William Nowik RARE US PRIVATE ACID PROG ROCK PSYCH LP
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William Nowik – Pan Symphony In E Minor (Mango, US 1974) CONDITION: Cover: VG++ (some light ring wear, no insert) Record: VG to M- (small heat warp on lp edge causes a swish for 3+ minutes, side has a hard time staying in the groove for minute (I set my needle to 2 grams and that seemed to keep it from skipping on the warp), then has the swoosh for 2+ minutes) Well, this is the copy that seems to have started all of the interest off for this lp. I found this at a local record shop, could find any info on it so I put it up on Ebay to see what would happen. The respons was tremendous. Since then I have managed to get a couple of sealed copies. The problem with this copy is that it has the above mentioned warp (see description) Beyond the warp, the lp looks M- and plays mostly that way. This one does not have the insert. Here is the description of the album itself: Rare, privately pressed lp out of Rochester, New York. Excellent, trippy instrumental prog and psych with Pink Floyd and King Crimson leanings. Right from the start of side one (which is a side long track) you get that early Pink Floyd feel. Then the creepy electric violin comes in reminding me of Larks Tongue era King Crimson, again changing gears into heavy guitar rock not unlike some of the early 70’s heavy fuzz rock bands from the U.K.. In fact, all of side one sounds like it is from early 70’ Britain. Side two is more varied, adventurous and again, a side long track. The opening sounds similar to the Allman Brothers, then blends into an experimental prog/ free jazz, then into a prog/folk/psych wrap up. Lots of speaker to speaker effects as well. Songs include “ A Conjuration to Pan”, “Rolling to Venus Interlude”, “Burnt Offerings”, “Sky Fire”, etc. This was a very limited pressing, within the hundreds I'm told. I guess there will be write up in Acid Archives coming shortly and is being considered one of the best private press findings in many years. One of these went for $1000+ over in Europe on Ebay. No reserve. Good luck!
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