Focus - Moving Waves - Genuine MINT Blue Horizon Label 1971 UK First Issue LP
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Artist & Title: Focus – Moving Waves
Rare MINT 1971 UK first issue 6-track LP on the blue and white Blue Horizon label, in the original MINT picture sleeve complete with original MINT inner sleeve. Includes the full 6’ 35” version of 'Hocus Pocus'.
The sleeve looks like new and the vinyl looks – and sounds – flawless. A superb copy!
Highly desirable for its A//1&B//1 first issue matrices, Blue Horizon label and flawless Mint condition vinyl and increasingly difficult to find in reasonable condition, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this superb rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price
Catalogue Number: Blue Horizon ?– 2931 002, Blue Horizon ?– 2931-002
Release date: October 1971
Overall Grade: MINT/MINT (LP/Cover)
Matrix/Runout: Side 1: 2431011 A//1?420 1 3 5 Side 2: 2431011 B//1?420 1 1 23
First cat.nr. on cover, second on label.
On the back cover the movements for “Eruption” are listed as ''I, II, III, IIII, IV''
Recorded in Sound Techniques and Morgan Studios, London between April 13th and May 14th 1971.
? 1971
Britico
Radio Tele
Manufactured by Polydor Records Ltd.
Note: The very first issue had Blue Horizon white/blue label as here. This copy has two slightly different label designs on the A and B side both of which are known to have been used for the first pressing. See pics.
The Blue Horizon label ceased production in 1972, and all its titles are collectible today.
This is the original UK version of the album.
This essential Focus LP from the band’s creative peak is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.
“Moving Waves contains some killer prog moments with classical piano and outrageous guitar riffs.”
This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine Mint/Mint condition UK first issue. The record, cover and inner sleeve are all in superb condition, without any obvious defects like scratches, tears, creases, stickers, writing, dog ears, stains and the like. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1971 not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original UK 1971 stereo LP, which was only played a few times on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.
THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS ESSENTIAL SYMPHONIC PROG ROCK ALBUM EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN RECENT TIMES
Moving Waves is the second studio album from the Dutch rock band Focus. The album includes the hit "Hocus Pocus" and "Eruption", a 23-minute adaptation of Jacopo Peri's opera Euridice which tells the story of Orpheus and Euridice. Moving Waves (also known as Focus II) was released in October 1971 to positive critical reception. It went on to reach the top ten in the UK, US and the Netherlands.
The aforementioned "Hocus Pocus" is Focus' biggest hit and has gained the band great popularity. The song, similar in some regards to the riff-driven hard rock of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, anticipated many aspects of 1980s heavy metal music (it was later covered by Iron Maiden), and especially the guitar work of Yngwie Malmsteen with Akkerman's use of the harmonic minor and Hungarian minor scales, uncommon in rock music in the 1970s.
The album peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart, number 8 on the US Billboard 200, and number 9 on the Dutch Top 40 chart.
“This Netherlandish progressive masterpiece is one of the most hard rock progressive albums made during that era”
This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of rock history in this condition.
The album that boosted Focus into fame outside of continental Europe, Moving Waves blasts off with their hit single, "Hocus Pocus." Built around a killer guitar hook by Jan Akkerman and a series of solo turns by the band, this instrumental replaced "Wipeout" as a staple of FM radio. The bizarrely hilarious vocal and accordion solos by Thijs van Leer -- one of which absurdly concludes with rousing stadium cheers -- have to be heard to be believed. After this over-the-top performance, the other tracks seem comparatively constrained: the gentle "Le Clochard" features some gorgeous classical guitar over Mellotron strings. The album concludes with "Eruption," which while mimicking the multi-suite nomenclature of Yes and King Crimson, is essentially a side-long jam session. Stop-time Emersonian organ solos alternate with languid sections of jazzy guitar redolent of Santana, while still other sections are flat-out electric blues-rock stomps. It's impressive playing, though it comes off as a bit meandering after the tightly structured solos that began the album.
“If you have Hamburger Concerto, or Focus III, and don't own this... buy it!”
A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!
AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION
You can read more about this album and Focus all over the web.
I pack my records professionally in stiff corrugated cruciform record boxes leaving the Vinyl (housed in anti-static bags) outside the Sleeve.
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