Lp Catapilla - Re-Release - Akarma Ak 131 - STILL SEALED

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lp Catapilla

Catapilla

Country of Release: Italy, 2000

Original Released: 1971

Label: Akarma

Catalog Number: AK 131

Barcode: 8034003291310

Folding cover/ Gatefold Sleeve: Yes/ YES

 Condition Record: mint

Condition Cover: mint

  lp Is still welded / lp is STILL SEALED !!!

(Photo by my own lp / Photo Taken From My Own Copy)

Tracks Side 1:

1. Naked Death (15:38)

2. Tumbleweed (3:54)

3. Celebrities (5:42)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Emryonic Fusion (24:08)

Lists at YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tawcauqa qa

Catapilla was A British Group Acting Short Time DuringThe Early Seventies. The Founder of Theband What saxophonist and keyboardist Robert Calvert. The band Recorded Two very interesting albums released by Vertigo. Their debut album contained A mix ofHEAVY Rock and jazz. Album Characterized, by Guitar Passages Interspertrersed with Lots Instruments Keyboards, Organ and Saxophone

The Great attraction was The vocalist Anna Meek, Has A very distinctive voice and original wayTo use it. Sometimes fragments of The group resembledThe Colosseum,VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR ,,Soft Machine andNUCLEUS .

The Flagship Track of TheFirstlp Catapilla (Vertigo 6360 029) 1971 'Is Twenty Five-Minute "Embryonic Fusion"-The quintessenceof 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-Oopt New Instrumentalists and Proceeded To Record TheSecond Album , Catapilla - "Changes" Released in 1972 Original UKFirst Pressing Vertigo 6360 074 Production: Colin Caldwell, cover art by Martin Dean,Recorded at Marquee Studios, London .. Housed inA Spectacular Die-Cut Gatefold Cover!.

Scary cover, too. A Giant Die-Cut Catterpillar Gnaws Its Way Through The Cabbage Leaves. 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 ofThe caterpillar, which is prolongued even intoTheInsideofThe Cover WhereThe Disc Has Its Place. Interesting idea!

This lp is rare and very very hard To find,OneofThe Most Mysteriousof allThe Innovative acts signed by progressive vertigo swirl label inThe Early Seventies. This Short-Lived Progressive Rock band Made to Development Impression Upon TheFaceofMUSIC Before their exit into obscurity. It's A Wonder How A Group that what so well aheadof TheirTime and who were literallyOneofThePioneers of an enttire generationofMUSIC could be so unrecognized. Now Its Time To Give Credit Were it is so right.

Plate what Curious, as debut The style Group Remained TheSame ONLY Slightly Enriched it Even Even Elementsof Psychedelia and ExperimentalMUSIC . 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 Seriesof Extended performances byThe Saxophone playingof Leader Robert Calvert (who is notTo Be confused withThe Singer and Poet Robert Calvertof Hawkwind fame). Catapilla's style veers between avant-garde jazz fusion and experimental acid rock and there is plenty of ROOMFOR experimentationOn Tracks Exorcising and Often Wordless Vocals by MeekSTILL dominateThe Soundscapes, as do calvert's ubiquitous saxes, frequentlyTwo atThe Time .

No concessions To Sales Figures Anywhere in Sight, TheMUSIC Aims at spiritual cleansing. A Lot of Echo, A Lotof Overdubs andLong ,,Long GovernThe Style. At time this leads To gaps in The tension, but when it gels it's downright chilling. Best features are The silent passages after wild orgies ofSound , that work like Like Sanctuaries after some cosmic order, likeThe endofReflections

So Noteworthy: The STRANGE Mixtureof Slow hard rock and Eastern MelodiesOn Thanks ChristFOR George, momentsof Savage Guitar Lines are Calmed by Vocals That SeemTo Float OverThe Top ofA Soothing saxophone whileThe Complexityof It all pullsYou Into another dimension.


They Both Clock in at Over Twelve Minutes Each. Regardless of The LengnthofThe songsYou Are Left WantingFOR more as well asThe Unexpected Tranquillityof The Closing Track. Unique Sounds that make FOR uneasy But RewardingLISTENING . Vocalist Anna Meek and saxophonist Robert Calvert Play Off of Each Other and Ride The ProG-Rock Roller Coasterof Ever ChangingSound . Prog-rock enthusiasts get A glimpse of where groups likePINK Floyd andROXYMUSIC Could Have Derived some ideasFrom . Meek's Eerie Vocal Rants and Calvert's Poignant and Atmospheric Saxophone Are Everything Graham Wilson (Guitar), Ralph Rolinson (Keyboards), Carl Wassard (Bass), and Brian Hanson (Drums) Needed To Launch ASound that is all at onco mysterious as it is aurally exciting.

This lp Entailed Four Ambitious Songs of Progressive Jazz-Rock Fusion ThatHelpTo lendA Hand in settingThe standardFOR what whatTo Become A new genre. The Colorful Gatefold Sleeve, which has A picture ofA Caterpillar Peeping OverA Leaf as it enjoys itsMeal , Open's and there isA Maggot squirming. This image is A point of referenceToTheMUSIC , ITS very symbol. Progressive Rock is very much Like The Process of Birth andRebirth .

The Caterpillar goes into A cocoon and emerges as A beautiful butterfly. They Couldn't Have Chosen A Better ANALOGY or IllustrationTo explainThe Musical Process. Its Time FORUs allTo investigateThe Impact that Groups Like Catapilla Has HadOnThe History and Developmentof Prog rock. Despite this, The album went almost unnotized. In part, it what going The year 1972 what full of many important worksof rock


Catapilla Did not have A suitly resilient impresario and good doctorate. To The Lack of adequate Amounts of Touring and Internal Friction inThe Group Soon LedTo ITS Dissolution. To This Lack of Proper Quantitits Concert Tours and Internal Friction inThe Group Soon LedTo ITS Dissolution. Most of The membersofThe Group LeftTheMUSIC Business and Today Their Names are known onlyToThe A staunte fans.


Robert Calvert Joined Hawkwind and FOR Many Years with Great Success in This Group, He ContinuedHIS 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 (thermockasteria.blogspot.de)

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