MINT ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY WHITE BIRD 1969 SF PSYCH

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RARE MINT Super Sound Japanese Collectible                                

  SF PSYCH GEM!                                        

       It's A Beautiful Day

...Japan SONY Records -M 395

BEAUTIFUL MINT old Japan deluxe issue (rare 38+ years old pressing) with thick gatefold cover and superior SUPER SOUND recording that blows away the USA pressing...the recording is on par with the MObile Fidelity MASTERS, where you can here all the little on going things in the background & super  wide range high definition sound quality ~~ the classic first album by It's A Beautiful Day, featuring all the ingrediants to uplift your mood and sweep you away...

Comes with TWO special photo & lyrics large inserts

It certainly is a Beautiful Day and a pretty unique album at that. There have really been few attempts at merging the classic psychedelic sounds of mid-Sixties San Francisco bands with the pretentious art rock experiments of their British colleagues, and even fewer ones that really worked - this excellent debut, which It's A Beautiful Day were never really able to top, is one of the exceptions. Yes, David LaFlamme and his crew do have a style of their own, but it's nigh near impossible to define in a few words, so many different elements it is comprised of.

Basically the album excells in high vibes hippie ideology, soaring instrumentations and wonderful melodics that capture the mind and senses...real captivating stuff...The epic "White Bird" being the albums tour-de-force is still as thrillingly pleasurable -- even after near 40 years ... There's even a terrific hard psych nugget buried within called "Wasted Union Blues"  It's bluesy, maybe even rock'n'rolly in places; it's utterly chaotic in other places; and they manage to get just about the ugliest guitar tone imaginable for the opening riffs, dissonating like mad with the general beauty and smoothness of the picture. It shows these guys weren't afraid to try anything and weren't intending to completely shut themselves off in innocent rosy-cheeked fairy land.

The first two songs on here set the scene - organs, pianos, celestes, and violins a-plenty, great vocals from David LaFlamme and Pattie Santos (duet on the former, call-and-answer mostly on the latter), beautiful, inspiring, memorable melodies, clever dynamics, you name it. First-grade late-Sixties art-rock. Amazing how every song on the album is so carefully thought over. Even a "trifle" like the harpsichord-dominated 'Girl With No Eyes' turns out to possess a beautiful baroque style melody at the end; it's just subtler and shorter than the rest, so it's natural that you don't really notice it until the rest has sunk in. Then, of course, there's 'Bombay Calling' - a remarkable play of wordless lyrics the band deliver in formidable layered passages that the listener wouldn't mind hearing over and over. This is such a "little", friendly, free flowing album, humble even, despite the grandness of the vocal parts and the occasional epic length of a song played wonderously by the band...

White Bird (Linda LaFlamme-David LaFlamme)
Hot Summer Day (Linda LaFlamme-David LaFlamme)
Wasted Union Blues (David LaFlamme)
Girl With No Eyes (Linda LaFlamme-David LaFlamme)
Bombay Calling (Vince Wallace-David LaFlamme)
Bulgaria (David LaFlamme)
Time Is (David LaFlamme)

 

CONDITION: The thick gatefold cover is MINT all-around solid and highly collectible ...no splits, no bends, no writing, Looks TERRIFIC !

The vinyl, nice, with high glossy shine, "MINT" (excellent) expect playback to be THE BEST you ever heard this classic '69 West Coast album sound!

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

 

EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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Japanese vinyl releases are premium quality pressings, much sought after by audiophiles and collectors alike. In the 1960s Toshiba pioneered top quality red vinyl pressings using their trademark ‘Ever-Clean’ process this utilised a special ingredient intended to prevent the build-up of static electricity on the vinyl. Japanese pressings are synonymous with quality - the vinyl shines like no other vinyl - everything about their releases feels special. When US audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab first released their series of high quality pressings the records were manufactured in Japan. The sonic quality of Japanese pressings is considered to be among the best in the world...thus this pressing is essentail for the super-sound sonics found within the first >IT's A BEAUTIFUL DAY< classic