Pearls Before Swine ● 1967 One Nation Underground / 1968 Balaklava ● Birdsong / Hayabusa Landings Inc. Japan 2010

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Pearls Before Swine ● 1967 One Nation Underground / 1968 Balaklava
Birdsong / Hayabusa Landings Inc. Japan 2010

Исполнитель:
Pearls Before Swine
Альбомы:
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1967 One Nation Underground (Birdsong / Hayabusa Landings Japan 2010)
Birdsong / Hayabusa Landings Inc. Japan HYCA-2030
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1968 Balaklava (Birdsong / Hayabusa Landings Japan 2010)
Birdsong / Hayabusa Landings Inc. Japan HYCA-2031
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Информация:
Birdsong / Hayabusa Landings Inc.
Made in Japan
Жанр: Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Psychedelic Folk
Год: 2010
Формат: FLAC / Level 8 (img + *cue + log, AccurateRip)
Качество: lossless
Covers: format PNG 600dpi, full scans
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Reissue featuring cardboard sleeve (mini LP). Part of a two-album Pearls Before Swine Cardboard sleeve (mini LP) reissue series featuring the albums "One Nation Underground" and "Balaklava."

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Pearls Before Swine - американская фолк-роковая психоделик-сюрреалистическая группа. Образовалась в середине 60-х годов. Просуществовала около 10 лет. Большое внимание обращала на тексты своих композиций (тексты чаще всего антивоеннные, что неудивительно для эпохи хиппи). Отличалась аскетичностью в использовании звуковых эффектов. Лиричность и несложная музыкальная структура сочетается со звучанием нетрадиционных инструментов. Лидер команды - Том Рапп. В 1965 в городке Eau Gallie (ныне пригород Melbourne, Florida) Tom собирает первый состав Pearls Before Swine. С друзьями по высшей школе Wayne Harley (banjo, mandolin), Lane Lederer (bass, guitar) и Roger Crissinger (piano, organ), Rapp сочиняет и записывает несколько песен, которые они посылают на авангардный лейбл ESP-Disk в New York. Фирму они впечатлили, контракт был подписан моментально, и так же быстро записан первый альбом "One Nation Underground"(1967), содержавший вызывавшие множество споров песни протеста, мистицизма, меланхолии и даже обвинявшиеся в непристойности (“Miss Morse”). Тем не менее (а, может, благодаря этому) диск достиг тиража в 200,000 копий, хотя контрактные и менеджментские проблемы не слишком приблизили группу к успеху. Между прочим, обложка альбома использует ту же картину Иеронима Босха "Сад земных наслаждений", что двумя годами позже взяли для своего третьего альбома Deep Purple, только они вставили в картину еще и свою фотографию. Второй диск, более загадочно звучащий и откровенно антивоенный "Balaklava" (1968) был посвящен событиям Крымской войны 1854-го года (для тех, кто забыл русскую историю, напомню: Балаклава - город в юго-западной части Крыма, расположенный на 15 км южнее Севастополя. За героическую оборону в сентябре 1854 года от англо-турецких войск, в которой принимало участие все население города, включая женщин и детей, был прозван "русской Троей", однако все понимали под этой аллегорией вьетнамскую авантюру американцев. Конверт альбома представлял апокалиптические работы Босха и Брейгеля. Сам диск представлял интерпретации Толкиена и Геродота вперемешку с архивными записями 1890-х годов, эклектически аранжированными разнообразными инструментами. В 1969 году группа подписывает контракт с Reprise Records, однако к этому времени все оригинальные участники проекта уходят, и компания фактически заполучает одного Тома Рэппа, который набирает сессионных музыкантов для записей и гастролей. Наиболее известным из них оказывается Jim Fairs, ранее игравший в The Cryan' Shames. Пять альбомов на Reprise были в общем более традиционными по саунду, но содержали уникальную смесь гуманистических и мистических песен с примесью причудливости и непредсказуемости. Некоторые были записаны в Нью-Йорке, другие, например "The Use of Ashes" и "City of Gold" в Nashville со знаменитыми сейшнменами, в том числе Charlie McCoy, Kenny Buttrey, и другими членами Area Code 615. В то время Rapp жил вблизи мыса Canaveral и наблюдал старты американских космических ракет. Песня "Rocket Man" на альбоме "The Use of Ashes", написанная в день, когда Neil Armstrong высадился на Луну, была основана на рассказе американского писателя-фантаста Рэя Брэдбери. Множество других вещей этого периода отражали интерес Рэппа к мистицизму, его взаимоотношения с отцом-алкоголиком и свободной жизни хиппи. Последний альбом для Reprise , "Familiar Songs", был коллекцией перезаписей ранних его записей, и появился как его сольник без ведома автора. В 1971-м Pearls Before Swine в первый раз после перерыва отправились в турне в составе Rapp, Mike Krawitz (piano), Gordon Hayes (bass) и Jon Tooker (guitar). Два следующих альбома снова появились как его сольники на Blue Thumb Records. В это время группа, состоящая из Rapp, Art Ellis (flute), Bill Rollins (bass, cello) и Harry Orlove (guitar, banjo), гастролировала до 1974, в то же время Rapp продолжал выступать соло до финального концерта в 1976 когда он сопровождал Patti Smith. После этого он отошел от музыки и, окончив Brandeis University, стал юристом по гражданским делам. После приглашения журнала Ptolemaic Terrascope, он неожиданно появился в 1997-м на фестивале, Providence, Rhoide Island, с группой своего сына, Shy Camp, и в 1999-м выпустил новый альбом "A Journal of the Plague Year" на знаменитом андерграундном лебле Woronzow. Tom Rapp - один или с группой Pearls Before Swine (которая по сути была набором сессионных музыкантов) - это лучшее из "мистической" фолк/психоделии рубежа 60-70-х годов. Своим вдохновителем их называл даже Дэвид Боуи.

