LP Catapilla Changes - Re-Release - Akarma Ak 132 - Still Sealed
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LP Catapilla Changes - Re-Release - Akarma Ak 132 - Still Sealed
The description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.LP CATAPILLA
Changes
Country of release: Italy, 2000
Original released: 1972
Label: Akarma
Catalogue number: AK 132
Bar code: 8034003291327
Gatefold sleeve/gatefold sleeve: Yes/Yes
(Gimmick - cover)
Condition Record: MINT
Condition cover: MINT
LP is still sealed / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!
(Photo from my own LP / Photo taken from my own copy)
Tracks side 1:
1. Reflections (12:14)
2. Charing Cross (6:48)
Tracks side 2:
1 thank Christ for George (12:11)
2. It could only happen to me (6:56)
List at YouTube:
https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=LZ14YdL7z_o&list=PL81112BD5FC108E34
The great attraction what the vocalist Anna Meek, has a very distinctive voice and original way to use of it sometimes fragme agent of the group resembled the Colosseum, van der Graaf Generator, soft machine and nucleus.
The flagship of the first LP Catapilla track (Vertigo 6360 029) 1971' is twenty-five-minute "embryonic fusion" - the fifth ssence of style group, pure poetry progressive rock.
After recording their debut album some musicians left the band. Other members-founders Robert Calvert and Anna Meek, Graham Wilson co-opt new instrumentalists and proceeded to record the second album Catapilla - "Changes" released in 1972 original UK first pressing Vertigo 6360 074 production: Colin Caldwell, cover art by Martin Dean, Restringsd at marquee Studios, London... housed in a spectacular die-cut gatefold cover!.
Scary cover, too. A giant catterpillar gnaws its way through the cabbage leaves die-cut. Will they come for you too? The lettering is perhaps a bit too tolerantly chosen. Too much trouble to design your own letters? The inside shows the backside of the caterpillar, which is prolongued even into the inside of the cover where the disc has its place. Interesting idea!
This LP is rare and very very hard to find, one of the most mysterious of all the innovative acts signed by progressive shipping TIGO swirl label in the early seam. This short-lived-progressive rock band made of unforgettable impression upon the face of music before their exit into obsc urity. It's a wonder how a group that what so well ahead of their time and who were literally one of the pioneers of to entire generation of music could be so unrecognized. Now its time to give credit were it is so rightfully due.
Plate what's so curious, debut style as the group remained the same only slightly enriched it even elements of psychedelia and experimental music. It features the powerful vocals of Anna Meek that have been variously described by critics as 'elegant' and even 'witch-like'.
Her voice is complemented on a series of extended performances by the saxophone playing of leader Robert Calvert (who is n) OT to be Charles with the singer and poet Robert Calvert of Hawkwind fame). Catapilla's style veers between avant-garde jazz fusion and experimental acid rock and there is plenty of room for experimentation on tracks exorcising and often wordless vocals by meek still dominate the soundscapes, as do Calvert's ubiquitous saxes, frequently two at the time.
No concessions to sales figures anywhere in sight, the music aims at spiritual cleansing. A lot of echo, a lot of overdubs and long, long tracks govern the style. At times this leads to gaps in the tension, but when it gels it's downright make. Best features are the silent passages after wild orgies of sound, that work like sanctuaries after some cosmic ordeal, like the end of reflections
So noteworthy: the strange mixture of slow hard - rock and Eastern melodies on thank Christ for George, moments of savage guitar lines are calmed by vocals that seem to float over the top of a soothing saxophone while the complexity of it all p ulls you into another dimension.
They both clock in at over twelve minutes each. Regardless of the length of the songs you are left wanting for more, as well as the unexpected tranquillity of the closing track. Unique sounds that make for uneasy but rewarding listening. Vocalist Anna Meek and saxophonist Robert Calvert play off of each other and ride the prog - rock roller coaster of ever changing sound. Prog-rock enthusiasts get a glimpse of where groups like Pink Floyd and Roxy Music could have derived some ideas from. Meek's eerie vocal rants and Calvert's poignant and atmospheric saxophones are everything Graham Wilson (guitar), Ralph Rolinson (keyboards) and Carl Wassard (bass), and Brian Hanson (drums) needed to launch a sound is all at once mysterious as it is aurally exciting.
This LP entailed four ambitious songs of progressive jazz - rock fusion that help to lend a hand in setting the standard for What what to become a new genre. The colorful gatefold sleeve, which has a picture of a caterpillar peeping over a leaf as it enjoys its meal. opens and there is a maggot squirming. This image is a point of reference to the music, its very symbolic. Progressive rock is very much like the process of birth and rebirth.
The caterpillar goes into a cocoon and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. They couldn't have chosen a better analogy or illustration to explain the musical process. Its time for US all to investigate the impact that groups like Catapilla has had on the history and development of prog-ro CK. Despite this, the album went almost unnoticed. In part, it what because the year 1972 what full of many important works of rock
Catapilla did not have a suitably resilient impresario and good promotion. To the lack of adequate amounts of touring and internal friction in the group soon led to its dissolution. To this tours and internal lacquer dissolution friction in the group soon led of proper quanties concert to its. Most of the members of the group left the music business and today their names are known only to the a staunch fans.
Robert Calvert joined Hawkwind, and for many years with great success in this group, he continued his musical career. The fact remains that Catapilla, is more appreciated team today – over 40 years after its debut, than in the years of its activity.
by Adamus67 (therockasteria.blogspot.de)
Brian Hanson - drums
Carl Wassard – electric bass
Graham Wilson - guitar
Ralph Rolinson – organ, electric piano
Robert Calvert – saxophone
Anna meek – vocals
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Musikgruppe CATAPILLA Format Album Plattengröße LP (12 Inch) Herstellungsland und -region Italien Genre Rock EAN 8034003291327 Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min Subgenre Progressive Rock, Jazz-Rock Erscheinungsjahr 1972 / 2000
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