VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR ?Still Life 1st PRESS Orig UK CHARISMA CAS 1116 ARUN LP

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VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - "STILL LIFE", 1976 THE EARLIEST 1ST PRESSING ORIGINAL UK ON THE FAMOUS CHARISMA LABEL CAS 1116 AND IN FANTASTIC CONDITION!
Matrix / Runout (Dead Wax Side A): CAS 1116 A//1 C 1 1 2 ARUN
Matrix / Runout (Dead Wax Side B): CAS 1116 B//1 1U C 1 1 8

VINYL: LOOKS UNPLAYED, VERY CLEAN AND SHINY, JUST A COUPLE OF TINY VERY LIGHT MARKS Track 3 SIDE A NOT AFFECTING THE AUDIO AT ALL AND A FEW WYSPY PAPER SLEEVE REMOVAL HAIRLINES VISIBLE UNDER A STRONG LIGHT ON BOTH SIDES. PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY WITH NEAR MINT FIDELITY AND JUST VERY OCCASIONAL VERY LIGHT CRACKLE IN VERY QUIET MOMENTS. GRADED: EX+
COVER: THE COVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH MINIMAL SHELF WEAR MAINLY BOTTOM OF COVER AND A COUPLE OF CORNERS OTHERWISE REALLY NICE COVER, STRAIGHT AND STRONG, NO WRITING, NO MARKS AND NO STICKERS, FULLY LEGIBLE AND STRONG SPINE. GRADED: EX
LABELS: NICE AND CLEAN, NO PROBLEMS, A FEW LIGHT SPINDLE MARKS ON BOTH SIDES. GRADED: EX+
THE ORIGINAL SLEEVE HAS NO PROBLEMS EITHER.

Originally released in 1976. It was their second album after reforming in 1975, the first being Godbluff.
The album cover shows a Lichtenberg figure. The image was described by journalist Geoff Barton in Sounds,: "It's actually a frozen-in-action shot of an electrical discharge from a real Van de Graaff generator machine, set in acrylic."

VDGG's second step on the mid-'70s comeback trail saw Peter Hammill attempting to meld the introspective and the cosmic throughout, though this did not stop him from taking a dead run at a grandiose concept or two -- the consequences of immortality on the title track, and the grand fate of humanity on the epic "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End." The theme of humane cooperation informs the opening "Pilgrims," while "La Rossa" is an epic tale of desire fulfilled (a story that would be concluded on Hammill's solo album, Over). The true highlight, however, is the beautiful, pensive "My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)," with its echoes of imagination and loss. Hammill did not achieve such a level of painful beauty again until "This Side of the Looking Glass" on Over. AllMusic.Com

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