“RARE BIRD” psych prog LP PROBE gatefold orig ‘69 NM 1st press A1/B1

$

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Artist(s):   RARE BIRD  

Title:  “Rare Bird”

Year:  1969.

Label:  PROBE/ABC.  Stereo pressing on medium thick vinyl.  Label is black with silver and red text.  Catalog number is CPLP-4514. 

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

A gorgeous disc for the “mint fanatic”.

JACKET:  Gatefold jacket is nice VG+ with clean bright artwork.   Outer panels show some light ring wear.  Inside gatefold is clean and pristine.  Seams, spine, and corners show light wear, but no splits.  Upper left corner has tiny cut-out drill hole.  No writing, stickers, or other issues.  Overall a very fine jacket.  

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Beautiful Scarlet
• Sympathy
• Natures Fruit
• Bird on a Wing
• God of War

Side Two:

• Iceberg
• Times
• You Went Away
• Melanie

Review:

“This debut featured an organist and an electric pianist, but no guitarist, resulting in a moody Hammond-heavy album from a band that would later become more progressive and varied in its sound.  "Beautiful Scarlet" shifts easily from histrionic soul to offhanded slow-four interludes, and the instrumental "Iceberg" shows off the organist Graham Field and the rest of band's chops well.  The whispered vocals and weird background noises of "God of War" achieves the kind of creepy gloom appropriate to an era of carpet bombing and napalm.  Indeed, the production and instrumentation of this album makes it very much of a period piece, though certainly not in any derogatory sense.”

(courtesy Paul Collins, allmusic.com)

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