MARC BOLAN : THE SOUL SESSIONS / TWO PENNY PRINCE / KOLN 1970 - NEW AND SEALED

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* A CROWN OF DARK SWANSDOWN :KOLN GERMANY 4TH APRIL 1970  (EARS107)   * TWOPENNY PRINCE  (EARS021)MARC BOLAN PRESENTS : THE SOUL SESSIONS (Light Of Love Wax CoCD001)

 A Special bundle featuring 3 separate releases (5 discs in total) Dozens of rare, live and previously unissued Marc Bolan wonders. Special bundle price. Also features 2 rare colour collectors  postcards (not available in the shops).. 

Marc Bolan Presents The Soul Sessions (Light Of Love Wax CoCD001) - New label set up to help fund The Marc Bolan School Of Music & Film working in co-ordination with Marc's Family; Partner singer songwriter Gloria Jones and son Rolan Feld. Features unreleased tracks produced by Marc & Gloria for Gloria's own releases and her brother Richard Jones' unreleased album and for the abandoned album by T.Rex backing singer Sister Pat Hall. All tracks are different versions or completely unreleased including some recordings from Marc & Gloria's home. All tracks have been audio restored and remastered from new sources. The gate-fold sleeve package and booklet includes unseen photos from Marc's family.
In some respects this album has been 40 years in the making.. Even today it still sounds remarkably fresh and different from anything before or since.. ‘Cosmic Soul’ - (That certainly has a better ring to it than Plastic Soul)..  Bolan was trail blazing going into these sessions, and the 18 months spent pulling the majority of this together (inbetween Zinc Alloy and the Zip Gun sessions) was not only a labour of love, but the inspiration for a directional change that sadly never found it’s outlet back in 1974. Versions of many of these tracks found their way into the public arena over the past 2 decades. Firstly with a truely awful release by Edsel records ‘Marc Bolan Presents’  in the mid 90’s (utilising cassette recordings for their masters). In the past decade a great bootleg entitled ‘ Pure Magic’ gave the first indication that there were in fact better master recordings in existence. This release by Easy Action/ Light Of Love Wax Co. has pulled together (from a wide variety of sources), the 28 tracks that make up this double cd. It’s probably the closest we’re ever truely likely to get to that finished product Bolan was working on in the mid 70’s.. The album itself is also being used as a Fundraiser for the ‘Light Of Love’ Foundation to help promote and collect funds for ‘The Marc Bolan School of Music’ in Sierra Leone. 

Disc: 1
1.   Gloria Jones - I Aint Goin' Nowhere [Unreleased Broadcast Version]2.   Richard Jones - Lovin' You ( Walk Through That Door ) [Unreleased Track] 3.   Gloria Jones - Tainted Love [Unreleased Version]4.   Sister Pat Hall - Sunken Rags5.   Sister Pat Hall - Jitterbug Love - Sister Pat Hall O/T6.   Sister Pat Hall - Tell Me Now - Sister Pat Hall7.   Gloria Jones - Go Now [Single Version]8.   Sister Pat Hall - High9.   Richard Jones - Power Of Love [Unreleased Track]10. Sister Pat Hall - Sailors Of The Highway11. Sister Pat Hall - Get It On [Unreleased Track]12. Sister Pat Hall - City Port13. Sister Pat Hall - Do Your Thing14. Sister Pat Hall - Ghetto Baby Blues15. Gloria Jones - Drive Me Crazy (Disco Lady)16. Sister Pat Hall - When I Was A Child17. Richard Jones - No No No [Unreleased Track]18. Richard Jones - Pure Magic [Unreleased Track]

Disc: 2
1.   Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones - I Really Love You Babe (Intro)2.   Gloria Jones - Sailors Of The Highway3.   Sister Pat Hall - Big Black Cat4.   Gloria Jones - Tell Me Now5.   Gloria Jones - Go Now (Prepared Version For Broadcast)6.   Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones - I Really Love You Babe (Reprise)7.   Gloria Jones - Cry Baby (Piano)8.   Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones - Sailors Of The Highway (Acoustic)9.   Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones - Ghetto Baby Blue10. Marc Bolan & Gloria Jones - Sky Church Music (Alternative Version)


TYRANNOSAURUS REX LIVE AT PROGRESSIVE ROCK FESTIVAL, SPORTHALLE KOLN GERMANY 4TH APRIL 1970 : A CROWN OF DARK SWANSDOWN (EARS107)

