approaching the heights that The Savage Rose occasionally attained." (headheritage.co.uk)
VINYL: EX+. Both surfaces retain their original deep, glossy sheen. There are no hairlines at all. This LP looks actually unplayed, there surely aren't any spindle traces. Beautiful labels and here it can be seen that the LP has been clearly looked after by a careful owner. The vinyl is super heavy around 150 gr.
Outstanding audio delivery in all respects with a crystal clear, deep, rich, warm and detailed sound and on playback at a loud volume (which is how I always listen to my LPs prior to listing and it's always an immense pleasure to return to this one) there is not much of surface noise. This is a beautifully clean pressing (and I must emphasise again how difficult it is to find a copy which plays this well). The whole LP sounds absolutely great and plays to a great standard with superb clarity, no groove-wear and no distortion and is very strictly graded a strong EX+ for audio - great copy!! Of course, NO skips, NO jumps, NO ticks.
Sleeve: EX. Single front and back laminated sleeve. Well preserved without any storage wear to the edges. The spine is 100% legible. The opening is crisp. Tiny edge creases mainly near the spine.
Completing the album is the original lyric sheet.
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This an excellent
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