T Rex: Prophets, Seers & Sages.. (200g Universal Japan)

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May 31, 2009 Sold Date

May 24, 2009 Start Date

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Tyrannosarus Rex: Prophets, Seers & Sages - The Angels Of The Ages - 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.

The most underrated of Tyrannosaurus Rex's four albums, Prophets, Seers & Sages was recorded just six months after their debut and adds little to the landscapes which that set mapped out. There is the same reliance on the jarring juxtaposition of rock rhythms in a folky discipline; the same abundance of obscure, private mythologies; the same skewed look at the latest studio dynamics, fed through the convoluted wringer of the duo's imagination — the already classic pop of the opening Deboraarobed is further dignified by its segue into the same performance played backwards, a fairly groundbreaking move at a time when even the Beatles were still burying such experiments deep in the mix. But if the album itself found the duo rooted to the musical spot, still it delivered some of Marc Bolan's most resonant songs. The nostalgia-flavored Stacey Grove and the contrarily high-energy Conesuela were as peerless as any of Bolan's more feted compositions. Equally intriguing is the confidence which exudes from Scenes of Dynasty, a successor of sorts to the last album's Scenesof, but presented with just percussion and some strange vocal noises to accompany Bolan's singing — at a time when singing was maybe not the term a lot of listeners would employ for his vocals. The excited one-two-three-four count-in only adds to the dislocation, of course. Finally, the owlishly contagious Salamanda Palaganda offers a first-hand peek into the very mechanics of Bolan's songwriting. Other composers stuck for a rhyme either reach for the thesaurus or abandon the lyric altogether. Bolan simply made one up, and in the process created a whole new language — half nonsense, half mystery, but wholly intoxicating. Just like the rest of the album, in fact.

1 Deboraarobed
2 Stacey Grove
3 Wind Quartets
4 Consuela
5 Trelawney Lawn
6 Aznageel the Mage
7 The Friends
8 Salamanda Palaganda
9 Our Wonderful Brownskin Man
10 O Harley (The Saltimbaques)
11 Eastern Spell
12 The Travelling Tragition
13 Juniper Suction
14 Scenes of Dynasty

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