HIGH TIDE Sea Shanties - Orig UK LP - Heavy Prog Psych Hawkwind Misunderstood

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	$		301

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HIGH TIDE

Sea Shanties

Original UK LP released on Liberty Records in 1969. Gatefold sleeve. original blue & white, polylined innersleeve.

LBS 83264 A//1   /   LBS 83264 B//1

With the Misunderstood, Tony Hill co-wrote epochal psych-rock anthems like "Children of the Sun"; however, while High Tide's sound has roots in the peace-and-love era, the band was also in tune with the post-psychedelic comedown at the decade's darker end.

On Sea Shanties, there's nothing fey and flowery in Hill's bleak lyrics or his doomy delivery, and psychedelia's melodic whimsy is supplanted by a physicality more in line with the visceral heft of metal progenitors such as Cream, Blue Cheer, and the Jeff Beck Group. Hill's grinding riffage and searing, effects-laden guitar pyrotechnics combine with the punishing rhythms of drummer Roger Hadden and bassist Pete Pavli to forge some of the heavier sounds to emerge from Britain in 1969: tracks like "Futilist's Lament" are matched only by Led Zeppelin for sheer weight.

High Tide weren't a power trio, though, and it was the interplay of Hill's guitar with Simon House's violin that created the band's unique signature. Showing that rock violin needn't be a marginal adornment, House whips up an aggressive edge that rivals the guitar: on the nine-minute "Death Warmed Up," House refuses to play second fiddle and matches Hill's scorching assault all the way, while on the album's other epic, "Missing Out," the violin generates a trance-inducing Eastern groove.

High Tide had the muscularity of a no-nonsense proto-metal band, but they also ventured into prog territory with changing time signatures and tempos, soft-hard dynamics, multi-part arrangements, and even some ornate faux-Baroque interludes. Indeed, "Pushed, but Not Forgotten" and "Walking Down Their Outlook" share common ground with King Crimson (especially Crimson's mid-'70s work with violinist David Cross). Far from the collection of nautical ditties its name suggests, Sea Shanties is an overlooked gem encapsulating the shifting musical currents in late-'60s British rock.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Futilist's Lamen

Death Warmed Up

Pushed, But Not Forgotten

Side Two

Walking Down Their Outlook

Missing Out

Nowhere

Released on 'Liberty Records' in 1969

Catalogue No. LBS 83264

Disc is in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX+ condition (small sticker tear on front corner, but this is otherwise a very well looked after copy)

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