COMUS First Utterance V Rare Orig UK 1971 Orange Dawn LP Acid Freak Folk Psych
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Description
Comus
First Utterance
Rare Original UK LP released on Dawn Records in 1971. 1st UK pressing on the Orange Dawn label, comes in a gatefold sleeve complete with insert.
Matrix No's
Side One - DNLS 3019A-3 *T
Side Two - DNLS 3019 B-3 *T
Comus' first album contains an imaginative if elusive brand of experimental folk-rock, with a tense and sometimes distressed vibe. Although there are elements of traditional British folk music, there's an edginess to the songwriting and arrangements that would be entirely alien in a Fairport Convention or Pentangle disc. At times, this straddles the border between folk-rock and the kind of songs you'd expect to be sung at a witches' brew fest, the haunting supernatural atmosphere enhanced by bursts of what sound like a theramin-like violin, hand drums, flute, oboe, ghostly female backup vocals, and detours into almost tribal rhythms. All of this might be making the album sound more attractive than it is; the songs are extremely elongated and fragmented, and the male vocals often have a grating munchkin-like quality, sometimes sounding like a wizened Marc Bolan. The lyrics are impenetrable musings, mixing pastoral scenes of nature with images of gore, torture, madness, and even rape, like particularly disturbing myths being set to music. It's been reissued on CD, but here's one case where you might want to get the LP reissue (on Get Back) instead, as it comes with a bonus 12" of three songs in a similar vein as their rare 1971 EP.
Track Listing
Side One
1 Diana 4:28
2 The Herald 5:30
3 Drip Drip 11:35
Side Two
1 Song To Comus 7:25
2 The Bite 6:20
3 Bitten 0:30
4 The Prisoner 6:20
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Released on Dawn Records in 1971
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Catalogue Number DNLS 3019
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Record is in Fair condition (surface marking and scratches, there are a few feelable scratches and a nasty mark at the end of side one, see pictures, this will play with surface noise and pops and may jump on some players)
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Sleeve is in Vg- condition Some dirty marking and shelf wear)
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