T Rex: My People Were Fair.... (200g Universal Japan)
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Tyrannosarus Rex: My people were fair and had sky in their hair, but now they're content to wear stars on their brows - New sealed 200g limited edition Universal Japan
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The Japanese are meticulous in the pressing of their records and each album is pressed on dead-quiet, 200g Japanese Virgin Vinyl, obliterating pressings done elsewhere. Released from the original analog tapes. This is a strictly one-time pressing run and is now deleted.
My People Were Fair approaches the listener from a totally unique angle. The Bolan voice, hardened from the slight warble which carried through his early solo material, remains uncompromising, but it blends so perfectly with the bizarre, almost Eastern-sounding instrumentation that the most lasting impression is of a medieval caravansary whose demented Bedouin cast has suddenly been let loose in a recording studio. It is an irresistible affair, if absolutely a child of its psychedelically-inclined time, Frowning Atahuallpa even recruits DJ John Peel to read a Tolkien-esque fairy tale. But one of Bolan's loveliest compositions is here, the gentle and deceptively melodic Child Star, layered by harmonies which hit you sideways and are all the more mighty for it; one of his weirdest, too, is included, the mutant fairy dance of Strange Orchestras, which sounds like it was recorded by one. Together with fellow highlights Chateau in Virginia Waters and Graceful Fat Sheba, both are so far ahead of the material Bolan had been composing just a year earlier (subsequently made available on the Hard on Love/Beginning of Doves retrospective), that the inclusion of the oldies Hot Rod Mama and Mustang Ford is almost disappointing. They are, however, the only sour notes sounded on an album whose magic is discernible from so many different angles that it is hard to say which is its most astonishing factor. But it's hard not to be drawn to the actual dynamics of My People Were Fair, the uncanny way Tyrannosaurus Rex take the slightest musical instruments, pixie phones, glockenspiels and a Chinese gong included, to make them sound like the heaviest rock & roll band on the planet. Anyone could play power chords, after all. But who else would play them on acoustic guitar?
1. Hot Rod Mama2. Scenescof
3. Child Star
4. Strange Orchestras
5. Chateau in Virginia Waters
6. Dwarfish Trumpet Blues
7. Mustang Ford
8. Afhgan Woman
9. Knight
10. Graceful Fat Sheba
11. Weilder of Words
12. Frowning Atahuallpa (My Inca Love)
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