Arcadium - Breathe Awhile (UK HEAVY PROGRESSIVE LEGEND 1969 ORIGINAL 1st press

	€		775
	$		841

• Label: Middle Earth MDLS302, GB 1969       
• Zustand: 
  Record: overall a vg+ w.only a few very light marks, but B4 has one visible mark, which causes 2 x a loud "pop"
  Cover: vg++ (no tears, seam splits etc...)
• Kommentar: guaranteed ORIGINAL Copy, as I bought this in the mid-seventies, when nobody knew about this band!
  Released on an aqua blue Middle Earth Label in a laminated cover. Counterfeits have white labels. 
  review from juliancope:
  This is an impossibly rare and expensive album that sells for the $500 mark, I must admit I'm a bit skeptical about a lot of these monster psych albums, but a friend of mine taped this Arcadium album for me and you know what?, this album is fantastic from back to front. Pressed on poor quality vinyl on the tiny Middle Earth label you hear plenty of cracks and pops but that's okay because the music is faultless.
  Arcadium were a five piece led by one Miguel Sergides who sings plays guitar and wrote all 7 tracks on the record he is joined by Robert Ellwood-gtr, Graham Best-bass, John Albert Parker on drums and Alan Ellwood on keyboards, his doomy organ playing is a real focal point in the band's sound.
  Side One opens ominously with a slow burn bad trip number called "On My Way" which clocks in at over 9 minutes, this track has an early Doors quality to it and also reminds me of things on UFO's second album "Flying", the song keeps building and building into a full blown nightmare, Sergides' vocals sound like a man who has a lot of bad things on his mind, sure he's on his way, but to where?
  "Poor Lady" is an exciting and convincing psych-rocker with great backup vocals and some wonderful guitar fills, this sounds like USA group Spirit circa 1968. "Walk On The Bad Side" is a Procol Harum meets Peter Hammill bummer ballad with some nice organ touches the song really ignites about midway through into another full on acid-rocker.
  "Woman Of A Thousand Years" is not the Danny Kirwan penned Fleetwood Mac song but an absolutely eerie mid paced original, the highlight of the song are the haunting background vocals. "Change Me" begins in the group's usual doomy fashion with organ and what sounds like an electric sitar, the singer again sounds like he's fighting a losing with life and on the verge of collapse.
  "It Takes A Woman" picks up the pace a bit, it opens with some energetic guitar/organ interplay and then really catches fire, the guitar chords sound like The Association's "Along Comes Mary" while the organ brings to mind the mood of the second Terry Reid album.
  The album finishes with it's best song called "Birth, Life and Death" a 10 plus minute psychedelic tour de force that begins with air raid sirens then shifts dramatically into a blazing acid drenched guitar/organ workout, the piece slows down at about 5 minutes in and becomes a diseased Van Der Graaf Generator type thing in the "Pawn Hearts" frame of mind, the song's coda is a spooky death dirge that leaves you feeling quite unsettled, the singers are all chanting "Goodbye, Goodbye My World". This record is no day at the beach, in fact I think I'm going to sleep with a nightlight on tonight, but it is a really convincing blast of dark psychedelia that you may want to take in small doses.
• Tracks:
  A1 I'm On My Way 11:52 A2 Poor Lady 3:58 A3 Walk On The Bad Side 7:30 B1 Woman Of A Thousand Years 4:00 B2 Change Me 4:45 B3 It Takes A Woman 4:05 B4 Birth, Life And Death 10:45

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Ich biete nur originale LP's an.
I am offering only original LP's.

Zustandbeschreibung: erst LP dann Cover   

Grading:    Record / cover

Zustandsangaben:

SS = still sealed = Platte ist noch versiegelt. Dies ist aber keine Garantie für  Pressfehlerfreiheit ! /
Record is still sealed . This is not a guarantee, that the record is free of pressing-defects

mint/m : Die Platte (bzw. Cover) ist in jeder Beziehung optisch und akustisch in einem neuwertigem Zustand /
The record/cover is in every way like new !

very good /vg = Platte ist gespielt und weist leichte Fremdgeräusche auf . Haarkratzer sind vorhanden jedoch kaum hörbar. Cover hat leichte Abnutzungsspuren /
Record is used and has slight surface noise. Slight scratches may be seen but only very hard to hear. Cover shows slight traces of wear

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