LP NICHOLAS GREENWOOD Cold Cuts - Re-Release - Akarma AK 289 - MINT/

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LP NICHOLAS GREENWOOD

Cold Cuts

Country of release: Italy, 2004

Original released: 1973

Label: Akarma

Catalogue number: AK 289

Barcode: 8026575289116

Klappcover/Gatefold Sleeve: Nein/No

 Condition Record: MINT

Condition Cover: MINT

  LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!

(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)

Tracks Side 1:

 1. A Sea Of Holy Pleasure Parts I, II, III (7:17)

2. Hope / Ambitions (2:51)

3. Corruption (3:10)

4. Lead On Me (3:49)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Big Machine (2:18)

2. Close The Doors (4:29)

3. Melancholy (3:20)

4. Images (3:25)

5. Promised Land (3:10)

6. Realisation And Death (5:14)

Listen At YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdWP9qeM8_0

Nick Greenwood was first known to be part of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, playing with Vincent Crane (Atomic Rooster) and Carl Palmer (Atomic Rooster and ELP) and stayed longer than those two until midway through 1970. He was latter part of Khan with Steve Hillage and Dave Stewart. After the demise of Khan, Nick Greenwood (this is the only time he is mentioned as Nick instead of Nicholas) took Khan-drummer Eric Peachy and enlisted Dick Heningway on keyboards and reedman Bunk Gardner (ex-Zappa and Ex-Tim Buckley) and recorded his only solo album, which developed an organ-driven type of brass-rock somewhere between Atomic Rooster, Arzachel, Khan and If. (minutegongcoughs)


Greenwood chose to record a solo album, and to that end brought together a crack band of sessionmen. Even for its time the resulting Cold Cuts set was way out there, a mighty slab of psychedelia-laced prog rock that soared into musical recesses seldom explored.

Besides showcasing Greenwood's superb bass skills, fans are also surprisingly treated to his vocals -- surprising, because Greenwood was not previously known as a singer. He acquits himself quite spectacularly here, his delivery as powerful on the rockier numbers as it is nuanced and introspective on the proggier songs. Yet, what really captures one's attention is the interplay between keyboardist Dick Henningham, guitarist Bryn Howarth, and Bunk Gardner's woodwinds.

Henningham easily reaches the majestic peaks of the showier Keith Emerson, but without the pomposity, however what he mostly brings to the table is a funky style that shimmers into blues and jazz and plays havoc with one's preconceptions of psych or prog. Overhead, Gardner's various woodwinds dip and soar, while Howarth's lead guitar strikes and sears the air and the string section sounds out.

But it's how arranger Charles Lamont fits together these myriad musical pieces that is so fascinating. Moods flicker and shift, atmospheres thicken then dissipate, instruments come to the fore then disappear, yet somehow the numbers all hold together, as does the set as a whole. The playing is phenomenal -- arguably this set features Howarth's best work, while Henningham, who co-wrote the album, is absolutely stupendous.

Greenwood virtually disappeared from view after the release of this album, perhaps because there was nowhere to go from it. Having wrung every ounce of creativity from himself, then brought out the very best in all his sessionmen, what was possibly left to do? Even so, poor sales, possibly due to the album's strikingly revolting cover, resigned Cold Cuts to cult collector's status, but this masterpiece deserved better, and with its reissue perhaps it will finally get its due.
(Jo-Ann Greene/rockasteria.blogspot.de)


Nicholas Greenwood - Vocals, Bass, Effects
Bryn Haworth - Guitar
Chris Pritchard - Guitar
Dick Heninghem - Keyboards
Eric Peachey - Drums
Bunk Gardner - Woodwind
Janet Lakatos - Strings
Margaret Immerman - Strings
Margaret Shipman - Strings
Nils Oliver - Strings
The Tear Drops - Harmony Vocals

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