MINT 2xLP LTD ED RARE UK '71 LP + RARITIES = COMUS FIRST UTTERANCE ACID FOLK

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Mar 24, 2019 Sold Date

Mar 21, 2019 Start Date

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RARE long gone TWO-RECORDS limited gem

1971 "MONSTER" RATED BRITISH FOLK-PSYCH

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COMUS

"FIRST UTTERANCE"

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Europe - "Get" 541

MINT TOP COPY!

Here is a long long gone, limited edition (TWO RECORD SET) issued in Europe some 15+ years ago... an impressive GATEFOLD, includes fabulous sounding audio to the complete legendary album that sells for $1000 and highly wanted - BUT - also includes RARE previously UNRELEASED tracks on a bonus second record - only available with this pressing! It's perfect MINT - see below.

Includes the scarce custom lyrics inner sleeves, essential to the read-along experience of the album!

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"First Utterance" is an album you may end up rarely listening to except for special occasions - and for good reason. It's pagan intensity and fixation with dark subjects can seem ghoulish and absurd at times; however, whenever you do put this album on, it's an event, a trip to a cold mountaintop' a sacrifice.

And it is a sacrifice well worth the time. "First Utterance: by COMUS is epic and ferocious, burning kind of fury with the peak of which is rarely reached by even the most misanthropic of underground bands, but also rewards a gentle feeling type of sound. While the use of violence isn't necessarily something you may tend to gravitate towards, "First Utterance" has a strange poignancy here. Something about the dark events that occur' rape, horrific acts of violence, martyrdom, and losing one's sanity' make those serene moments ever-gripping. The lonely violin solo in 'The Herald' is reminiscent of a passage in Elie Weisel's harrowing holocaust tome 'Night' in which one of the characters, after having run with a group of other prisoners in the snow to the next concentration camp, plays his violin solemnly in a mass of dead and dying prisoners' he eventually breaths his last with his violin in hand.

This contrast is what makes this album great. Comus taps the wild and tranquil sides of folk music. Guitarist/vocalist Roger Wootten howls and yells like a viscous animal, while soprano Bobbie Watson lullubies like a virginal siren. Instrument technique and recording quality is rough and untamed, but the songs are expertly arranged and performed in such a way that I couldn't imagine any other band playing these songs.

From the swampy upward trudge of 'Diana,' to the savage insanity of 'The Prisoner,' First Utterance is a violent, dark, and strange, but ultimately poignant journey through pagan folk music.

Also, for those interested, the rare B-sides of this alternate TWO-LP album are also fantastic and definitely worth checking out

Overall, highest rating by many - this is considered a real masterpiece , a gem , a diamond , an enormous find. Originally recorded in 1971, the LP is one of the most accomplished prog-folk album ever. There are two singers , the female having a rather standard folk rock voice such as Celia Humphries (the Trees) or Jacqui McShee (Pentangle) and the male sounding like some kind of Roger Chapman of Family on acid. The lyrics are demonic (not satanic) and the poetry is as good as Gabriel or Tull's Tramp or Hastings but in a very dark way - but would not classify as gothic either. The music is very acoustical - one might say folkish without sounding celtic or rural music. Somehow the music escapes a real description unless by comparing it to "Trespass" (Genesis) or either "Trees" album -- or maybe also Spirogyra's debut album "St Radiguns."

The lyrics are in a sharp contrast to this pastoral feel and this is what makes it fabulous . "Drip Drip" and "The Herald" are pure heavenly chills down the listeners spine, yelling for murder curses and other joyful Christian things.

Stupendous and flabbergasting how this did not become huge back then, even with the no-commercial appeal sound, but understand that there was a sheer quantity of quality records coming out in the early '70s - and some disappeared without a trace -- as it is the case with this one.

Anyway, if you must discover one album this year , maybe make it this one

Diana (4:37)

The Herald (12:12)

Drip Drip (10:54)

Song To Comus (7:30)

The Bite (5:26)

Bitten (2:15)

The Prisoner (6:14)

Bonus tracks on second disc (UNRELEASED) :

Diana (single version) (4:24)

In The Lost Queen's Eye (2:49)

Winter Is A Coloured Bird (8:00)

CONDITION: The cover: Glossy impressive GATEFOLD cover, MINT rating, 4 sharp corners ...There are no solid seams, no faded colors, no bends, no writing, no delete marks ...

The vinyl: both LP's, all 4 sides are THICK (weighty 180 gram pressing), rated: M- a beauty, far be it to find a better copy or affordable '71 issue.
All 4 "Get" labels are clean

A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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