Procol Harum '67 1st album on DERAM mint- PROG KILLER

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Band/Record: Procol Harum - Procol Harum

Label/Matrix: US 1967 Deram  DES 18008

Condition Record/Sleeve: Mint-/EX+ (record immaculate, DREAM audio. Cover clean and unwritten, with corners only tiny "eaten", tiny aging wear)

Extra Info: Fantastic Album .. Legendary first album .... Original US 1st press LP on Deram ...Wow ... minty dream audio ... stunning copy .... RARE !!

~~ The debut album from Procol Harum was released in 1967 and is rightly praised as one of the most important proto prog albums. The inclusion of both a piano ( Gary Brooker) and an organ player ( Matthew Fisher) were something totally new at the time.

The music is as a consequence dominated by piano and especially the omnipresent organ. The distorted guitars from Robin Trower is also a great addition to Procol Harum´s sound. The vocals from Gary Brooker are really strong. He has a beautiful and powerful voice. This is not music with much challenging instrumentation, but the strong and memorable vocal lines really keeps me interested throughout the whole album. Songs like Kaleidoscope, the instrumental Repent Walpurgis and the pop/ rock evergreen A Whiter Shade of Pale all has lots of progressive promise ( I think I hear a couple of hints towards Genesis), but there´s generally a will here to make original music that is really honourable when viewed in retrospect. Note that A Whiter Shade of Pale wasn´t on the original European version of the LP which is such a shame.

The musicianship is great. Such passion is always impressive. The organ playing from Matthew Fisher is hard not to notice but I really enjoy some of the piano parts from Gary Brooker as well. This is not the tightest interplay between musicians I have heard, but they probably didn´t have much time in the studio in those days.

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