Slave - The Lover, The Madman and the Poet vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
23-SCLP 018
NOTE: These are new and unplayed, but they have small corner dings.
“Limited edition (500 copies) reissue of Slave's The Lover, The Madman And The Poet, originally released in 1970 only as an acetate.
Comes with printed cardboard sleeve and white paper non-antistatic inner sleeve. Titles and band credits are not listed on the release since the musicians were untraceable.”
“British acetate and private pressing LPs dating from 1965-78, the most valuable LPs that exist. This is the third and fourth batch in an ongoing series of over 100 scheduled super rare and unknown archive recordings of British underground LPs. All have restored audio striking a balance between cleaning up often unique yet battered original recordings and retaining the power and authenticity of the original sounds without heavy compression. Restoration by Reynolds, at craftsman level. Priced as competitively as possible to allow street level access to thousand pound prog behemoths.
Slow, echo-laden and atmospheric, using a psyched out twangy guitar and Doors-esque vocals intoning strange and twisted tales: a depressed Jim Morrison colliding with Hank Marvin and Lord Byron in a sonic suicide pact of downer psych prog mystery.
A few sleeve-less copies of Slaves sole Deroy LP exist, but are completely devoid of information and thus no one has been able to find out anything about the band.
Seelie Court believes it to be connected to 9.30 Fly but they deny involvement, although Barbara Wainwright did concede that "it does sound a bit like us”.”
“A legendary Deroy classic...well, classic among the few wealthy record collectors who were able to hear it after punching a hole through their wallets. This rare artifact of song survived 50 odd years with only 99 discs to carry it, and I am glad it did. This is a great look into the UK concept album scene of about 69-75. Listening to it is like skipping through an incredible movie and only hearing snippets of dialogue or some action. And to aid this mysterious aspect, we have strange cryptic lyrics and an absence of track titles. And not to mention the most obvious, we don't know who made the damn thing! So make of "Lover, Madman, Poet" what you will, piecing together your own concept album...but at the very least you'll agree, it's a good one.”-Discogs
- LabelSeelie Court
- UPC5033281011408