SAMURAI Kappa LP JAPAN 1971 ORIG PRESS PROG PSYCH RARE w/ Insert PHILIPS FX-8511

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SAMURAI: “S/T”

LABEL: PHILIPS

Label Number: FX-8511

- BLOODY RARE 1st ORIGINAL JAPAN PRESS released in 1971!!!!

- Comes housed in first press issue only gatefold jacket

- Comes with always missing insert

- Great condition of mega rare heavy psych/ prog LP

GRADING:

LP Record Set: Side A is visually Excellent with a few faint sleeve lines visible under bright light / and Side B is VG++ due one clearly visible mark on Side B – but plays solid EX

Gatefold Jacket: Excellent, only some faint mildew spots visible on the white parts of the front & minimal wear

Insert: Excellent

Some words on this issue: SAMURAI: “Kappa” (Philips – FX-8511) First original pressing, it has been a while since I could score an original, these babies getting scarcer by the second. The fist record to see the light under Miki Curtis new born Samurai banner, originally released on April 1971. After having played all over the hotel lounge scene during the mid and late sixties, Mickey Curtis and his samurai band returned home, disbanded and disintegrated only to rise as a phoenix out of their ashes, be it in a slightly altered form, both music wise and member wise. So although two lounge albums appeared under the Samurai banner previously, one can safely state that this was their debut as a group merging hard rock, jazzy moves, organ driven swirling psych and prog rocking dementia into one coherent and addictive sonic wash. To put it very bluntly, side one can be considered the “song side” although that is in a way an overstatement ‘cause the band mainly exploits the word “song” to embark on freefalling spun out excursions into the darkest corners of your perverted mind. The second side is totally instrumental and swings in between freak-out acidic jams towards tribal percussive driven ethereal freeform evocative music. Juggernaut brooding organ riffage fuses with heavy amplified rock moves that at times even approaches Sabbath levels of intensity. Just massive and one of the cornerstones within the early seventies Japanese psych pantheon. Totally essential.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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