Sealed LP: Seventh Wave: Psi-Fi

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Seventh Wave: Psi-Fi
FACTORY SEALED LP Format: Album
Country: U.S.A.
Record Company & Release Number: Janus: JXS-7021
Original release date: 1975
Bar Code: NONE Condition of the cover: Mint
Condition of this Album: Sealed - Assumed Mint
My inventory number: 209634A
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 1 ounces
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Songs

• Return to Foreverland
• Roads to Rome
• Manifestations
• Loved by You
• Only the Beginning
• Aether Anthem
• Astral Animal
• Tooto
• Camera Obscura
• Star Palace of the Sombre Warrior

• Kieran O'Connor: Percussion, Drums, Vocals
• Neil Richmond: Producer
• Tony Utah: Percussion
• Tony Uter: Percussion
• Chris Amson: Sequencing
• John Pasche: Design
• Gull Graphics: Design
• Phil Jude: Photography
• T&S: Artwork
• Seventh Wave: Main Performer
• Chris Anson: Synthesizer
• Hugh Banton: Organ, Mellophonius, Synthesizer, Keyboards
• Steve Cook: Bass, Bass (Electric), Double Bass
• Tony Elliot: Percussion, Bongos
• Ken Elliott: Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals, Percussion
• Brian Gould: Organ, Keyboards, Strings
• Pepi Lemer: Vocals
• Pete Lemer: Synthesizer, Keyboards, Piano

A leap forward from their debut, this album shows the duo taking on extended song structures and a more varied and much improved vocal style. At times the material sounds like a precursor to the Buggles, as in the slick synths and harmonized vocals of the opening track, "Return to Foreverland." Their better material comes late in the album, though, with Elliot's writhing, serpentine sibilance in "Astral Animal," and the bubbling synth and Spanish percussion of the instrumental "El Tooto." The best is saved for last, with the closing epics "Camera Obscura" and "Star Palace of the Sombre Warrior." The latter's somber arrangement -- of synths, spoken word, and choir voices -- breaks unexpectedly into a lovely moment of grace, where there's nothing but a ticking clock and a music box. ~ Paul Collins, All Music Guide

Formed by Kieran O'Connor and Ken Elliott after the dissolution of the British progressive band Second Hand, Seventh Wave is an early example of a synth duo, a pop configuration that was to loom large in the 1980s. They released two albums in quick succession in the mid-70s, on which they showed a certain instrumental fecundity. Elliott's tools were a veritable catalogue of 70s synth technology (ARP, clavinet, Moog, Crumar strings, Mellotron), while O'Connor showed a distinct orchestral bent in his array of perucssion instruments. While their debut struck an uneasy balance between pop-rock and prog synth, they cultivated the latter influence more successfully on their next release. Both albums have been rereleased on CD, allowing a glimpse at an interesting, if lesser known, stab at early synth rock.

This record came from a record store called "Phantasmagoria" which was located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Phantasmagoria went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory some years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua.

Phantasmagoria used round colored stickers to indicate the price of the albums. They had a sign on the wall with the color sticker combinations for the customers to use so they knew the price of the albums. Most of the albums still have these stickers on them, and in some rare cases, the stickers are written on. Some of the records have prices on them. This is the price you would have paid for the record in 1978 if you would have bought it at Phantasmagoria. Please don't confuse these prices with their current value.

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