MARK WIRTZ - MOOD MOSAIC RARE UK POPSIKE PSYCH 1967
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MARK WIRTZ – Mood mosaic (1967)
12" LP COLUMBIA STUDIO 2 STEREO YAX 3330 RARE ORIGINAL UK STEREO ISSUE
Mark Wirtz is an Alsatian born producer of pop records. His most famous output being from the mid to late 1960s, when he worked at Abbey Road Studios alongside Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, under contract to EMI. Wirtz is chiefly known for the never-completed "A Teenage Opera" concept album, from which only four songs were ever finished before a concerned EMI pulled the plug on the project.
His signature style has been described by Mojo magazine as "Phil Spector scoring Camberwick Green", a sound most perfectly encapsulated on Wirtz's masterpiece, "Excerpt From A Teenage Opera". This 1967 hit single is a densely orchestrated psychedelic marvel, which tells the whimsical and sad tale of an old man ("Grocer Jack"), who dies unappreciated, except by the children who loved him and miss him. The completed Teenage Opera songs all feature similar themes, usually based around elderly craftsmen carrying on with their outdated traditions (a weatherman, a steam train driver) to the ambivalence - and sometimes ridicule - of the community. The project has been likened to a British Smile, due largely to its near mythical status as a "lost" masterwork, but also because of the singularity of its creator's strange and magical vision.
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COVER: VG+
RECORD: VG++
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