NATIONAL HEALTH: 1978 UK AFFINITY 1st PRESS NR MINT
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£ 25
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Apr 1, 2011
Sold Date
Mar 22, 2011
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£ 22
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NATIONAL HEALTH: 1978 UK AFFINITY 1st PRESS NR MINT
BARELY PLAYED, BEAUTIFUL COPY, EX CANTURBUY SCENE LP
NATIONAL HEALTH
National Health
ORIGINAL UK AFFINITY (AFF 6) FIRST PRESSING (October 1978) OF NATIONAL HEALTH'S EPONYMOUS DEBUT LP - IN BEAUTIFUL, BARELY PLAYED CONDITION DELIVERING CLEAN AUDIO THROUGHOUT - FANTASTIC COPY OF THIS WONDERFUL PIECE OF WORK - COMPLETELY OVERLOOKED AT THE TIME RELEASED, AS IT WAS, AT THE HIGHT OF THE PUNK/NEW WAVE EXPLOSION WHEN RECORDS LIKE THIS WERE COMPLETELY UNCOOL
PRESSED ON QUALITY MID/HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH THE FIRST ISSUE GREY AFFINITY LABELS
MATRIX: AFF 6 A1 / AFF 6 B1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SINGLE SLEEVE "Printed and made in England by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd., London SE9 2EQ"
The first National Health album couldn't have come at a worse time, just when punk and new wave were the musical orders of the day.
This swan song of the fecund Canterbury Scene is ultra-serious, and determined to show its musical prowess by frequent, complex changes of time signature, dense, convoluted arrangements, and frightening technical ability.
In that regard it differed from the main ethos of Canterbury prog rock and fusion, which had offered a whimsical, often surreal hippie vision of the world, never taking itself too seriously (if you like, its antecedent was really an earlier group of keyboard player Dave Stewart, Egg).
Because of its attitude, the opening epic, "Tenemos Roads," stands head and shoulders above the rest of the disc, suffused with both light and space, and lifting into a breathless atmosphere when singer Amanda Parsons enters.
Melody is the key, and the track has plenty of them, mostly from Stewart and keyboard "guest" (and former member) Alan Gowen, who also shares compositional credits for much of the disc
Track Listing:
Side 1: Tenemos Roads (14:43) / Brujo (10:19)
Side 2: Borogroves (Excerpt From Part Two) (4:16) / Borogroves (Part One) (6:37) / Elephants (14:37)
LABELS: Clean, bright, fresh and unmarked labels with just a few light spindle traces - NEAR MINT
VINYL Visual: The vinyl surfaces are clean, fresh, unmarked and shine like-new - MINT
VINYL Audio: Outstanding audio - crystal clear, beautiful rich and warm and on playback at a loud volume there are no major audio issues of note - it plays beautifully throughout to just about the highest possible standard with all frequencies bright and clear. Critically graded NEAR MINT for audio this is a superb copy of this wonderful LP - very, very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: The single sleeve is also in beautiful condition - clean, crisp, fresh and unmarked with just one very light crease but otherwise unworn - NEAR MINT
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