PEARLS BEFORE SWINE BALAKLAVA ESP RARE POSTER INSERT NICE 1968
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Here is an EXCELLENT! copy of the CLASSIC LP from PEARLS BEFORE SWINE titled BALAKLAVA. It is an US pressing on the ESP-DISK label, with the catalog #1075 in STEREO sound. This LP was originally released in 1968. The vinyl is in NEAR MINT MINUS! condition, shiny and black and should have excellent playback. It comes with the RARE! “THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS” POSTER and LYRICS INSERTS! The original cardboard cover is in EXCELLENT MINUS! condition with some wear to rear cover and some edge and corner wear. It is an EXCELLENT! copy of this LP from PEARLS BEFORE SWINE for you to own. It is an opportunity to purchase this LP in this condition. It’s a true gem for the PSYCH / GARAGE / FOLK-ROCK collector! Email me with any questions and be sure to look at the pic’s. I DO NOT ACCEPT BIDS FROM OR MAIL TO SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, ITALY & OTHER COUNTRIES. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING! International bidders can email me for shipping rates. Thanks for Looking & Good Luck!
Music Review from AllMusic.com by Peter Kurtz
A record that virtually defies categorization, Pearls Before Swine's 1968 epic Balaklava is the near-brilliant follow-up to One Nation Underground. Intended as a defiant condemnation of the Vietnam War, it doesn't offer anthemic, fist-pounding protest songs. Instead, Rapp vented his anger through surrealist poetry, irony, and historical reference: Balaklava was the 1854 Crimean War battle that inspired Alfred, Lord Tennyson to write his epic The Charge of the Light Brigade; in reality, the "Charge" was a senseless military action that killed scores of British soldiers. Balaklava begins with "Trumpeter Landfrey," an 1880's recording of the actual voice and bugle charge of the man who sounded the charge at Balaklava. It makes the transition into "Translucent Carriages," a mix of acoustic guitars, a basic vocal, and ghostly narration ("Jesus raised the dead...but who will raise the living?"), all the more stunning. "Images of April" continues the mystical feel, combining flutes, cricket chirps, and frog croaks for a nether-worldly effect. Rapp virtually cries "I Saw the World," backed by a powerful string arrangement that makes the song even more impassioned. Like One Nation Underground, Balaklava is somewhat unfocused: "There Was a Man" is a little too Dylan-esque, and Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" detracts from Rapp's compositions. Unfortunately, the record closes with "Ring Thing," a morbid piece that refers to Tolkien's famous Lord of the Rings trilogy. Still, this is superb psychedelic music, successfully merging exotic instruments like marimba, clavinet, French horn, and swinehorn with Rapp's unique lisping vocals. But Balaklava isn't just acid-trip background music. It's probably the best example of what Rapp calls "constructive melancholy" a combination of the real with the surreal, and it's indispensable to any serious '60s rock collection.
