SUNFOREST Sound Of Sunforest - Orig UK Stereo LP Acid Folk Deram Nova Psych Prog

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SUNFOREST

Sound Of Sunforest

Original UK Stereo LP released on Deram Nova Records in 1969.
Front-laminated cover with peephole on rear.
Includes polylined, blue & white 'STEREO' innersleeve.

XZAL-9059.P-3W   /   XZAL-9060.P-3W

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Sometimes it seems like there must have been something in the water (or the air) in England during 1969 that brought all of these folk musicians to the fore in rock music -- the two acoustic musicians from Methuselah break away to form the Amazing Blondel; Prelude starts their career; Mary Hopkin gives Apple Records its biggest non-Beatles hit ("Those Were the Days"); and, getting back to the subject at hand, Sunforest, a previously unknown folk-based trio (Terry Tucker, Erika Eigen, Freya Hough) gets signed to Decca Records and cuts this album for the company's Nova imprint. And this is one strange album, to be sure, with wildly varying sounds and styles across its 15 tracks, from the lush harmony singing on "Be Like Me" to the lapses into novelty and children's songs on "Lady Next Door" and "Peppermint Store."

When Sound of Sunforest is folky, it's mostly in a distinctly pop vein, but there's also a defiantly progressive current running through this entire album, as well -- the winds and reeds on the opening "Overture to the Sun" declare that this is no folk revival record, and the keyboard cadenza on "Be Like Me" carries the main body of the album into realms of classical-style exploration that most folk albums avoided. A small orchestra plays the opening bars of "And I Was Blue" behind the ethereal harmonies of the trio, before the core rock trio (Herbie Flowers, Big Jim Sullivan, et al.) takes over with a leaner folk-rock sound. And the trio lets their hair down for some plain lighthearted fun on "Lighthouse Keeper," a folk-cum-music hall number complete with kazoo. Strangest of all is "Magician in the Mountain," an odd, jazz-tinged piece that would be the highlight of the record -- where Herbie Flowers and company get into a decided funk groove -- if it were only representative of the record. Instead, it isn't like anything else here.

Needless to say, an album with so many diverse sounds wasn't going to get anywhere in 1969 without a hit single to draw people in, and Sound of Sunforest didn't have that. But it is a beautiful and entertaining artifact of its period as a production tour de force by the trio and producer Vic Smith (aka Vic Coppersmith-Heaven) -- and it might be the most daring psychedelic-cum-progressive record to show up on Decca this side of the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed (another album that was outside of any stylistic category at the time of its release) Ah, those were, indeed, the days....

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Overture To The Sun
Where Are You
Bonny River
Be Like Me
Mr. Bumble
And I Was Blue
Lighthouse Keeper
Old Cluck

Side Two

Lady Next Door
Peppermint Store
Magician In The Mountain
Lovely Day
Give Me All Your Loving
Garden Rug
All In Good Time

Released on 'Deram Nova Records' in 1969

Catalogue No. SDN 7

Disc is in G- condition ---- vinyl shows a lot - and I do mean A LOT! - of visible surface wear and scuffing. I have played it through and it does not skip (on my turntable, at least) although there is noticeable surface noise during 'quiet bits', and some audible pops throughout. Please note also the following defects:

***There is a scratch at the start of Side 1 which is audible throughout 'Overture To The Sun' and the start of  'Where Are You'.***

***There is a scratch at the start of Side 2 which is audible through the first half of 'Lady Next Door'. If you're using a very lightweight tonearm, this might jump on your turntable - but it plays through on mine***

Sleeve is in VG condition (some wear & ageing / minor laminate creasing)

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