1 : Hot Rod Mama2 : Debora3 : Pavillions Of Sun4 : One Inch Rock5 : By The Light Of The Magical Moon6 : Jewel7 : Organ Blues8 : Summertime Blues
* Transferred from the original 1/4 inch tape.** This limited edition Digi-pack CD release comes as a brand new sealed item..  (below are extracts from the albums liner notes)

Tyrannosaurus Rex live at the ‘Progressive Pop Festival’, Koln, Germany, Saturday 4th April 1970. Is one of those real gems of a recording that surfaces only occasionally, bringing in it’s slipstream a genuine glimpse of an artist undergoing a radical change of  musical direction as he metamorphised from the darling of the underground to full blown rock star and the first genuine ‘Face’ of the 1970’s.
Only six months prior to this exuberant festival performance, Bolan’s world was on the verge of caving in. An extensive (contractually obligated) six week American tour, organised by their (somewhat out of step) new American record label Blue Thumb, had turned into a full scale disaster. His relationship with Steve Took having already deteriorated to the point of no return. Primarily Took’s desire to have his own material performed and recorded as part of Tyrannosaurus Rex was never going to go down well with Mr. Bolan. As Tony Visconti put it  ‘there was only ever one star when Marc Bolan was around’. Upon completion of the last gig on 20th September in Seattle. Steve Took was history.Bolan spoke openly about the changes that were sweeping  through his world that autumn.  ‘Before we went to America we decided that we would not stay together after the tour. We had grown as much as we could with the sounds we were making. The music really wasn’t making it on stage. and I wasn’t really satisfied with what we were doing anymore. There were no bad feelings, he wanted to go in a different direction. I had to find someone I could get into a new thing with, someone who could share all the freshness and excitement with me’. That someone was Michael Norman Finn who entered Marc Bolan’s world a matter of days after the now famous advert to find a replacement for Steve Took was placed in Melody Maker. As Bolan explained ‘Had I not met Mickey, I don’t know what would have actually happened. It might have all fallen to bits. ‘Meeting Mickey was very fortuitous’ said Marc. ‘I was in a restaurant just down the road one day and a friend introduced me to him. Neither of us were sure about playing together, but we tried it out and decided it could work out. We went to stay with some friends of mine in a cottage in Wales. I just dragged Mickey away to Wales, where we spent a month letting things get together. Gradually it became very good - we spent twelve hours a day working on the music and we still rehearse every day we are not doing a gig’.The new decade got off to a very auspicious start, when they found themselves on a Live BBC in concert programme recorded on New Year’s day, for broadcast as the ‘The John Peel Sunday Show’ on 4th January.  Possibly the best of all Bolan’s BBC session performances, it showed a definite shift in musical direction.By the end of the month, Marc Bolan must have felt quite contented in that all concerns over the bands continued existence had finally been put to bed. The Beard Of Stars album  made a very respectable 21 in the UK album charts and recieved several strong reviews along with lots of healthy press interviews. It was time to hit the European festival circuit. 
Tyrannosaurus Rex were still a big draw throughout Europe and  were assured good billing for most of their performances that spring come summer. The show at the ‘Progressive Pop Festival 70 Koln’, was the first really big gig the duo had undertaken, everything until this point had been UK  clubs and theatres. The festival itself attracted several big names including : Deep Purple, Procol Harum, Arthur Brown, Coliseum, Barclay James Harvest, Soft Machine and Yes. Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared late afternoon on the second day. There really has been no recorded documents of  what in reality is ‘The breakthru period’. The closest we get to it is the performance recorded for the BBC on New Years day and compared to this performance the BBC gig was smooth, sedate and slightly slick.. Three months further down the line and the short lived duo of Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn really went for it during these shows.. In the notes accompanying the original reels for this recording, this gig is summed up perfectly as encompassing everything from tabla acidfolkfreak to electric guitar mayhem with tinges of pop thrown into the mix. The inclusion of both Jewel and Summertime Blues is definitely a sign of things to come, and Bolan’s guitar playing on Summertime Blues is quite simply blistering. Mickey Finn also deserves a lot of credit, his performances throughout 1970 were very committed and it is seriously debateable if several of the more rock orientated tracks could have happened with Steve Took still in the band.Within a matter of months sessions for the first T.Rex album were well underway. By September the bands name was officially shortened to T.Rex. and the following month ‘Ride A White Swan / Is It Love / Summertime Blues’ (Fly Bug 1) was released. The rest as they say, is history....
