ROY HARPER Lifemask 1973 UK HARVEST *PROMO* FOLD-OUT COVER - UNPLAYED/NEAR MINT
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56
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74
£ 56
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Mar 7, 2016
Sold Date
Feb 26, 2016
Start Date
£ 24
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ROY HARPER Lifemask 1973 UK HARVEST *PROMO* FOLD-OUT COVER - UNPLAYED/NEAR MINT
ROY HARPERLifemask
1973 UK HARVEST (SHVL 808) FIRST PRESSING
AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COPY - LOOKS UNPLAYED
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE HARVEST LABELS
MATRIX: SHVL 808 A - 5 / SHVL 808 B - 3
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/GD and 1/RH
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SOFT MATT *DEATHMASK* FOLD-OUT COVER WITH INTERNAL RECORD POCKET
GOLD “DEMONSTRATION ONLY* STAMP TO THE BACK
Lifemask was an emotional if not musical rebirth for Roy Harper, who nearly lost his life in 1972 due to a rare congenital circulatory disorder. When the album was released in early 1973, it showed Harper refining the acoustic music he had perfected on 1971's Stormcock. Some of the songs on the album previously appeared in a motion picture entitled Made, but the sound is nonetheless consistent throughout. "Highway Blues" and "South Africa" are the best-known songs on this set, and have remained concert mainstays for many years. The former is a strong opener and added a touch of synthesizer to Harper's instrumental stable, while the latter was a political comment on apartheid in the guise of a touching love song. "Little Lady" and "Bank of the Dead" (featuring Jimmy Page) are fairly similar in sound and context, but remain pleasant, if not classic, cuts anyway. The album-closing "The Lord's Prayer" is quite possibly the most confounding piece in Harper's catalog. It has all the benchmarks of one of his classics -- epic, album-side length, poetically obscure lyrics, many musical movements, and, as usual, guitar help from Jimmy Page.
Lifemask is a strong album from Harper's progressive folk period, even if it's a slight notch below its predecessor, Stormcock
Side 1:
Highway Blues
All Ireland
Little Lady
Bank Of The Dead
South Africa
Side 2:
The Lord's Prayer
LABELS: MINT
An immaculate set of labels - no spindle traces or any signs of use
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays as new throughout - there is a slight touch of interference on “South Africa” which I have heard before and is a pressing issue but lasts for a second or two only - beautiful copy which has possibly never been played and I think a better sounding one would be pretty hard to find
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
A fine example of this thin and delicate cover - some light spots to the white, evidence of label removal in the top corner and a soft crease to the left fold but nothing major - all edges are crisp and sharp and all spine text is clear and bold
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