Songs of Love and Praise Nirvana UK Band (VInyl LP in VG condition 1972)
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You are bidding on an extremely rare vinyl LP of Nirvana's "Songs of Love and Praise" which was pressed by Philips in 1972. The LP is VG with no jumps but has some crackle between tracks. I bought this album in 74 and it has been rarely played over that time. I have --- "All of Us" "Local Anaesthetic" and "To Markos III"----All on Vinyl. These LPs have all been looked after by myself but I wrote my name on the Label of one and the cover of the other two. So I will possibly sell these three LPs further down the line. The cover and inner sleeve on this particular LP are in Near Mint condition and would grace any serious collector of this duo's releases from this era. Please note this is the original UK band consisting of Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulous and is their 4th album although by that time Alex Spyropoulos had amicably parted in 1971 but 2 tracks on this album were co-written by them. As PC-L states on the cover notes:- "Nirvana has been the vehicle for musical works put together by myself and friends whom I have known for a long time."
The following is from Wikipedia re Musical style of Nirvana:
The group were in the school of baroque-flavoured, melodic pop-rock music typified by the Beach Boys of Pet Sounds and God Only Knows, the Zombies of Odyssey and Oracle and Time Of The Season, the Procol Harum of A Whiter Shade of Pale, the Moody Blues of Days of Future Past and Nights in White Satin and the Kinks of Waterloo Sunset and the Love of Forever Changes. The majority of the tracks on Nirvana's albums fell into that broad genre of contemporary popular music, not easily categorized but perhaps best described as the baroque or chamber strand of "progressive rock, soft rock or "orchestral pop" and " Chamber Pop".
The Nirvana song "Rainbow Chaser" is thought to be the first-ever British recording to feature the audio effect known as phasing or flanging throughout an entire track, as distinct from occasionally within a song such as the Small Faces in "Itchycoo Park". Phasing was, by 1967, heavily identified with the musical style known from 1967 onwards as psychedelia, and as "Rainbow Chaser" was the only Nirvana single to achieve commercial success, peaking at number 34 in UK Singles Chart during May 1968,[6] they were invariably tagged as a "psychedelic" band. However, despite their name, promotional photographs on the cover of their first album wearing "flower power" style clothes that implied associations with "druggy" music and distorted acid rock-style guitars, the band actually had no associations with that style of music. "Rainbow Chaser" was one of the few Nirvana recordings that had any connection with "psychedelic" music, although "Orange and Blue" (1970) was acknowledged to have been written under the influence of LSD according to the liner notes of the eponymous album.
I particularly liked this little snippet from one of their performances on French TV:The band appeared on French television with Salvador Dalí, who splashed black paint on them during a performance of their second single "Rainbow Chaser." Campbell-Lyons kept the jacket, but regrets that Dalí did not sign any of their paint-splashed clothes. Island Records allegedly sent the artist an invoice for the cleaning of Schuster's cello.
Best of luck if you are bidding on this item-----If you require further info or photos of cover etc please contact me. I have used a stock image above but will include original photo at the earliest opportunity.
Have now updated with the photo of the actual LP. The album has been kept in an outer plastic sleeve in which it will be posted. I will post it with due care regarding the packaging to ensure a safe delivery to the succesful bidder.
I generally post within UK and my Postage and Packing are based on that destination.
If you are bidding outwith UK please contact me for a Price for Recorded Delivery to that destination.
Please take a look at other items which I am selling here on EBay----the majority of these are signed books.
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