** Sleeve notes copyright Andrew Gardner/Easy Action Recordings 2016
Twopenny Prince (EARS021)
Finally sees the light of day after numerous delays. The wait was well and truely worthwhile. Twopenny Prince thunders along with a power and ferocity not normally associated with a Marc Bolan release and amply demonstrates that he did indeed cross over effortlessly from the three minute pop song, to greatly extended codas on tracks such as ‘Cadilac’, ‘Get It On’ and ‘Elemental Child’ (all of which come in at a weighty eight minutes plus) and pulsate with a totally different form of energy than one would normally expect from a Marc Bolan recording.Although several of the tracks featured on ‘Two Penny Prince’ have been available within ‘Bolan Circles’ for several years. This is the first time any of the material has been issued commercially and therefore by default, becomes accessible to a far wider listening audience than would have been aware of it up until now. Settle down and prepare to have your eardrums assaulted with over 100 minutes of Marc Bolan as you  have never heard him before. Spread over two scintillating discs ‘Two Penny Prince’ features Bolan alongside the classic T.Rex line up of Mickey Finn, Steve Currie and Bill Legend, performing either live in the studio, or making use of the ‘in-concert’ medium that was starting to become increasingly popular both in Europe and America by the early 1970’s. Gone from these recordings are the lush production and string arrangements of Tony Visconti. Replaced here by a very tight rhythm section and Marc Bolan bubbling over with his newly found guitar hero status. There are of course several quieter moments not least being the acoustic runs throughs of ‘Metal Guru’ and ‘Truck On (Tyke)’, as well as a dip into Bolan’s past with two live performances by Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the unique opportunity to hear one of the first ever extended studio sessions recorded by Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn after Bolan shortened the band’s name to T.Rex in the summer of 1970.  
DISC ONE :   Jeepster / Hot Love / Telegram Sam / Cadilac : Recorded live on Thursday  3rd February 1972 at Strawberry Studios, Chateau D’ Herouville, Pontoise,                Paris, France. Metal Guru / Truck On Tyke : Marc’s original acoustic demos, recorded at home in Maida Vale, London, October 1971. Buick MacKane : Recorded Wednesday 14th February 1973, Germany. Jewel / Ride A White Swan  :  Both tracks recorded, Germany, Monday 8th February 1971. Elemental Child / Summertime Blues : Recorded live, Thursday 28th January 1971 at the ‘Taverne de l’Olympia’, Paris, France. Life’s A Gas : Recorded Germany, Friday 1st October 1971. Oh Baby (Take #1) : This mega rare recording feature’s Marc’s original vocal run through of the song issued several months later by the fictitious, ‘Dib Cochran & The Earwigs’ (with Tony Visconti on lead vocals) . . .   Recorded at CTS Studios, Wembley, Middlesex, Monday March 6th 1970.Get It On : Recorded live Monday 3rd September 1973, Los Angeles,  California, USA. .Salamanda Palaganda : Performed live 26th October 1968, Paris, France.By The Light Of The Magical Moon : Recorded live Saturday 27th June, at the ‘Holland Pop Festival’, Kralingse Bos, Rotterdam, Netherlands. . .  Suneye :  The track was recorded at Marc’s home in  Maida Vale, London, July 1970.  
DISC TWO : One Inch Rock / The Children Of Rarn / The Wizard : Recorded at Trident Studios in Soho, London on Monday 6th July 1970. This incredible snapshot of the embryonic T.Rex, features multiple run throughs of early Bolan classics ‘One Inch Rock’ and ‘The Wizard’ along with a couple of unique takes on ‘The Children Of Rarn’. 
Woodland Rock : Recorded at Air Studios, Oxford Street, London  Monday 21st December 1970. This was the first ever T.Rex session to feature Bill Legend on drums. 
Marc Bolan : Guitar / Vocals / Organ / BassMickey Finn : Hand PercussionSteve Currie : BassBill Legend : DrumsSteve Peregrine Took : Percussion / Vocals (Track 1)Mary Hopkins : Backing vocals (Track 13)Jack Green : 2nd Guitar  (Track 19)Gloria Jones : Backing Vocals (Track 19)Pat Hall : Backing Vocals (Track 19)