DUNCAN BROWNE Give Me Take You 1968 ORIG PSYCH LP HEAR

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

DUNCAN BROWNE "Give Me Take You"

Original 1968 LP on the IMMEDIATE label, STEREO Z12 52 012

Cover:  VG, heavy ringwear, bottom and top seams 1/3 split

LYRIC INSERT INCLUDED!

Vinyl:  Noticeable but light marks/scratches/scuffs, nothing deep, plays VG in parts, VG++ in others

Here’s a very, very rare original pressing of Duncan Browne’s 1968 LP Give Me Take You, a beautiful acoustic folk psych album highly recommended for fans of Donovan, Nirvana (the UK kind), Bill Fay, Kaleidoscope (the UK kind), Strawbs and Dr. Strangely Strange.  And thankfully, Duncan DOES get a little strangely strange from time to time here, recalling the giddy nursery rhyme toytown popsike of early Syd Barrett on some songs.  And the whole thing’s produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, so you KNOW it SOUNDS good.

You might’ve already heard the excellent “On the Bombsite” already – it’s appeared on many compilations.  But for me, the buried treasures here include the gentle nursery rhyme popsike of “Dwarf In A Tree,” with its medieval Strawbs/Incredible String Band vibe full of harpsichord and bizarre imagery like “the dwarf would laugh and stand on his head, hang upside from the tree, and say that reasons should be left unsaid or you’ll end up a dwarf like me.”  The song is oddly subtitled “A Cautionary Tale,” which implies that either the dwarf is an embodiment of darkness inside each and every one of us, or it’s the worst publicity Keebler ever got.

The jaunty toytown popsike “Alfred Bell” adds gen-yoo-wine kiddies into the mix – albeit psychedelic echoed-out trippy kiddies – and the result is the same kind of children’s nursery rhyme psych pop that marked Syd Barrett’s contributions to Piper at the Gates of Dawn.  Check the soundclip – it’s not a big leap at all from the “who-o-o would recognize him now” of “Alfred Bell” to the “hoo-o-o-ray” of Syd’s “Gnome,” now is it?

“Alfred Bell” is followed immediately by the album’s stunning closer, the beautiful and dreamlike prog/psych epic “Death of Neil,” with its giant moog chorale chorus wafting in and out of the haze, culminating in a coda of backwards vocals like the Beatles “Rain” reprogrammed by Lamb Lies Down era Genesis.  It’s a truly trippy mind-blower weaving paisley spiderwebs of absinthe in your cerebral cortex.  And if you understand that, you’re already in the right frame of mind.

UPDATE:  I'M SORRY, BUT I CAN NO LONGER AFFORD THE RISK TO SHIP TO ITALY, DUE TO THE CORRUPT POSTAL SYSTEM (THERE, NOT HERE).  IT HAS ALREADY COST ME TOO MUCH MONEY IN LOST SHIPMENTS.  SORRY!

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