YEZDA URFA BORIS original 75 PRIVATE PSYCH PROG DEMO NM

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YEZDA URFA - BORIS (PRIVATE PRESS) 1975




A VERY RARE ORIGINAL LP COPY (NOT THE "ANAZITISI" 180G REISSUE!) YEZDA URFA "BORIS" LP FROM 1975. THIS PRESSING ON PRIVATE LABEL WAS USED AS A DEMO TO TRY TO SNAG A RECORDING CONTRACT. (READ REVIEW BELOW FROM: GNOSIS AND HISTORY FROM YEZDA URFA BAND MEMBER) VINYL IS IN NICE SHAPE!


"This was a demo album put together by ourselves. We had wanted to make a good recording, showing off our music, with the hope that someone of influence would eventually hear the album and get us a recording deal. It finally happened, but it took over 10 years and long after the band's demise...
This album was recorded in about three days in a professional studio in Chicago. However, this studio was normally used for commercials and other, more "normal" recording, and they were quite amazed at our music, our long hair, and our crazy antics.
Three of the five pieces on this album were reworked and appeared on our second album, Sacred Baboon. There are only a few copies of this album left".Unfortunately, this item is out of print. It has become a collector's time. Some copies have sold for thousands of dollars. You may find a copy occasionally offered on eBay". - YEZDA URFA BAND MEMBER

Mike McLatchey 27-April-2001 Boris


"Unheralded in their day and basically only known now for their belated second album Sacred Baboon, Yezda Urfa were one of the finest American progressive rock groups of the 70s. Their extremely rare debut album Boris has long been an in-demand collectors item and for good reason. It shows the band in a slightly rawer early stage performing five tracks that would later be rearranged for Sacred Baboon. Sacred Baboon, of course, is a very fine album in its own right, but I prefer Boris for its more immediate intensity. Yezda Urfa's brand of dazzlingly complex, Yes-influenced symphonic rock is an exercise in mad genius and rare dexterity. Often played at frantic speeds, the quintet rips through long (except the banjo stomp "Texas Armadillo") compositions of key and time changes like they spent every minute of those years practicing them. Suffice it to say that there isn't a second of this that doesn't awe you with their prowess, as they tear mercilessly through 32nd note speed riffs, contrapuntal craziness and jagged start/stops. It all leaves one completely breathless in the end and ready for more. Although the album is a $1500 collectors item. One of progressive rock's last unreissued masterpieces"







Condition:

Record: VG
Cover: VG


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