MOE WHITTEMORE 1st Album SEALED 700 West ZERFAS Private

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Here for offer is an original U.S. limited issue private press LP entitled

MO - FIRST ALBUM

***SEALED NEVER OPENED UNPLAYED**

NOTE: If this first description looks familiar to the one posted on the 700 West website (which I highly recomend that you check out), it's because it is my description from March of 2003 that I wrote for a previous copy of this rarely offered LP sold by me here on eBay.

LIMITED PRESS LP
200-300 COPIES ONLY*
*Moe says he can't exactly recall, but he knows it was either 200 or 300 copies maximum)

Released in 1976 by multi-talented 700 West producer (and all around nice guy)
Maurice "Moe" J. Whittemore Jr.
entitled "Mo - First Album"
This album is on 700 West Records
(catalog number 760704 STEREO)
700 West Studios & Moe Whittemore are from the heart of the midwest, Indianapolis, Indiana (New Palestine to be exact) and have been recognized the world over for such projects as ZERFAS (a 1973 psych monster), PRIMEVIL (a hardrock guitar driven classic) MODLIN/SCOTT, AMNESTY (soul/funk), BUCCANEER, MICHAEL HENDERSON and many more too numerous to mention!
This is a tuff album to find, and even tougher to define musically... but 'll try! It really has to be heard to be believed!
First off, Moe pressed this limited edition lp as "A Collection Of Publisher's Demos" as he calls it... and Oh My Brother... is it all around the board!! All material is credited to M. Whittemore as writer/composer. Moe plays all keyboads on the LP, including a home-built synthesizer that'll mess up your mind, electric oboe, and we're also treated to Moe's vocal styings as well... shades of Robert Wyatt definitely come to mind when Moe takes lead vocal!!
We are also treated to a cool R&B flavored track entitled "Make A Little Wine" (one of Moe's hobbies - to the delight of most everyone who had the privilege of gracing the 700 West studios through the years) featuring the ZERFAS brothers, David on drums and Herman on lead vocals respectively. BTW, the open drum break that starts the track off is to die for! Another fun note is that all cover art is credited to Mookie, Goog, Busk & Boo (Moe's then young children), and in turn, all Moe's children are then credited to his wife Betty (nice touch, Moe!)
Get ready for everything from avant-garde electronica to a soul/funk-psych freakout, and all points in between!!!

Here's a review for this LP that is posted on the awesome website: indiana45s.com :

Moe Whittemore's first and only album on his own 700 West label is one of Indiana's oddest left-field rarity. Ostensibly a selection of publishers demos, the album was rumored to have been printed in a very small run. The style runs the gamut from beat-heavy progressive rock on "Nowhere To Go" and "Slammer" to futuristic space noodlings on "K2- 3rd Movement". "Congratulations" sounds like a lost Pink Floyd out-take from Dark Side of the Moon. The final track on side A -- Muscle Pumpkin is thinly veiled ode to Captain Beefheart -- sounding like a Trout Mask Replica attack complete with choral background singers and Ornette Coleman oboe (courtesy Mo) The flip is dominated by more "normal" songs, including drum-heavy "Make a Little Wine" which saw some local airplay as a 45 rpm release back in 1976. It begins with a monstrous break-beat that sounds like bong-smoking noises in the background. Two country songs follow. Anthony Black of Lamp Records fame (Tony Black and the Revolution) provides vocals on the sweet soul masterpiece of Indianapolis -- "Check Me Out." All in all, the album is something between a demo to promote his recording studio and a library record of styles. Absolutely recommended to beat heads, library collectors and psych fans.

The album will come packed in a custom LP mailer and additionally protected with dual 12x12 squares of corrugated cardboard to protect your LP while in transit.

THIS ORIGINAL ALBUM IS
***STILL SEALED***
!!!UNPLAYED!!!

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