Kestrel - deleted LP, `Factory Sample', Mellotron crazy
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Description
ORIGINAL COPY .
UK PRESSING.
Label : Cube Records
Catalogue No: HIFLY 19
Released 1975
Stereo
Sleeve Condition : VERY GOOD. Light edge and corner rubs. Light circular mark to front and rear.
Vinyl Condition : EXCELLENT. Plays very well, no major faults, no surface noise, the lightest dust crackles
Label Condition : EXCELLENT. The label is marked `Factory sample not for sale' but it looks a bit too good and I suggest this is a gag. Does you lot know?
Whilst briefly reissued in Japan in 2000, this album is deleted and unavailable.
Biography
by Eugene Chadbourne
There is a certain segment of the listening public that remains fascinated with the Mellotron, an electronic keyboard that for a short period in the '70s was just about as popular on hit records as the sitar, which is saying a lot. Call them mello-dramatic, these listeners go to great lengths to complete their Mellotron archive. The process, like the lightning storm that Dr. Frankenstein latched onto, creates a kind of eternal life for groups such as Kestrel, a once forgotten Newcastle quintet that recorded a single self-titled album in 1973, originally released on Decca's Cube imprint the following year.
While John Cook was the featured fellow-tron on the Mellotron, synthesizer, and other electronic keyboards, guitarist Dave Black was the Kestrel member with the most active career in rock music. Continuing to name bands after birds, Black was back with Goldie a few years later; the group scored a hit single with "Making Up Again" in 1978. Several former members of Kestrel were involved in this combo. In between, Black increased his visibility by touring with David Bowie's Spiders from Mars band in 1975. For nearly a decade beginning in 1980, Black concentrated on a new group called, or rather numbered, 747, then began a solo career as well as a sideman stint in the Brendan Healy Band.
TRACKLIST
- The acrobat
- Wind Cloud
- I believe in you
- Last request
- In the war
- Take it away
- End of the affair
- August Carol
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On 15-Jan-05 at 12:45:35 GMT, seller added the following information: I'm now pretty certain that this is a `factory sample' of the original LP. I can mail anyone interested a scan of the label on the other side, which shows the correct catalogue number stamped in blue on the sample label. The matrix numbers in the runoff groove are also correct for the original LP. If anyone can oblige me with a scan of the usual label i'd be pleased, but I think now that this `factory only sample'is an even rarer example - propably the only one - of this scarce LP.
