Lot 11ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND-BROTHERS AND SISTERS-1973-FIRST PRESS UK-CAPRICORN-NMINT/NMINT

KING CRIMSON - IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1975-HOLLAND-ISLAND-88166XAT. In the Court of the Crimson King is the debut Studio album by the British band King Crimson, released in 1969. The album ranked fifth in the list of Top 25 best albums of progressive rock version Progarchives.com. This drive has had a big and unusually strong influence on the development of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and heavy metal. The album was recorded with exceptional musicality, the poetics of texts. While some rock groups (e.g., Pink Floyd) were prone to writing long songs, while others tried to hold in a rock song freedom jazz forms (Frank Zappa), in the Court of the Crimson King group used a bizarre poetry blakowski nightmares, visions, and premonitions. The group is always attributed to so-called genre of "intelligent heavy metal", and their very first album, created this genre, and also advanced music idea forward on several fronts. The album opens with the song "21st Century Schizoid Man", which is characterized by the use of heavily distorted vocals, deliberately monotonous, mechanical rhythm and piercingly loud saxophone and guitar. The rhythm is specified as the first song, suddenly gives way to a soft melodic calm "I Talk to the Wind". Air psychedelic piece "Moonchild" is completed with free form improvisation. In "Epitaph" and the title "The Court of The Crimson King" " the group used in the orchestration of the Mellotron. ...more

ROUSSOS,DEMIS-HAPPY TO BE-1976-FIRST UK PRESS-PHILIPS-9101027. Matrix A-4/B-2. Rare British original. Roussos has achieved great success in the UK in November 1975 with the song Happy To Be On An Island In The Sun. In June 1976 came the album which reached the first place in British hit-parade. ...more

HAMMILL, PETER-FUTURE NOW-1978 - FIRST UK PRESS-CHARISMA - CAS1137. Rare British original frontman of VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR. The Future Now is the seventh Studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1978. It was the first solo album Hammill released after the breakup of his band Van der Graaf Generator in 1978, although he has released many solo albums, when they were active. On the cover of the album features pictures of Brian Griffin, which depicts Peter Hammill with a half shaven mustache and beard. ...more

GILMOUR, DAVID-ABOUT FACE-1984-FIRST GERMANY PRESS-HARVEST-1C064-2400791. Rare German in archive condition. The album reached 21st position in the USA and 32nd in the UK. 19 April 1995 American Association of record companies gave the album gold status. ...more

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER-PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-1971-FIRST UK PRESS-ISLAND - HELP1. Matrix A-1U/B-1U. Rare British original. Pictures at an Exhibition - the third album of the English band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1971. The album was recorded in March 1971, live at the concert in Newcastle. The drive took 10-th place in the American Billboard 200 chart. ...more