Capability Brown – From Scratch

£ 22

$ 29

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Nov 9, 2011 Sold Date

Nov 2, 2011 Start Date

£ 10 Start price

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Capability Brown – From Scratch

Sextet Capability Brown were quintessentially multi-instrumentalists that could whip up CSN harmonies with the slightest of ease.

Capability Brown had and still have a cult following in UK music history as a "progressive" band, ultimately based on an outstanding piece from their second album, Voice. But largely their range covered mainstream pop music, treated in an "arty", alternative fashion. The band was a six-piece in which everyone sang and played instruments. The line-up consisted of Tony Ferguson (guitar, bass), Dave Nevin (keyboards, guitar, bass), Kenny Rowe (bass, percussion), Grahame White (guitar, lute, balalaika, keyboards), Joe Williams (percussion) and Roger Willis (drums, keyboards).

Ferguson and Nevin wrote the majority of the band’s material, and the band also excelled in covers of obscure material (Rare Bird’s Beautiful Scarlet and Redman, Argent’s Liar, Affinity’s I Am And So Are You and Steely Dan’s Midnight Cruiser).

Capability Brown’s forte was vocalizing. Together they sounded not unlike The Association or Queen: a massed choir of voices, ranging from baritone to high clean falsettos. Their first album, From Scratch, which included Liar, was average and unexceptional. The second album Voice, released in 1973, was their claim to fame, incorporating an over-20-minute richly melodic piece called Circumstances (In Love, Past, Present, Future Meet) — a stunning piece of music incorporating keyboards, a cappela voices, synthesizers and mellotrons, solo vocals, delicate harpsichord-like acoustic guitar sections, powerful electric guitar chords and massed vocal choirs.

This 1972 Charisma LP CAS 1056 with the matrix CAS 1056 A-1U on side 01 and CAS 1056 B-1U on side 02 (pink scroll label)is in excellent condition although it does bear some evidence of being played (surface marks)
The sleeve is also in excellent condition ...
The spine is firm and 100% readable.

Side 1

A1 Beautiful Scarlet 4:55
A2 Do You Believe 4:30
A3 The Band 3:42
A4 Garden 3:24
A5 Liar 7:15

Side 2

B1 No Range 4:08
B2 I Will Be There 3:26
B3 Redman 3:10
B4 Day In Day Out 3:51
B5 Sole Survivor 9:48

I am also selling Capability Brown - Voice

I am not a vinyl dealer I am a collector and many of my LPs were bought by myself from new.

EXCELLENT:
The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality.
The cover and packaging might have slight wear and/or creasing.

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