RARE 1970 STRAIGHT WHITE LBL PROMO TIM BUCKLEY STARSAILOR Avant Psych Folk

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                                          TOP COPY!

                               WHITE PROMO LABEL

 1970 CLEAN ORIGINAL ON THE STRAIGHT RECORDS LABEL

                     TIM BUCKLEY

                       STARSAILOR

\                                         USA - STRAIGHT RECORDS - WS 1881((White Promo Label))

TOP COPY MINTY CLEAN VINYL = 41 year old highly rated collectible...with the original STRAIGHT Records printed inner sleeve

RARE ADVANCE RELEASE: WHITE LABEL PROMO in TOP COPY shape (see details below)

Sought after original 1970 first pressing on Frank Zappa's old and collected STRAIGHT RECORDS label...

Tim Buckley's Big Experiment is the commotion of "Trout Mask Replica" with the disposition of "Astral Weeks."
This may be one of the most polarizing records of all time, certainly one of the most uncompromising ever by an artist who was once considered a folk singer/songwriter.

Part of the reason for this confusion is the fact that Starsailor comes off as simultaneously academic and fearlessly experimental, almost the rock equivalent to Stockhausen or the more experimental Mingus albums. The "songs" are studies in voice, and as such the lyrics are largely superfluous, a point further indicated by the fact that longtime lyricist Larry Beckett co-wrote less than half of the songs.

The experiments on the first side of Lorca give you a good indication of what's going on in the first 2 songs here. Both have the same meandering instrumentation combined with slow, sonorous vocal intonations that create a dissonant nightmare. Imagine Ornette Coleman also using his voice as an instrument and you get the picture. If that didn't make you turn off your record player, "Monterey" might. It seems a bit more structured and uptempo due to Lee Underwood's repeated guitar figure and the constant high-hat taps but it's actually quite a languid song, though less so than the previous songs. Here is where the vocals really come off the rails, with swooping dissonance and bleating noises. It's a brilliant track, quite difficult to warm to, but powerfully experimental. As an oasis in your experimental desert, Tim offers you the brief, jaunty, perfect pop of "Moulin Rouge". It's intent is clear, "Please don't run away yet! You still have like 2/3 of an album to go!" This is followed by the most famous track on the album, "Song to the Siren", a holdover from 1968. The original acoustic version he performed on the last episode of the Monkees series somewhat resembled his other 68 material, but here the flanged guitar and treated background vocals create a song that really doesn't sound like it belongs anywhere in Tim Buckley's discography. The vocal is one of the most emotive of his career.

Side 2 has some more uptempo songs to keep the pace moving, but it also has the album's most experimental track in the title track. Composed entirely of Tim's synthesized vocals, noise just weaves in and out with only snatches of intelligible lyrics here and there. It's an awesome track. Someone once said that Tim Buckley did for the voice what Jimi Hendrix did for the guitar, and here is the clearest example. Starsailor was more than a commercial failure; after listening to this album, there were probably some consumers that just stopped buying music forever. They wanted to hear folksongs and they got some sort of hazy, sadistic nightmare. Tim continued his streak of not staying in any style long enough for you to figure it out by jumping head first into White Sex Funk, with decidedly mixed (and frequently disturbing) results.

A:

Come Here Woman

4:09

I Woke Up

4:02

Monterey

4:30

Moulin Rouge

1:57

Song to the Siren

3:20

B:

Jungle Fire

4:42

Starsailor

4:36

The Healing Festival

3:16

Down by the Borderline

5:22

CONDITION: The Cover: is solid... with original colors, M- front cover and VG++ back cover (bottom of back cover slick is frayed, overall minor. Nothing much of wear and overall quite highly collectible =  has no split seams, no bends, no writing...

The Vinyl: is all glossy shiny clean on both sides, TOP CLEAN M- with clean white promo Straight Records labels

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record