WRITING ON THE WALL Power Of The Picts V Rare Orig UK Middle Earth Prog Psych LP
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Writing On The Wall
The Power of The Picts
Very Rare original UK LP released on Middle Earth Records in 1969. 1st UK pressing.
Matrix No's
Side One - MDLS 303A1
Side Two - MDLS 303B1
Writing on the Wall's only album was theatrical heavy blues-psychedelic-rock that, despite its power and menace, was too obviously derivative of better and more original artists to qualify as a notable work. The organ-guitar blends owe much to the Doors, Procol Harum, and Traffic, though the attitude is somehow more sour and ominous than any of those groups. The vocals are sometimes pretty blatant in their homages to Arthur Brown, particularly when Linnie Paterson climbs to a histrionic scream; Jim Morrison, Gary Brooker, and Stevie Winwood obviously left their imprints on him too. Throw in some of the portentous drama from the narrations to the Elektra astrological concept album The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds (particularly on "Aries") as well. A problem is, however, that not many singers other than Morrison and Brown could pull off this kind of solemn poetic mood, and on "Aries," to take one example, the attempt to create a seance-like atmosphere seems faintly ridiculous. To look at the positives, the band does play with a soul-rock crunch; the songs sometimes shift tempo (occasionally in and out of martial beats) and melody unpredictably, if not nearly as memorably as, say, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown did; and there are occasional off-the-wall touches of accordion and, on "Virginia Waters," speaking-in-tongues vocals with a nod to Family's Roger Chapman.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
1 It Came On A Sunday 4:10
2 Mrs. Cooper's Pie 4:50
3 Ladybird 4:48
4 Aries 6:02
Side Two
1 Bogeyman 3:10
2 Shadow Of Man 6:30
3 Taskers Successor 3:35
4 Hill Of Dreams 3:10
5 Virginia Waters 5:50
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Released on Middle Earth Records in 1969
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Catalogue Number MDLS 303
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Record is in Vg condition (some light surface marks)
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Sleeve is in Vg condition (shelfwear, rubbing and handling, also wear to edges, some scraping on the back and on the front it appears there were 3 letters which have been scraped of, SEE PICTURES)
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