Allmusic.com / Biography by Jason Ankeny
The psychedelic folk band Pearls Before Swine was the brainchild of singer, composer, and cult icon Tom Rapp, born in Bottineau, ND in 1947; after writing his first song at age six, he later began performing at local talent shows, and as a teen, he bested a young Bob Dylan at one such event. Upon relocating to Melbourne, FL, Rapp formed Pearls Before Swine in 1965, recruiting high school friends Wayne Harley, Lane Lederer, and Roger Crissinger to record a demo which he then sent to the ESP-Disk label; the company quickly signed the group, and they soon traveled to New York to record their superb 1967 debut One Nation Underground, which went on to sell some 250,000 copies. The explicitly anti-war Balaklava, widely regarded as Pearls Before Swine's finest work, followed in 1968; the group - by this time essentially comprising Rapp and whoever else was in the studio at the moment - moved to Reprise for 1969's These Things Too, mounting their first-ever tour in the wake of releasing The Use of Ashes a year later. Two more albums, City of Gold and Beautiful Lies You Could Live In, followed in 1971; moving to Blue Thumb, Rapp resurfaced as a solo artist with 1972's Stardancer, but upon the release of Sunforest a year later he then retired from music, subsequently becoming a civil rights attorney. Frequently cited as a key influence by the likes of Damon & Naomi, the Bevis Frond, and the Japanese psych band Ghost, Rapp made an unexpected return to live performance in mid-1998 when he appeared at the Terrastock festival in Providence, RI, joining son Dave and his indie pop band Shy Camp; he soon began work on 1999's A Journal of the Plague Year, his first new LP in over two decades. Constructive Melancholy, a retrospective of Pearls Before Swine's tenure on Reprise, also appeared that same year. This sparked renewed interest in the band, with Water music releasing a box set of the Reprise material in 2003 (Jewels Were the Stars) as well as a set of unreleased demo and live recordings entitled The Wizard of Is. ESP also remastered and combined their first two albums as The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings in 2005.

1967 One Nation Underground
Originally released: ESP Disk US ESP-1054
Original first US pressings were released in a bewildering amount of variations

