FOREVER AMBER - THE LOVE CYCLE 1969 UK PSYCH POP w/ INSERT GUERSSEN SEALED LP

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FOREVER AMBER – The Love Cycle. Guerssen GUESS 164. Spanish release. FACTORY SEALED NEW VINYL RECORD ALBUM. First issued in 1969 in a very limited mono edition. This issue 2020, in mono. Includes a color insert with rare photos and details liner notes by David Wells and comes in a late 60s style jacket with the flaps on the outside with the pocket opening along the top edge; featuring the original artwork. MUSICIANS:  Michael Richardson (vocals), Anthony Mumford (bass, vocals), Richard Lane (lead guitar, vocals), Christopher Jones (rhythm guitar, vocals), Christopher Parren (electric organ, piano, Harpsichord, vocals), Barry Broad (drums), and John M. Hudson (piano, electric Harpsichord, vocal, all words and music.

TRACKS:

SIDE ONE:

The Meeting

01)    Me Oh My

02)    Silly Sunshine

The Talking

03)    Bits Of Your Life, Bits Of My Life

04)    For A Very Special Person

05)    The Dreamer Flies Back

06)    Misunderstood

07)    Better Things Are Bound To Come

The Walk Home

08)    On A Night In Winter

SIDE TWO:

The Joy

01)    On To Of My Own Special Mountain

02)    Mary (The Painter)

03)    All The Colours Of My Book

The Doubt

04)    Going Away Again

The Sorrow

05)    A Chance To Be Free

The Scorn

06)    I See You As You Used To Be

The Grief

07)    Letters From Her

08)    My Friend

DESCRIPTION:  A Holy Grail item for psychedelic pop aficionados, Forever Amber’s The Love Cycle is, along with Dark and the first Complex album, is one of a triumvirate of must-have private pressings from the UK. Sounding like a blend of Pet Sounds and Odessey & Oracle but with a charming, homemade, lo-fi vibe, The Love Cycle was a concept album masterminded by talented songwriter / arranger John M. Hudson (a kind of Brian Wilson figure), who found in Cambridge band Forever Amber the perfect vehicle for his songwriting ideas. The Love Cycle was recorded in the summer of 1968 at a makeshift studio, located in the basement of a music shop. Consisting of a song-suite revolving around the meeting, courtship, and break-up of a young couple, the result was a stunning album filled with heavenly vocal harmonies, electric harpsichord, and memorable hooks, including some intense psychedelic moments (the heavy phasing of The Dreamer Flies Back and more). Released in 1969 as a private edition of 99 copies, The Love Cycle remained buried until its discovery in the late 80s by psychedelic collectors. Bootlegged several times, the first official reissue came in 2007 thanks to David Wells / Tenth Planet (who also wrote the liner-notes for this edition). Out of print for several years, don’t miss it this time around.

“One of the dozen best British pop albums of the late Sixties” – Mojo

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