PERRY LEOPOLD Experiment In Metaphysics LP/1970 US Acid Folk/Psych/Acid Archives

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PERRY LEOPOLD 'Experiment In Metaphysics' LP (Spain, Guerssen, Catalogue #GUESS096) Brand new/unplayed copy of superb Guerssen label LP edition of mega-rare 1970 Philadelphia, US Acid Folk masterpiece album 'Experiment In Metaphysics' by Perry Leopold. Includes a repro of a 1973 promotional flyers and an additional bonus insert with liner notes by Patrick Lundborg (Acid Archives.)

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

'First-ever official vinyl reissue. The absolute cornerstone of acid folk and psychedelic folk, 1970's Perry Leopold masterpiece still remains today as THE ONE to compare with when new psych-folk vintage records are discovered. Still no one beats him, and they probably never will. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl with newly-remastered sound. Includes a repro of a 1973 promotional flyer and an insert with liner notes by Patrick Lundborg.'

'Discovered way back in the mid-1980s, Experiment In Metaphysics is the original downer folk masterpiece, and remains a yardstick against which recent finds are measured, and usually found lacking. Recorded in an altered state of mind (presumably LSD), Leopold succeeds in creating a truly psychedelic, profound experience, using just acoustic guitar and his voice, like a Tim Hardin from the underworld. The moods shift from world-weary vagabond testimonies to heavy hallucinogen visions, and even the instrumental tracks are more psychedelic than five layers of Sgt Pepper tape loops. The term 'Acid Folk' is used to hype bad singer-songwriter music today, but Experiment In Metaphysics is one of the few records to actually live up to the term - indeed Leopold even used it on the original record label (along with suggestions to 'Smoke' and 'Drop'), and should rightly be credited as inventor of the genre. Recorded in June 1970 as a vanity project in a basement studio beneath a Philadelphia shoe store, many of the 300 copies pressed were handed out as gifts to people in the street. The original came in a plain copper cover with a small title sticker; not all copies have the sticker.' - Patrick Lundborg/Acid Archives

High-quality 180-gram vinyl pressing.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

• The Absurd Paranoid
• Cold In Philadelphia
• And Then, The Snow Came
• The 35th Of May
• Experiment In Metaphysics
• When You're Gone (Everything Goes)
• The U.S.S. Commercial

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