CLEARLIGHT SYMPHONY GONG STUNNING UK RECORD COMPANY PROMO POSTER 1975 PROG PSYCH
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THIS IS THE OFFICIAL AND THE ORIGINAL U.K. RECORD COMPANY PROMOTIONAL POSTER FOR THE RELEASE OF THE ALBUM “CLEARLIGHT SYMPHONY” BY THE BRITISH PROG/PSYCH BAND 'CLEARLIGHT' IN 1975. CHECK OUT THE ARTWORK ON THIS IT IS QUITE STUNNING!!!!! THIS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND RARE POSTER HAS HAD SOME SMALL TEARS TO THE EDGES REPAIRED USING CLEAR NON ACIDIC ARCHIVE TAPE TO THE REAR TO PROTECT AND PREVENT ANY FURTHER DAMAGE. IT HAS BEEN FOLDED AND IS COMPLETE AND INTACT WITH NO BITS MISSING. THE CONDITION IS A STRONG V.G. TO EX. IT MEASURES 27 INCHES 69 CM WIDE AND 33 INCHES 84 CM HIGH. IT WILL BE SOME TIME BEFORE YOU SEE ANOTHER ONE OF THESE IN ANY CONDITION AND CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW AMAZING THIS WOULD LOOK HAVING BEEN PROFESSIONALLY MOUNTED GLAZED AND FRAMED.....IT'S AN ABSOLUTE BEAUTY!!!!!
FROM WIKIPEDIA:-
Clearlight Symphony is a progressive rock album released in 1975 on Virgin Records in the UK. It does not officially have an artist name, but is now regarded as the first album by Clearlight who adopted the name later that year, after briefly using the name Delired Cameleon Family. Side one features group member Cyrille Verdeaux and three members of Gong; side two features the group that would become Delired Cameleon Family (Clearlight). Neither group is explicitly named as the artist.
Primarily psychedelic, but also serving as a forerunner of new age music, the album's musical style manages to blend seemingly contrary elements: the symphonic rock concept is flexible enough to permit extensive jamming in both rock and jazz fusion styles.
Recording and release
The album was recorded for Virgin Records in 1973[1] (and probably completed in 1974), after the label's first and highly successful release, Tubular Bells (1973) by Mike Oldfield, and was one of several subsequent Virgin albums that attempted to copy Tubular Bells' format of long pieces in a symphonic progressive rock style; in this case, exactly copying its structure of two pieces titled "part one" and "part two". Since the title Tubular Bells was initially better known to the general public than the name of its artist, Virgin Records decided that Clearlight Symphony would be a one-off album project with a title, but no artist name.
Recording was initiated with a session in which Cyrille Verdeaux, alone, played two 20 minute piano solos, which became the basic tracks for the entire album. In later recording sessions at David Vorhaus' Kaleidophon studio (side one) and the Manor (side two), Verdeaux and other musicians overdubbed more instruments onto the piano solo to create a complex arrangement. When recording was completed, one piece was performed by Verdeaux and members of Gong, and the other by members of the group that would become Delired Cameleon Family (and later, Clearlight), although neither group is explicitly credited.
The recording came at a time when the classic line-up of Gong under the direction of Daevid Allen had temporarily become inactive, and some of its members briefly toured in Spring 1973 under the name Paragong, meaning a side project of Gong, while the status and future of the full band seemed uncertain.[2] Musicians on side two include Christian Boulé who had previously worked with Verdeaux in a band called Babylone, and drummer Gilbert Artman from Lard Free (and later, Urban Sax).
The sides are not in the order Verdeaux intended.[1] The side with Delired Cameleon Family / Clearlight was to have been side one, and prior to the album's release, an alternate mix of an excerpt was issued on the Virgin Records compilation album V (1975) as "Clearlight Symphony – extract from part 1". Sometime between the release of V and Clearlight Symphony Virgin Records decided that the side with Gong should become side one, partly to promote Gong, and partly because it was closer in style to Tubular Bells with its symphonic structure (and like that album, contains no percussion in most sections), while the other side is closer to jamming rock music. In a later decade, Verdeaux obtained the rights to the album and re-issued it on CD with the parts in the intended order: the Delired Cameleon Family / Clearlight side playing first.
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