Allmusic.com / Review by Peter Kurtz
Psychedelic-folk debut from one of the most erudite, literate minds in rock, Thomas D. Rapp (and the first of his ever-changing Swine). Although the songs here lack some cohesion, this is still a stunning piece of work, from the nightmarish sleeve art - the "Hell Panel" from Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century painting "Garden of Delights" - to the strange yet powerful songs. "Another Time," the most memorable selection, is an understated acoustic song, the first that Rapp ever penned, based on his experience in a horrific car crash where he walked away unscathed. Of similar mood is the beautiful "Ballad of an Amber Lady." "Drop Out" is a straightforward song built around a popular credo of the '60s. "Uncle John" is one of the earliest protest songs about the Vietnam War. Strangest (and funniest) of all is "(Oh Dear) Miss Morse," where Rapp adopts a Victorian persona and sounds out the Morse code spelling of F-U-C-K, accompanied by banjo and Farfisa organ. Considering Rapp's fascination with history, it's not surprising that one of the songs here, "I Shall Not Care," features a co-writer credit to "Roman Tombs." The cryptic words that comprise this song's title were discovered on a tomb that dates to the final days of the Roman Empire.
* Roger Crissinger - Clavioline, Clavoline, Composer, Group Member, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Organ
* Wayne Harley - Autoharp, Banjo, Group Member, Harmony, Harp, Mandolin, Oscillator, Vibraphone, Vocals
* Lane Lederer - Bass, Celeste, Composer, Cymbals, Finger Cymbals, Group Member, Guitar, Guitar (Bass), Horn, Horn (English), Sarangui, Vocals
* Tom Rapp - Group Member, Guitar, Vocals
* Warren Smith - Drums, Guest Appearance, Percussion
* Swine Chorus - Harmony, Vocals (Background)

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01 Another Time
02 Playmate
03 Ballad To An Amber Lady
04 (Oh Dear) Miss Morse
05 Drop Out!
06 Morning Song
07 Regions Of May
08 Uncle John
09 I Shall Not Care
10 The Surrealist Waltz

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1968 Balaklava
Originally released: ESP Disk US 1075

Allmusic.com / Review by Peter Kurtz
A record that virtually defies categorization, Pearls Before Swine's 1968 epic Balaklava is the near-brilliant follow-up to One Nation Underground. Intended as a defiant condemnation of the Vietnam War, it doesn't offer anthemic, fist-pounding protest songs. Instead, Rapp vented his anger through surrealist poetry, irony, and historical reference: Balaklava was the 1854 Crimean War battle that inspired Alfred, Lord Tennyson to write his epic The Charge of the Light Brigade; in reality, the "Charge" was a senseless military action that killed scores of British soldiers. Balaklava begins with "Trumpeter Landfrey," an 1880's recording of the actual voice and bugle charge of the man who sounded the charge at Balaklava. It makes the transition into "Translucent Carriages," a mix of acoustic guitars, a basic vocal, and ghostly narration ("Jesus raised the dead...but who will raise the living?"), all the more stunning. "Images of April" continues the mystical feel, combining flutes, cricket chirps, and frog croaks for a nether-worldly effect. Rapp virtually cries "I Saw the World," backed by a powerful string arrangement that makes the song even more impassioned. Like One Nation Underground, Balaklava is somewhat unfocused: "There Was a Man" is a little too Dylan-esque, and Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" detracts from Rapp's compositions. Unfortunately, the record closes with "Ring Thing," a morbid piece that refers to Tolkien's famous Lord of the Rings trilogy. Still, this is superb psychedelic music, successfully merging exotic instruments like marimba, clavinet, French horn, and swinehorn with Rapp's unique lisping vocals. But Balaklava isn't just acid-trip background music. It's probably the best example of what Rapp calls "constructive melancholy" (also the name of a recent CD collection of Pearls songs), a combination of the real with the surreal, and it's indispensable to any serious '60s rock collection.
* Jim Bohannon - Clavinet, Group Member, Marimba, Organ, Piano
* Jim Bohanon - Keyboards / * Lu Crabtree - Flute, Keyboards
* Selwart Clarke - Arranger, String Arrangements, Strings
* Lee Crabtree - Flute, Guest Appearance, Organ, Piano
* Joe Farrell - Flute, Guest Appearance, Horn, Horn (English), Wind
* Wayne Harley - Banjo, Group Member, Harmony, Vocal Harmony, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
* Lane Lederer - Bass, Group Member, Guitar, Horn, Vocals
* Tom Rapp - Breathing, Group Member, Guitar, Noise, Vocals
* Bill Salter - Bass, Guest Appearance / * William Salter - Bass
* Al Shackman - Guest Appearance, Guitar / * Warren Smith - Arranger, Strings

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01 Trumpeter Landfrey...
02 Translucent Carriages
03 Images Of April
04 There Was A Man
05 I Saw The World
06 Guardian Angels
07 Suzanne
08 Lepers And Roses
09 Florence Nightingale
10 Ring Thing

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